Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-282) and index.

Understanding Scotland musically / Simon McKerrell and Gary West -- Traditional music and cultural sensibility in Scotland / Simon McKerrell -- 'A sense of who we are': the cultural value of community-based traditional music in Scotland / Josephine L. Miller -- The emergence of the 'traditional arts' in Scotland's cultural policy / David Francis -- 'Eun bheag chanaidh' where the Gaelic arts and non-traditional theatre meet: a song discussion / Fiona J. Mackenzie -- Referendum reflections: traditional music and the performance of politics in the campaign for Scottish independence / Mairi McFadyen -- The changing nature of conceptualisation and authenticity among Scottish traditional musicians: traditional music, conservatoire education and the case for post-revivalism / Joshua Dickson -- Slaying the tartan monster: hybridisation in recent Scottish music / Meghan McAvoy -- 'It happens in ballads': Scotland, utopia and traditional song in The strange undoing of Prudencia Hart / Stphe Harrop -- The problem with 'traditional' / David McGuinness -- Salsa Celtica's great Scottish Latin adventure: an insider's view / Phil Alexander -- Distant voices, Scottish lives: on songs and migration / M. J. Grant -- The globalization of Highland dancing / Patricia H. Ballantyne -- Locating indentity in the aural aspects of Thomas Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry: a bibliographic perspective / Stuart Eydmann -- Links with the past in the present-day performance of Scottish fiddle music: or, the historicity of tradition / Ronnie Gibson -- Wynds, vennels and dual carriageways: the changing nature of Scottish music / Karen E. Macaulay -- Understanding Scotland musically: reflections on place, war and nation / Gary West -- Afterword / Simon Frith.