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  • Focus: Scottish Traditional Music

    by Simon McKerrell ...
    Series series Focus on World Music Series
    Focus: Scottish Traditional Music engages methods from ethnomusicology, popular music studies, cultural studies, and media studies to explain how complex Scottish identities and culture are constructed in the traditional music and culture of Scotland. This book examines Scottish music through their social and performative contexts, outlining vocal traditions such as lullabies, mining songs, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Music as Multimodal Discourse

    Semiotics, Power and Protest

    Edited by Dr Lyndon C. S. Way, Simon McKerrell ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    We communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course, music. Music has traditionally been viewed as a separate object that we can isolate, discuss, perform and listen to. However, much of music's power lies in its use as multimodal communication. It is not just lyrics which lend songs their meaning, but images and musical ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Understanding Scotland Musically

    Folk, Tradition and Policy

    Edited by Simon McKerrell, Gary West ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    Scottish traditional music has been through a successful revival in the mid-twentieth century and has now entered a professionalised and public space. Devolution in the UK and the surge of political debate surrounding the independence referendum in Scotland in 2014 led to a greater scrutiny of regional and national identities within the UK, set within the wider context of cultural globalisation. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Highland Homecomings

    Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora

    by Paul Basu ...
    The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness.With an interdisciplinary approach, speaking to current themes in anthropology, archaeology, history, historical geography, cultural studies, migration studies, tourism studies, Scottish ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • New View of the Irish Language

    Edited by Caoilfhionn Nic Phaidin ...
    The 1871 census came to the stark conclusion that 'within relatively few years' Irish would cease to exist. Yet, over a century later, Irish became the twenty-third officially recognized language of the European Union in 2007. To believe the census returns of recent years, Irish is in a state of rude health. But is this true when half a million people claim to speak Irish, but seldom actually ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • A Waxing Moon

    The Modern Gaelic Revival

    by Roger Hutchinson ...
    Thirty years ago, the Gaelic language and culture which had been eminent in Scotland for 1,300 years seemed to be in the final stages of a 200-year terminal decline. The number of Gaelic speakers in Scotland had fallen tenfold over the previous century. The language itself was commonplace only in the scattered communities of the north-west Highlands and Hebrides.By the early years of the 21st ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Music and Politics

    by John Street ...
    It is common to hear talk of how music can inspire crowds, move individuals and mobilise movements. We know too of how governments can live in fear of its effects, censor its sounds and imprison its creators. At the same time, there are other governments that use music for propaganda or for torture. All of these examples speak to the idea of music's political importance. But while we may share ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Voicing Scotland

    Folk, Culture, Nation

    by Gary West ...
    Voicing Scotland takes the reader on a discovery tour through Scotland's traditional music and song culture, past and present. West unravels the strings that link many of our contemporary musicians, singers and poets with those of the past, offering up to our ears these voices which deserve to be more loudly heard. What do they say to us in the 21st Century? What is the role of tradition in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Celtic Modern

    Music at the Global Fringe

    Edited by Martin Stokes, Philip V. Bohlman ...
    Series series Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
    The study of 'Celtic' culture has been locked within modern nationalist paradigms, shaped by contemporary media, tourism, and labor migration. Celtic Modern collects critical essays on the global circulation of Celtic music, and the place of music in the construction of Celtic 'Imaginaries'. It provides detailed case studies of the global dimensions of Celtic music in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Bright Star of the West

    Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man

    by Sean Williams, Lillis Ó Laoire ...
    Series series American Musicspheres
    Bright Star of the West examines the life, repertoire, and influence of Ireland's greatest sean-nos (old-style) singer, Joe Heaney (1919-1984). Best known for popularing this form of Gaelic a cappella folk song in the United States, authors Sean Williams and Lillis Ó Laoire reveal the ways in which Heaney's life story demonstrates the intertwining of music with political memory and cultural ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Celts in the Americas

    Edited by Michael Newton ...
    Celtic-speaking peoples of Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Scottish Highlands and Wales played a vital role in the history of Europe and the Americas. Immigrant Celtic communities enjoyed many significant accomplishments explored in this volume. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Hidden Musicians

    Music-Making in an English Town

    by Ruth Finnegan ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    A landmark in the study of music and culture, this acclaimed volume documents the remarkable scope of amateur music-making in the English town of Milton Keynes. It presents in vivid detail the contrasting yet overlapping worlds of classical orchestras, church choirs, brass bands, amateur operatic societies, and amateur bands playing jazz, rock, folk, and country. Notable for its contribution to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD