Simon Frith is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Martin Cloonan is the Director of the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) at the University of Turku, Finland. He is also coordinating editor of Popular Music and sometimes sings in public.John Williamson is a lecturer in Music at the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, UK.

"Edited by Simon Frith, Martin Cloonan and John Williamson, this fascinating collection of essays from both academics, practitioners and cultural facilitators brings to life the ways that popular music is used by modern Scots to explore and perform a distinctive identity. As a description of the affiliations of modern Scottish popular music, this is a persuasive and coherent collection of essays."—Jane Pettegree, Soundyngs: Conversations on the History of Scottish Music"Simon Frith, Martin Cloonan and John Williamson, as well as contributing to the book themselves, have edited a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to the history, politics and culture of popular music in Scotland. In a series of essays and interviews which are organised into three themes, Histories; Politics and Policies; and Futures and Imaginings, they lay out an examination of Scotland’s popular music within the context of Scotland being both a nation but also a part of the UK, and how that impacts on the complexity of our cultural identity, the history, and the effects of the power structures in music. Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music is a must have reference book for anyone interested in popular music, here in Scotland and beyond."—Sheena Macdonald, The Drouth

• ForewordSelected Timeline of Key EventsIntroductionSimon Frith, Martin Cloonan, John WilliamsonPART I: Histories John Williamson1. Stramash! When Pop Music Television Comes to ScotlandJohn Williamson2. Doing It for Themselves: A Brief History of Scottish Independent Record LabelsBob Anderson 3. Scottish Live Music History: The Conflict Between Culture and EconomicsKenny Forbes 4. Fascinating Rhythm – The Life of Scottish JazzAlistair Braidwood 5. Place of LightCarla J. Easton 6. Riverside Festival, Glasgow: An Interview with Dave Clarke and Martin McKechnie John Williamson7. Performing in Gaelic: A Conversation with Joy DunlopJohn WilliamsonPART II: Politics and Policies Martin Cloonan8. "Let There Be Rock" - How A Remote Scottish Village Reinvented Its Musical HeritageEmil Thompson 9. Interview with Jill Rodger, Director, Glasgow Jazz FestivalMartin Cloonan10. The Place of Popular Music Education in Scotland – Institutions, Access, and ResponsibilitiesSean McLaughlin and Graeme Smillie 11. Jock Rock?: Putting Scotland into Scottish Popular MusicMartin Cloonan12. Hip-Hop in Scotland: A Footnote in the History of Popular Music? Dave Hook 13. "Indy" Music: Scottish Popular Music and the Constitutional Question’ Adam BehrPART III: Futures and ImaginingsSimon Frith14. The Fiction of Scottish MusicSimon Frith 15. An Interview with Alasdair Roberts on Being a Scottish SongwriterMartin Cloonan16. Re-thinking ‘Scottishness’ – Who, and What, Sounds Scottish?Diljeet Kaur BhachuCoda: The World of Scottish MusicSimon FrithAfterword: Music in a Future ScotlandNotes on ContributorsIndex

Simon Frith is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Martin Cloonan is the Director of the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) at the University of Turku, Finland. He is also coordinating editor of Popular Music and sometimes sings in public.John Williamson is a lecturer in Music at the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, UK.

"Edited by Simon Frith, Martin Cloonan and John Williamson, this fascinating collection of essays from both academics, practitioners and cultural facilitators brings to life the ways that popular music is used by modern Scots to explore and perform a distinctive identity. As a description of the affiliations of modern Scottish popular music, this is a persuasive and coherent collection of essays."—Jane Pettegree, Soundyngs: Conversations on the History of Scottish Music"Simon Frith, Martin Cloonan and John Williamson, as well as contributing to the book themselves, have edited a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to the history, politics and culture of popular music in Scotland. In a series of essays and interviews which are organised into three themes, Histories; Politics and Policies; and Futures and Imaginings, they lay out an examination of Scotland’s popular music within the context of Scotland being both a nation but also a part of the UK, and how that impacts on the complexity of our cultural identity, the history, and the effects of the power structures in music. Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music is a must have reference book for anyone interested in popular music, here in Scotland and beyond."—Sheena Macdonald, The Drouth

