Is it too "early" to tell? Ano...
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In “Highland Songs of the ’45”, the National Trust for Scotland shares original audio recordings of Gaelic songs collected by archivist John Lorne Campbell from Canna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3knfjXaYI
#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #song #folksong


“As a patterned textile, [tartan] features straight lines, right angles, bright colours, and no ambiguity; as a symbol, its lines become fuzzy, its angles circular, its colours muddied, and its meaning polysemic.”
—Ellen R. Beard, “When Tartan Was Not Fake: The Disclothing Act in Gaelic Song”
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2022/06/when-tartan-was-not-fake-the-disclothing-act-in-gaelic-song/
#Scottish #literature #culture #history #tartan #TartanDay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #song #folksong

Tartan is simultaneously a material object, a design template, and a symbol with multiple referents. As a patterned textile, it features straight lines, right angles, bright colours, and no ambiguity; as a symbol, its lines become fuzzy, its angles circular, its colours muddied, and its meaning polysemic (Brown, 9). While this paper addresses the significance […]
Good god, there is a Dolly Parton version of Cyril Tawney’s “Grey Funnel Line”. Who’d ’a’ thunk it?!


For all the #noKings protesters out these days:
It's good to have songs to sing together.
So here is "No Kings" by Jesse Welles (apologies for YT link, couldn't find him on peertube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXWDuv-ebrI
