A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Jock Rock? : Putting Scotland into Scottish Popular Music
Authors: Cloonan Martin
Editors: Frith Simon, Cloonan Martin, Williamson John
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication year: 2023
Book title : Made in Scotland : Studies in Popular Music
Journal name in source: Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music
Series title: Routledge Global Popular Music Series
First page : 108
Last page: 116
ISBN: 978-1-032-16198-3
eISBN: 978-1-003-24747-0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003247470-14(external)
Web address : https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003247470-14(external)
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.