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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: 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: 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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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

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Harry Linn, Music Hall Artist: “Scotland’s Premier Comic Philosopher”

24 January 202224 January 2022 by Dr John Baxter

  Editor: digitised historic newspaper adverts and short reviews are a great resource for mapping historical musical activity, as this … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, JohnBaxter, MusicHall, PopularMusic, Victorian 2 Comments

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