• ForewordSelected Timeline of Key EventsIntroductionSimon Frith, Martin Cloonan, John WilliamsonPART I: Histories John Williamson1. Stramash! When Pop Music Television Comes to ScotlandJohn Williamson2. Doing It for Themselves: A Brief History of Scottish Independent Record LabelsBob Anderson 3. Scottish Live Music History: The Conflict Between Culture and EconomicsKenny Forbes 4. Fascinating Rhythm – The Life of Scottish JazzAlistair Braidwood 5. Place of LightCarla J. Easton 6. Riverside Festival, Glasgow: An Interview with Dave Clarke and Martin McKechnie John Williamson7. Performing in Gaelic: A Conversation with Joy DunlopJohn WilliamsonPART II: Politics and Policies Martin Cloonan8. "Let There Be Rock" - How A Remote Scottish Village Reinvented Its Musical HeritageEmil Thompson 9. Interview with Jill Rodger, Director, Glasgow Jazz FestivalMartin Cloonan10. The Place of Popular Music Education in Scotland – Institutions, Access, and ResponsibilitiesSean McLaughlin and Graeme Smillie 11. Jock Rock?: Putting Scotland into Scottish Popular MusicMartin Cloonan12. Hip-Hop in Scotland: A Footnote in the History of Popular Music? Dave Hook 13. "Indy" Music: Scottish Popular Music and the Constitutional Question’ Adam BehrPART III: Futures and ImaginingsSimon Frith14. The Fiction of Scottish MusicSimon Frith 15. An Interview with Alasdair Roberts on Being a Scottish SongwriterMartin Cloonan16. Re-thinking ‘Scottishness’ – Who, and What, Sounds Scottish?Diljeet Kaur BhachuCoda: The World of Scottish MusicSimon FrithAfterword: Music in a Future ScotlandNotes on ContributorsIndex

Simon Frith is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Martin Cloonan is the Director of the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) at the University of Turku, Finland. He is also coordinating editor of Popular Music and sometimes sings in public.John Williamson is a lecturer in Music at the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, UK.

"Edited by Simon Frith, Martin Cloonan and John Williamson, this fascinating collection of essays from both academics, practitioners and cultural facilitators brings to life the ways that popular music is used by modern Scots to explore and perform a distinctive identity. As a description of the affiliations of modern Scottish popular music, this is a persuasive and coherent collection of essays."—Jane Pettegree, Soundyngs: Conversations on the History of Scottish Music"Simon Frith, Martin Cloonan and John Williamson, as well as contributing to the book themselves, have edited a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to the history, politics and culture of popular music in Scotland. In a series of essays and interviews which are organised into three themes, Histories; Politics and Policies; and Futures and Imaginings, they lay out an examination of Scotland’s popular music within the context of Scotland being both a nation but also a part of the UK, and how that impacts on the complexity of our cultural identity, the history, and the effects of the power structures in music. Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music is a must have reference book for anyone interested in popular music, here in Scotland and beyond."—Sheena Macdonald, The Drouth

• ForewordSelected Timeline of Key EventsIntroductionSimon Frith, Martin Cloonan, John WilliamsonPART I: Histories John Williamson1. Stramash! When Pop Music Television Comes to ScotlandJohn Williamson2. Doing It for Themselves: A Brief History of Scottish Independent Record LabelsBob Anderson 3. Scottish Live Music History: The Conflict Between Culture and EconomicsKenny Forbes 4. Fascinating Rhythm – The Life of Scottish JazzAlistair Braidwood 5. Place of LightCarla J. Easton 6. Riverside Festival, Glasgow: An Interview with Dave Clarke and Martin McKechnie John Williamson7. Performing in Gaelic: A Conversation with Joy DunlopJohn WilliamsonPART II: Politics and Policies Martin Cloonan8. "Let There Be Rock" - How A Remote Scottish Village Reinvented Its Musical HeritageEmil Thompson 9. Interview with Jill Rodger, Director, Glasgow Jazz FestivalMartin Cloonan10. The Place of Popular Music Education in Scotland – Institutions, Access, and ResponsibilitiesSean McLaughlin and Graeme Smillie 11. Jock Rock?: Putting Scotland into Scottish Popular MusicMartin Cloonan12. Hip-Hop in Scotland: A Footnote in the History of Popular Music? Dave Hook 13. "Indy" Music: Scottish Popular Music and the Constitutional Question’ Adam BehrPART III: Futures and ImaginingsSimon Frith14. The Fiction of Scottish MusicSimon Frith 15. An Interview with Alasdair Roberts on Being a Scottish SongwriterMartin Cloonan16. Re-thinking ‘Scottishness’ – Who, and What, Sounds Scottish?Diljeet Kaur BhachuCoda: The World of Scottish MusicSimon FrithAfterword: Music in a Future ScotlandNotes on ContributorsIndex