"This collection of essays is a long overdue account of the impact of the 1960s on Scottish literature, film, art, television and music. The authors bring to the project an expertise in a range of fields in order to critically examine some of the myths and counter-myths of this seminal decade. […] The volume is a welcome addition to the historiography of the 1960s. There is much detail, nuance and complexity in the way in which each author reconstructs a sense of time, place, identity, movement and conflict." – Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton, in: Northern Scotland 7.1 (2016), pp. 121-124"[…] we can be grateful for this survey of the decade's tensions and developments, its passionate encounters between the generations – so well embodied in the startling illustration which adorns its cover" – David Robb, University of Dundee, in: The Bottle Imp 2014 [Full review]"The fifteen essays collected in The Scottish Sixties vividly and authoritatively map out the key events and figures through which Scotland was plugged into international artistic, cultural and social changes.There are engaging portraits of iconic individuals such as Tom McGrath (in interview with Bartie), Hamish Henderson (Corey Gibson), Ian Hamilton Finlay (Tom Normand and others) and Edwin Morgan (James McGonigal and others); and of lesserknown figures such as Margaret Tait (Duncan Petrie), D.M. Black and Kenneth Whyte (Roderick Watson)." – Greg Thomas, University of Edinburgh, in: Studies in Scottish Literature 40:1 (2014), pp. 235-240 [Full review]

• ContributorsAcknowledgementsEleanor Bell: IntroductionTom Devine: The Sixties in Scotland: A Historical ContextAngela Bartie: Explorer: Into the Sixties with Tom McGrathRoderick Watson: Scottish Poetry: The Scene and the SixtiesRichard Price: Some Questions about Literary Infrastructure in the 1960sJames McGonigal: Edwin Morgan, Hugh MacDiarmid and the Direction of the MacAvantgardeAlistair McCleery: Late News from the Provinces: The Trial of Cain’s BookSylvia Bryce-Wunder: Through Expatriate Eyes: Muriel Spark, Alexander Trocchi, and the Empowerment of Scottish Literature during the 1960sMargery Palmer McCulloch: Culture and the City: Poetry, Painting and Music in 1960s GlasgowBob Anderson: Clan Balls, Luvvers and Incredible Strings: Popular Music in 1960s GlasgowCorey Gibson: The Folkniks in the Kailyard: Hamish Henderson and the ‘Folk-song Flyting’Linda Gunn: Mind the Gap: Scottish Theatre in the 1960s?Duncan Petrie: Planting the Seeds of Ambition: Scottish Film in the 1960sJohn Corbett: Photographing Lallans: Alan Daiches, Alexander Scott and Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Poems for TelevisionTom Normand: Re-thinking ‘Provincialism’: Scotland’s Visual Culture in the 1960sIndex

"This collection of essays is a long overdue account of the impact of the 1960s on Scottish literature, film, art, television and music. The authors bring to the project an expertise in a range of fields in order to critically examine some of the myths and counter-myths of this seminal decade. […] The volume is a welcome addition to the historiography of the 1960s. There is much detail, nuance and complexity in the way in which each author reconstructs a sense of time, place, identity, movement and conflict." – Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton, in: Northern Scotland 7.1 (2016), pp. 121-124"[…] we can be grateful for this survey of the decade's tensions and developments, its passionate encounters between the generations – so well embodied in the startling illustration which adorns its cover" – David Robb, University of Dundee, in: The Bottle Imp 2014 [Full review]"The fifteen essays collected in The Scottish Sixties vividly and authoritatively map out the key events and figures through which Scotland was plugged into international artistic, cultural and social changes.There are engaging portraits of iconic individuals such as Tom McGrath (in interview with Bartie), Hamish Henderson (Corey Gibson), Ian Hamilton Finlay (Tom Normand and others) and Edwin Morgan (James McGonigal and others); and of lesserknown figures such as Margaret Tait (Duncan Petrie), D.M. Black and Kenneth Whyte (Roderick Watson)." – Greg Thomas, University of Edinburgh, in: Studies in Scottish Literature 40:1 (2014), pp. 235-240 [Full review]

