20thCentury – Page 3

Cover art from A Scottish Vernacular Discography 188 to 1960 showing a sample of record labels

Review: Scottish Vernacular Discography, 1888-1960

18 January 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Soundyngs was rummaging around in the internet this week and found this resource in the webpages of the National Library … Read more

Book title page saying Made in Scotland Studies in Popular Music

Review: Made in Scotland: essays on Scottish Popular Music in the 20th and 21st centuries

8 January 2024 by Jane Pettegree

History starts, I guess, “yesterday”, and this book pushes right at the threshold of what is “history” and what is … Read more

Book cover title Are Ye Dancin'? showing a 6 piece band lineup with guitars and drums in a dance hall

Review: Are Ye Dancin’? Scotland’s 20th Century Dance Halls

13 November 202313 November 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Soundyngs recently reviewed a book on 19th century popular entertainment. Today’s post reviews a picture-book history of Scottish dance halls … Read more

Front of book title Scottish Students Song Book with shield showing lion, and many thistles

The Scottish Students’ Song Book: University Freshers’ Fun, old-style

30 October 2023 by Rosa Michaelson

Editor: as nights draw in and we begin to spend more time indoors, Rosa Michaelson invites us to think about … Read more

Georgian House, red painted, with signs saying Broughton House

Broughton House and Border Ballads Part 1: The Macmath Manuscript

4 September 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Featured Image: Broughton House, photograph by Lorna M Campbell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Soundyngs went to Galloway this … Read more

Dunkeld Fiddlers and Music Archives

18 September 202328 August 2023 by Jane Pettegree

With thanks to Pete Clark and Munro Gauld for filling in some of the gaps. Dunkeld is widely known as … 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

Stanley Odd rap group - 5 musicians dressed in their Big Coats standing against a wall painting in grafitti-like images.

Rock, Rap and Modern Scottish Political Identity

29 May 2023 by Jane Pettegree

In a month when the music for a coronation has been discussed intensively, the BBC broke the news this week … Read more

Poster image for The Reeling festival, listing dates for 2023 and featured acts

Summer Festival or Fèis?

10 April 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Soundyngs posted earlier in the year about Celtic Connections, Scotland’s premier international festival for Celtic music. The summer months are … Read more