A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book

Jock Rock? : Putting Scotland into Scottish Popular Music




AuthorsCloonan Martin

EditorsFrith Simon, Cloonan Martin, Williamson John

PublisherTaylor and Francis

Publication year2023

Book title Made in Scotland : Studies in Popular Music

Journal name in sourceMade in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music

Series titleRoutledge Global Popular Music Series

First page 108

Last page116

ISBN978-1-032-16198-3

eISBN978-1-003-24747-0

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003247470-14(external)

Web address https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003247470-14(external)


Abstract

This chapter asks whether there is such a thing as Scottish popular music. It argues that while there is not such a thing, articulations of Scottishness are often made by the country’s popular musicians. It examines the ways in which Scottish-made popular music has been written about and at how notions of nationality are alluded to historically. It concludes by looking systematically at the attempts to discern the Scottishness of popular music in the musician’s voice, clothing, dour image, performance style and by reference to the issue of migration.



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