From Tartan to Tartanry (eBook, ePUB)

Scottish Culture, History and Myth
Redaktion: Brown, Ian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.From Tartan to Tartanry offers fresh insight into and new perspectives on key cultural phenomena, from the iconic role of the Scottish regiments to the role of tartan in rock music. It argues that tartan may be fun, but it also plays a wide range of fascinating, important and valuable roles in Scottish and international culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748664658
• Artikelnr.: 56904384

Autorenporträt

Ian Brown is Emeritus Professor in Drama at Kingston University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. He is the General Editor of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (EUP: 2007) and widely published on aspects of theatre and literature. He is also a playwright and poet.

Inhaltsangabe

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.