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MUSIC IN SCOTLANDKatrina McMahon & Laura Buchanan
Music in Scotland
Katrina McMahon& Laura Buchanan
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WHAT IS SCOTTISH MUSIC?
WHAT IS SCOTTIS
H MUSIC?
Scotland is internationally known for its traditional music...
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POSTCARD RECORDS
-ALAN HORNE, AGED JUST 19-GLASGOW, 1978-ORANGE JUICE-’NEW SOUND OF SCOTLAND’-GREAT GLASGOW POP GOLD RUSH-GLASGOW HAD A REPUTATION FOR ALCOHOLISM, HARD-MEN AND POVERTY
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SCOTLAND & NATIONAL IDENTITY
THE PROCLAIMERS
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Scottish Music Funding
Scotland= above average in retail and live sector
Weaknesses= distribution, lack of associated professionals, lack of media support, FUNDINGCloonan (Popular Music and the State (2007:12)
Franz Ferdinand= ¼ Scottish, Based in London, Royalties to English agencies, why did they leave Scotland?
RSAMD, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Scottish Dance Theatre, Scottish Ballet
Despite lots of arts organisations, lack of funding is drivingMusicians away…
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Manifesto for Scottish Parliamentary Election 2011 Appointment of a minister of
music Creation of a Scottish Music
Development Agency Free instrumental tuition for all
children in Scotland Development of a Scottish music
website Scottish Music Day
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Example: Plockton Traditional Music School
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12415722
15/03/11 School saved from closure£300,000 cuts to funding for traditional music
Is anything being done to promote Scottish Music Anymore?
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Scottish Arts CouncilCreating new music for individuals through:
• Development of new music projects by Scottish based composers, songwriters and producers
• The creation, rehearsal and development of new music
• Commissioning, writing, composing and creative development across all styles
• Recording of material for professional release by musicians, artists or groups.
• Individual musicians or groups who have been invited to showcase at key events in the music industry in order to advance their careers
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Other funding initiatives
•Youth Music Initiative•Highland Arts Programme•Music +
Other Music Associations and Initiatives :
•Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association
•Falkirk Council Arts Development
•Ideasmart: initiative with the Scottish Arts Council to support entrepreneurship •in the arts
•NESTA: rewarding creativeness in the arts
•Scottish Cultural Enterprise
•Scottish Development International
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Scottish Music and America
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Scottish Influence on American genre
Joan Baez- Walls of Redwinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOXwLgJGLZA
The Corries- the road and the miles to Dundeehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm5_jma2GMQ
1700’s Immigrants came to America
50,000 Scottish Settlers
Genres influenced by Scots:-Folk-Gospel-Bluegrass
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Scottish influence on artists
Is Scotland to thank for American music?
Identity crisis…
Elvis?
Influence of Scottish bands on Nirvana
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Reliance on America?
Albannach- Grandfather Mountain Highland Gameshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p84UOS2RiBU
America and Scottish traditional music – Pseudo-Scottishness?
Scottish music emigrating to America once again (Snow Patrol, KT Tunstall, Paolo Nutini, Franz Ferdinand
Do we rely on the States for our national music to be taken seriously?
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Thanks for listening!
Discussion
‘For the last three decades Scotland has produced some of the world’s most original and influential pop
music. Against a backdrop of political turmoil and a national identity
crisis… and it all started when a small independent record label
changed Scottish music forever...’.