Radical Glasgow Songsters
Can history be taught through song? Well yes, according to a new band, The Tenementals, who are working on their … Read more
Can history be taught through song? Well yes, according to a new band, The Tenementals, who are working on their … Read more
Image: Illustration to Robert Burns’ ‘Auld Lang Syne’ by J.M. Wright and Edward Scriven. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: … Read more
Image: Victoria, Australia, painted by Eugene von Guerard. Use free of conditions from www.goodfreephotos.com Soundyngs earlier this year reviewed an … Read more
Image attribution: Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons This weekend, it was reported in the Scottish press that … Read more
James Porter, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (University of Rochester, 2019) James Porter’s examination of the musical … Read more
Patricia Ballantyne, Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation (Routledge, 2019) Like many educated in Scottish schools (even today), I … Read more
The National Library of Scotland is continuing to add to its digital archives material and recent press releases draw our … Read more
Meg Hyland, mentioned in an earlier Soundyngs post, has now published her first article on the Gaelic songs of herring … Read more
Feature: early career researcher Meg Hyland talks about the singing culture of women herring workers. March is celebrated annually in … Read more
Dundee Street Songs, Rhymes and Games: The William Montgomerie Collection, 1952 Introduced, edited and annotated by Margaret Bennett, and illustrated … Read more
While digital archives in Scotland hold many riches of traditional music, the Scots, of course, took (and still take) their … Read more
Editor: Northern Scotland’s Evangelical revival is an important aspect of religious cultural and tradition which this book, published in the … Read more