Understanding Scotland Musically

本研究旨在发展对当代传统音乐如何在表演和媒体中用于构建苏格兰身份的新理解。英国的权力下放和新欧洲的迅速扩张导致了在音乐社区全球化背景下地区和国家身份的重要性的上升。曾经被认为是媚俗的鞑靼音乐被重新神话化，现在来自苏格兰音乐家的混合声音描绘了一种更新的、新兴的民族认同感。越来越多的音乐家正在表演去地域化和商品化的音乐，这将注意力从音乐的起源和真实的意识形态转移到更短暂的声音身份和模糊的既定音乐流派。这些变化有力地改变了苏格兰音乐和身份，这项研究将调查在日益（不）的英国公共生活的关键时刻，苏格兰性是如何在传统音乐中表现出来的。因此，该项目旨在对身份的音乐政治提供细致入微的理解，并影响政策制定者和关键利益相关者，挑战旧的神话，代表英国新定义的地区和少数民族。这一合作将促成一本单独撰写的书的出版和一个资源丰富的网站。

This research aims to develop new understandings of how contemporary traditional music is used in the construction of Scottish identity both in performance and through the media. Devolution in the UK, and the rapid expansion of the New Europe have led to a rise of importance of regional and national identities within the context of globalization of musical communities. What was once considered kitsch tartanry has been re-mythologized and now hybrid sounds from Scottish musicians portray a newer, emergent sense of national identity. Increasingly, musicians are performing deterritorialized and commodified music which is shifting attention away from musical provenance and authentic ideology towards more transient sonic identities and blurring established musical genres. These changes have powerfully altered Scottish music and identity and this research will investigate how Scottishness is performed in, and as, traditional music at this crucial moment in the public life of an increasingly (dis)United Kingdom. This project therefore aims to provide a nuanced understanding of the musical politics of identity, and to influence policy makers and key stake holders in challenging older mythologies and representing newly defined regions and minorities in the UK as a whole. This fellowship will result in a sole-authored book for publication and a resource-rich website.