From tartan to tartanry : Scottish culture, history and myth / edited by Ian Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Ian, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scotland--Civilization.

Scotland.

Civilization.

Tartans.

Nationalism--Scotland.

Nationalism.

Scotland--History.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

Summary:

This critical re-evaluation of tartan in Scottish culture draws together contributions from leading researchers in a wide variety of disciplines, resulting in a highly authoritative volume.

Like tartan, it 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: a weave of heritage, myth, music hall, literature, film, comedy, pop music, sport and 'high' culture.

From Tartan to Tartanry offers fresh insight into 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 can also take on fascinating and valuable roles in Scottish and international culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Gheibhte breacain charnaid ('Scarlet Tartans would be got...'): the re-invention of tradition / Hugh Cheape

Plaiding the invention of Scotland / Murray Pittock

From David Stewart to Andy Stewart: the invention and re-invention of the Scottish soldier / Trevor Royle

Paying for the plaid: Scottish Gaelic identity politics in nineteenth-century North America / Michael Newton

Tartanry into Tartan: heritage, tourism and material culture / Ian Maitland Hume

Myth, political caricature and monstering the Tartan / Ian Brown

Tartanry and its discontents: the idea of popular Scottishness / Alan Riach

'Wha's like us?' ethnic representation in music hall and popular theatre and the remaking of urban Scottish society / Paul Maloney

Literary Tartanry as translation / Susanne Hagemann

Looking at Tartan in film: history, identity, and spectacle / Richard Butt

Tartan comics and comic Tartanry / Margaret Munro

Rock, pop and Tartan / J. Mark Percival

Class warriors or generous men in skirts?: the Tartan army in the Scottish and foreign press / Hugh O'Donnell

Don't take the high road: Tartanry and its critics / David Goldie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-264) and index.

ISBN:

9780748638772

0748638776

OCLC:

535492475