Reviews – Page 2 – Soundyngs

19th century theatre bill showing a man in tights, juggling, with the Glasgow Adelphi theatre in the background

Review: The Life of a Showman: David Prince Miller

30 October 202316 October 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Review: The Life of a Showman: David Prince Miller A review is normally of a new book, but in this … Read more

window on ruined church with sky and clouds

Review: Window to the West: Culture and Environment in the Scottish Gàidhealtachd

23 August 202321 August 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: cover art from Window to the West This book, jointly authored by Meg Bateman and John Purser, is an … Read more

A folk band of 5 players, 4 seated (dulcimer, banjo and fiddles) and one standing up (guitar)

Review: Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia

7 August 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: The Bog Trotters Band, in Galax, Virginia, 1937. Autoharp, fiddlers, guitar. Geologically, the Appalachians are a continuation of the … Read more

Title page of the Gude and Godlie Ballatis edition of 1600 with blackletter font type and ornamental foliage framing this

Review: Ross W Dufflin (ed.), Gude & Godlie Ballatis Noted

28 July 202324 July 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: cover of a 1600 edition of the Gude and Godle Ballatis, from Wikipedia / Project Gutenberg Soundyngs has posted … Read more

A stone gargoyle covering its ears with its hands, and making a grotesque face

Older Scots Flyting and Hip Hop

17 July 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: ‘hear no evil’ gargoyle on Paisley Abbey. Creative Commons Licence CC BY-SA 3.0 Recent posts from Soundyngs have been … Read more

book cover title 'Hungry Beat' with a foreward by Ian Rankin. A male punk rock musician singing into a microphone, with his eyes shut and clearly singing loudly.

Review: Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984)

26 June 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Douglas Macintyre, Grant McPhee, with Neil Cooper, and a forward by Ian Rankin, Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground … Read more

4 female singers flanking a seated male harpist holding a medieval harp, photographed in York Minster

Chant from Pre-Reformation Scotland: Recordings from Canty and Cappella Nova

13 June 202312 June 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Glasgow-based choir Cappella Nova, and their off-shoot all-female group Canty, has for over 40 years (!) pioneered performances and recordings … Read more