Made in Scotland

Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, politics, culture, and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music in Scotland. The volume consists of essays by local experts and leading scholars in Scottish music and culture, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Scotland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book includes a general introduction to Scottish popular music, followed by essays organized into three thematic sections: Histories, Politics and Policies, and Futures and Imaginings.

Examining music as cultural expression in a country that is both a nation and a region within a larger state, this volume uses popular music to analyse Scottishness, independence, and diversity and offers new insights into the complexity of cultural identity, the power of historical imagination, and the effects of power structures in music. It is a vital read for scholars and students interested in how popular music interacts with and shapes such issues both within and beyond the borders of Scotland.

Foreword

Selected Timeline of Key Events

Introduction

PART I: Histories

John Williamson

1. Stramash! When Pop Music Television Comes to Scotland

2. Doing It for Themselves: A Brief History of Scottish Independent Record Labels

3. Scottish Live Music History: The Conflict Between Culture and Economics

4. Fascinating Rhythm - The Life of Scottish Jazz

5. Place of Light

6. Riverside Festival, Glasgow: An Interview with Dave Clarke and Martin McKechnie

7. Performing in Gaelic: A Conversation with Joy Dunlop

PART II: Politics and Policies

8. "Let There Be Rock" - How A Remote Scottish Village Reinvented Its Musical Heritage

9. Interview with Jill Rodger, Director, Glasgow Jazz Festival

10. The Place of Popular Music Education in Scotland - Institutions, Access, and Responsibilities

Sean McLaughlin and Graeme Smillie

11. Jock Rock? : Putting Scotland into Scottish Popular Music

12. Hip-Hop in Scotland: A Footnote in the History of Popular Music?

13. "Indy" Music: Scottish Popular Music and the Constitutional Question'

Adam Behr

PART III: Futures and Imaginings

14. The Fiction of Scottish Music

15. An Interview with Alasdair Roberts on Being a Scottish Songwriter

Martin Cloonan

16. Re-thinking 'Scottishness' - Who, and What, Sounds Scottish?

Coda: The World of Scottish Music

Simon Frith

Afterword: Music in a Future Scotland

Notes on Contributors

Index