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Publication Date:
26 Nov 2010
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
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Description
An historically and critically sound--and contemporary--evaluation of tartan and tartanry based on proper contextualisation and coherent analysis. This critical re-evaluation of one of the more controversial aspects of recent debates on Scottish culture draws together contributions from leading researchers in a wide variety of disciplines, resulting in a highly accessible yet authoritative volume. This book, like tartan, weaves together two strands. The first, like a warp, considers the significance of tartan in Scottish history and culture during the last four centuries, including tartan's role in the development of diaspora identities in North America. The second, like a weft, considers the place of tartan and rise of tartanry in the national and international representations of Scottishness, including heritage, historical myth-making, popular culture, music hall, literature, film, comedy, rock and pop music, sport and 'high' culture.
Contents
Introduction: Tartan, tartanry and hybridity, Ian Brown; 1: 'Scarlet tartans would be got ...': the Re-invention of Tradition, Hugh Cheape; 2: Plaiding the Invention of Scotland, Murray Pittock; 3: From David Stewart to Andy Stewart: The Invention of the Scottish Soldier, Trevor Royle; 4: Paying for the plaid: Scottish Gaelic identity politics in nineteenth-century North America, Michael Newton; 5: Tartanry into tartan: heritage, tourism and material culture, Ian Maitland Hume; 6: Myth, political caricature and monstering the tartan, Ian Brown; 7: Tartanry and its Discontents: the Idea of Popular Scottishness, Alan Riach; 8: 'Wha's like us?': ethnic representation in music hall and popular theatre and the remaking of urban Scottish society, Paul Maloney; 9: Literary tartanry as translation, Susanne Hagemann; 10: Looking at tartan in film: history, identity and spectacle, Richard Butt; 11: Tartan comics and comic tartanry, Margaret Munro; 12: Rock, pop and tartanry, J. Mark Percival; 13: Class warriors or generous men in skirts?: the Tartan Army in the Scottish and foreign press, Hugh O'Donnell; 14: Don't take the High Road: tartanry and its critics, David Goldie.
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