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Focus: Scottish Traditional Music (Focus on World Music Series)

Simon McKerrell

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Description: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, Scottish ballads, herding songs, and protest songs as well as instrumental traditions such as fiddle music, country dances, and informal evening pub sessions. Case studies explore the key ideas in understanding Scotland musically by exploring ethnicity, Britishness, belonging, politics, transmission and performance, positioning the cultural identity of Scotland within the United Kingdom.Visit the author's companion website at http://www.scottishtraditionalmusic.org/ for additional resources.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Focus: Scottish Traditional Music (Focus on World Music Series). To get started finding Focus: Scottish Traditional Music (Focus on World Music Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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, Scottish ballads, herding songs, and protest songs as well as instrumental traditions such as fiddle music, country dances, and informal evening pub sessions. Case studies explore the key ideas in understanding Scotland musically by exploring ethnicity, Britishness, belonging, politics, transmission and performance, positioning the cultural identity of Scotland within the United Kingdom.Visit the author's companion website at http://www.scottishtraditionalmusic.org/ for additional resources.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Focus: Scottish Traditional Music (Focus on World Music Series). To get started finding Focus: Scottish Traditional Music (Focus on World Music Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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