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

Other author Brown, Ian, 1951-
Format Book
Publication InfoEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
Descriptionvi, 278 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-264) and index.
LCCN 2010670881
ISBN9780748638772 (hbk.)
ISBN0748638776 (hbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks DA772 .F76 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold