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
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Linking Arms for Auld Lang Syne: Celebrating Friendship
Image: Illustration to Robert Burns’ ‘Auld Lang Syne’ by J.M. Wright and Edward Scriven. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: … Read more
More on Scottish Music in 19th century Australia
Image: Victoria, Australia, painted by Eugene von Guerard. Use free of conditions from www.goodfreephotos.com Soundyngs earlier this year reviewed an … Read more
Glasgow Pavilion Theatre: Scottish Music Hall heritage at a crossroads
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
Review: James Porter, “Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination”
James Porter, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (University of Rochester, 2019) James Porter’s examination of the musical … Read more
Review: Patricia Ballantyne, “Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation”
Patricia Ballantyne, Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation (Routledge, 2019) Like many educated in Scottish schools (even today), I … Read more
Frances Tolmie’s Skye Songs: manuscript sources from the National Library of Scotland
The National Library of Scotland is continuing to add to its digital archives material and recent press releases draw our … Read more
More on the Gaelic Songs of Hebridean Herring Gutters
Meg Hyland, mentioned in an earlier Soundyngs post, has now published her first article on the Gaelic songs of herring … Read more
Women and Fishing Songs – celebrating Women’s History Month (a foretaste of March 2022)
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
Dundee Street Songs, Rhymes and Games: The William Montgomerie Collection, 1952 Introduced, edited and annotated by Margaret Bennett, and illustrated … Read more
Scottish Songs in Canada: MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada
While digital archives in Scotland hold many riches of traditional music, the Scots, of course, took (and still take) their … Read more
Singing the Gospel along Scotland’s North-East Coast, 1859-2009
Editor: Northern Scotland’s Evangelical revival is an important aspect of religious cultural and tradition which this book, published in the … Read more