From Tartan to Tartanry: Scottish Culture, History and Myth

ISBN-13: 9780748664641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Ian Brown

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.