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John Dewars Islay, Jura and Colonsay: A Birds Eye View
No full textThis review article attempts to assess the first fruits of a monumental undertaking by Ronald Black, Christopher Dracup and their colleagues aimed at publishing in their entirety the historical accounts and lore collected by John Dewar (1802–1872) in the West Highlands of Scotland between 1862 and 1872. It does so from the perspective of a general reader, anticipating that Scottish historians, linguists, onomasticians, ethnologists, folktale experts, musicians and others will offer more specialised critiques in due course
Before and After Coal: Images and Voices from Scotlands Mining Communities, National Galleries of Scotland
No full textScottish Religious Poetry from the Sixth Century to the Present, ed. Linden Bicket, Emma Dymock and Alison Jack
No full textWebspinner: Songs, stories, and reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller, by John D. Niles
No full textPipers Canntaireachd and Scottish Gaelic: Basic elements and expressive variability
No full textCanntaireachd is an orally-devised method used by pipers to remember pibroch (pìobaireachd) compositions, the classical repertoire of the highland bagpipes, and to transmit the music to others. Canntaireachd began to be fixed in print from the early nineteenth century, but unlike tonic solfa and staff notation, the primary purpose of canntaireachd was not the recording of melody. Indeed, it was never intended as a written medium at all, but rather as a means of orally encoding a variety of stylistic features in the context of a tune, thereby providing an aural road-map for performers already familiar with the musical idiom. Based on the sounds of the language spoken by early Highland pipers – Gaelic – and thus subject to that language’s dialectal variability, canntaireachd nonetheless has its own syntax and obeys its own semantic rules. In this article, the author explores the relationship between canntaireachd and the Gaelic language, and describes how canntaireachd as an oral medium is able to distinguish, in an ad hoc manner, agogic features and other details not normally differentiated when canntaireachd is written down – highlighting, in effect, the sung method’s ‘expressive variability’
We in Scotland have to make our stand for pure Liberalism: John M. Bannerman and Scottish Politics, 1932-1968
No full textThis article assesses the political career of John M. Bannerman from his entry into Scottish politics in the early 1930s until his final speeches in the House of the Lords in the late 1960s. The principal issue which it addresses is the history of the Liberal party in Scotland in the period from 1945 to the late 1960s. By analysing Bannerman\u27s Liberal candidatures (he stood eight times in four different Scottish constituencies from 1945 to 1964, losing on each occasion), his attitude to Scottish Home Rule, his role in keeping the Scottish Liberal Party alive, and his ideas on the revival of the Scottish Highlands, it deals with his role in the survival of a party which had once dominated Scottish politics but had fallen into deep decline. The position of the Liberal Party during a period in which the Labour Party and the Scottish Unionist Party dominated the politics of Scotland is also a theme of the article. Some additional comments are made about the way in which both the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party have deployed Bannerman’s memory in arguing their positions vis-à-vis post-devolution Scottish politics
