Focus
Subtitle: Scottish traditional music
By: Simon McKerrell
Series: Focus on world music; Focus on world music
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780415741927; 9780415741934
Subjects: Textbooks; Folk music; History and criticism; Music; Ethnomusicology
Other titles: Scottish traditional music
Notes: Companion website includes select audio examples of traditional and contemporary Scottish music at home and abroad along with web links for further research.

"Visit the companion website"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-167) and index.
Table of contents: title: The social life of Scottish traditional music. Introduction ; The social life of Scottish traditional music ; Auld lang syne; title: Scottish traditional music : politics, people and place. The politics of Scottish traditional music ; The people of Scottish traditional music ; The place of Scottish traditional music; title: Theorising Scottish traditional music. Mediatisation of Scottish music ; Singing our difference : the multimodal performance of UK alterity and otherness in Scottish traditional song ; Theorising Scottish musical structure : the notes of tradition.