Popular Scottish Song Traditions at Home (and Away)

This article addresses the way in which collective ideas of cultural identity in song are appropriated and customised at the local level. More specifically, it examines how the cultural construction of Scottishness in popular song was deployed and mediated in my Scottish/Australian family's son...

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Main Author: Dougal, Josephine Kathleen
Format: Journal Article
Published: Routledge Tailor Francis 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7262
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description This article addresses the way in which collective ideas of cultural identity in song are appropriated and customised at the local level. More specifically, it examines how the cultural construction of Scottishness in popular song was deployed and mediated in my Scottish/Australian family's song repertoire. The substance of this article draws from a recent Ph.D. study of my own migrant family's Scottish song traditions in Australia. It thus considers how song performance served as a vehicle for the formation of family and cultural meaning.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-72622019-10-14T01:34:20Z Popular Scottish Song Traditions at Home (and Away) Dougal, Josephine Kathleen This article addresses the way in which collective ideas of cultural identity in song are appropriated and customised at the local level. More specifically, it examines how the cultural construction of Scottishness in popular song was deployed and mediated in my Scottish/Australian family's song repertoire. The substance of this article draws from a recent Ph.D. study of my own migrant family's Scottish song traditions in Australia. It thus considers how song performance served as a vehicle for the formation of family and cultural meaning. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7262 10.1080/0015587X.2011.608265 Routledge Tailor Francis restricted
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Popular Scottish Song Traditions at Home (and Away)
title Popular Scottish Song Traditions at Home (and Away)
title_full Popular Scottish Song Traditions at Home (and Away)
title_fullStr Popular Scottish Song Traditions at Home (and Away)
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title_short Popular Scottish Song Traditions at Home (and Away)
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url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7262