Sounding the Archive: Cathy Lane, Soundscapes and History-making
Image: The Machair on Berneray, Outer Hebrides, By Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0. Soundyngs is interested in different approaches to … Read more
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A Multiplicity of Charlies: the winding path connecting Airlie to Loch Lomond
Image: Airlie Castle By Simon Cotterill – https://www.flickr.com/photos/137828720@N06/51368183908/, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=179738954 If you have patience to read to the end of … Read more
Review: The Coigach & Assynt Collection
Music, place, and people are woven together in this collection from the far north-west of Scotland. Subtitled ‘òrain, sgeulachdan, puirt’ … Read more
Review: The John M Mason Collection
Soundyngs’ workplace recently received an impressively weighty 2 volume hardback collection of fiddle tunes by John M Mason (1940-2011), co-founder … Read more
Scottish Musical Place Names
Image: Piper Street in Keith (author’s own photograph) Summer holidays always throw up some musical curiosities, and this year’s highlight … Read more
People Make Places: Popular Music and the Academy
Soundyngs normally signposts research outputs, but here’s research-in-the-making, or, practice-based research; singing about history, making history. People Make Places: a … Read more
Review: Understanding Scotland Musically: Folk, Tradition and Policy
In Soundyngs’ very first post in January 2022 we suggested that this site had a working definition of ‘Scottish Music’ … Read more
Review: Since Yesterday – the Untold Story of Scotland’s Girlbands
Image: Still from Since Yesterday, photo credit Euan Robertson A packed Dundee Contemporary Arts centre was the venue for those … Read more
The Sound of Scotland – what is ‘Scottish film music’?
Image: Advert for Rob Roy (Westminster Films, dir. W. P. Kelling, 1922), in The Bioscope, Thursday 21st September 1922, p.7. … Read more
Soundscapes and Natural Histories: Listening to Portmoak
Image: crosssection of a bank on the perimeter of Portmoak Moss, showing how deep the peat is, and its layers. … Read more
Review: Franz Ferdinand and the Pop Renaissance
Franz Ferdinand and the Pop Renaissance, by Hamilton Harvey (London: Reynolds & Hearn, 2005) Tapping in again to the contemporary … Read more
Review: Strike Up, Strike Sure: The Pipes and Drums of the London Scottish Regiment
Strike Up, Strike Sure: The Pipes and Drums of the London Scottish Regiment by Duncan da Silva Scottish military music … Read more