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
PopularMusic
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: 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: Made in Scotland: essays on Scottish Popular Music in the 20th and 21st centuries
History starts, I guess, “yesterday”, and this book pushes right at the threshold of what is “history” and what is … Read more
Review: Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984)
Douglas Macintyre, Grant McPhee, with Neil Cooper, and a forward by Ian Rankin, Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground … Read more
Harry Linn, Music Hall Artist: “Scotland’s Premier Comic Philosopher”
Editor: digitised historic newspaper adverts and short reviews are a great resource for mapping historical musical activity, as this … Read more