• ContributorsAcknowledgementsEleanor Bell: IntroductionTom Devine: The Sixties in Scotland: A Historical ContextAngela Bartie: Explorer: Into the Sixties with Tom McGrathRoderick Watson: Scottish Poetry: The Scene and the SixtiesRichard Price: Some Questions about Literary Infrastructure in the 1960sJames McGonigal: Edwin Morgan, Hugh MacDiarmid and the Direction of the MacAvantgardeAlistair McCleery: Late News from the Provinces: The Trial of Cain’s BookSylvia Bryce-Wunder: Through Expatriate Eyes: Muriel Spark, Alexander Trocchi, and the Empowerment of Scottish Literature during the 1960sMargery Palmer McCulloch: Culture and the City: Poetry, Painting and Music in 1960s GlasgowBob Anderson: Clan Balls, Luvvers and Incredible Strings: Popular Music in 1960s GlasgowCorey Gibson: The Folkniks in the Kailyard: Hamish Henderson and the ‘Folk-song Flyting’Linda Gunn: Mind the Gap: Scottish Theatre in the 1960s?Duncan Petrie: Planting the Seeds of Ambition: Scottish Film in the 1960sJohn Corbett: Photographing Lallans: Alan Daiches, Alexander Scott and Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Poems for TelevisionTom Normand: Re-thinking ‘Provincialism’: Scotland’s Visual Culture in the 1960sIndex

"This collection of essays is a long overdue account of the impact of the 1960s on Scottish literature, film, art, television and music. The authors bring to the project an expertise in a range of fields in order to critically examine some of the myths and counter-myths of this seminal decade. […] The volume is a welcome addition to the historiography of the 1960s. There is much detail, nuance and complexity in the way in which each author reconstructs a sense of time, place, identity, movement and conflict." – Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton, in: Northern Scotland 7.1 (2016), pp. 121-124"[…] we can be grateful for this survey of the decade's tensions and developments, its passionate encounters between the generations – so well embodied in the startling illustration which adorns its cover" – David Robb, University of Dundee, in: The Bottle Imp 2014 [Full review]"The fifteen essays collected in The Scottish Sixties vividly and authoritatively map out the key events and figures through which Scotland was plugged into international artistic, cultural and social changes.There are engaging portraits of iconic individuals such as Tom McGrath (in interview with Bartie), Hamish Henderson (Corey Gibson), Ian Hamilton Finlay (Tom Normand and others) and Edwin Morgan (James McGonigal and others); and of lesserknown figures such as Margaret Tait (Duncan Petrie), D.M. Black and Kenneth Whyte (Roderick Watson)." – Greg Thomas, University of Edinburgh, in: Studies in Scottish Literature 40:1 (2014), pp. 235-240 [Full review]

• ContributorsAcknowledgementsEleanor Bell: IntroductionTom Devine: The Sixties in Scotland: A Historical ContextAngela Bartie: Explorer: Into the Sixties with Tom McGrathRoderick Watson: Scottish Poetry: The Scene and the SixtiesRichard Price: Some Questions about Literary Infrastructure in the 1960sJames McGonigal: Edwin Morgan, Hugh MacDiarmid and the Direction of the MacAvantgardeAlistair McCleery: Late News from the Provinces: The Trial of Cain’s BookSylvia Bryce-Wunder: Through Expatriate Eyes: Muriel Spark, Alexander Trocchi, and the Empowerment of Scottish Literature during the 1960sMargery Palmer McCulloch: Culture and the City: Poetry, Painting and Music in 1960s GlasgowBob Anderson: Clan Balls, Luvvers and Incredible Strings: Popular Music in 1960s GlasgowCorey Gibson: The Folkniks in the Kailyard: Hamish Henderson and the ‘Folk-song Flyting’Linda Gunn: Mind the Gap: Scottish Theatre in the 1960s?Duncan Petrie: Planting the Seeds of Ambition: Scottish Film in the 1960sJohn Corbett: Photographing Lallans: Alan Daiches, Alexander Scott and Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Poems for TelevisionTom Normand: Re-thinking ‘Provincialism’: Scotland’s Visual Culture in the 1960sIndex