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People Make Places: Popular Music and the Academy

23 June 202530 May 2025 by Jane Pettegree

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

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Review: Understanding Scotland Musically: Folk, Tradition and Policy

3 March 20253 March 2025 by Jane Pettegree

In Soundyngs’ very first post in January 2022 we suggested that this site had a working definition of ‘Scottish Music’ … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, 21stCentury, ClassicalMusic, FolkMusic, Historiography, Popular Music, PopularMusic, TraditionalMusic Leave a comment
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Review: Since Yesterday – the Untold Story of Scotland’s Girlbands

16 December 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Still from Since Yesterday, photo credit Euan Robertson A packed Dundee Contemporary Arts centre was the venue for those … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 20thCentury, 21stCentury, Film, Pop, Popular Music, Postpunk, RockMusic, Women Leave a comment
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The Sound of Scotland – what is ‘Scottish film music’?

23 September 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Advert for Rob Roy (Westminster Films, dir. W. P. Kelling, 1922), in The Bioscope, Thursday 21st September 1922, p.7. … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 20thCentury, 21stCentury, Film Leave a comment

Soundscapes and Natural Histories: Listening to Portmoak

20 September 20246 September 2024 by Natasha Currie

Image: crosssection of a bank on the perimeter of Portmoak Moss, showing how deep the peat is, and its layers. … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 21stCentury, Environment, Prehistoric, Soundscape Leave a comment
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Review: Franz Ferdinand and the Pop Renaissance

13 May 20247 May 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Franz Ferdinand and the Pop Renaissance, by Hamilton Harvey (London: Reynolds & Hearn, 2005) Tapping in again to the contemporary … Read more

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Review: Strike Up, Strike Sure: The Pipes and Drums of the London Scottish Regiment

29 April 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Strike Up, Strike Sure: The Pipes and Drums of the London Scottish Regiment by Duncan da Silva Scottish military music … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, 21stCentury, Bagpipe, Military, PipesAndDrums Leave a comment
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Joe Aitken and Bothy Ballads

22 April 202422 April 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Joe Aitken winning the Bothy Ballands Champion of Champions in 2020, photo credit Daniel Forsyth, from Grampian Online. The … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, 21stCentury, BothyBallads Leave a comment
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Review: The Edge of the Sea by Craig Armstrong and Calum Martin

15 April 2024 by Jane Pettegree

The Edge of the Sea by Craig Armstrong and Calum Martin. Featuring the Scottish Ensemble and Duncan Chisholm, and psalm … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 21stCentury, CalumMartin, ClassicalMusic, CraigArmstrong, Gaelic, Psalms Leave a comment
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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

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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

Categories Articles Tags 20thCentury, 21stCentury, Pop, Popular Music, RapMusic, RockMusic Leave a comment
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Scottish Psalms Online – A New Split-leaf Resource

26 May 202319 May 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Scottish musical identity has steered a course through national history navigating between the devil’s fiddle and the psalm book of … Read more

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