Abstract: This chapter discusses Dundee's musical culture during the inter-war period. It shows that musical life in Dundee was shaped by the distinctive blend of economic, social, and cultural variables which affected other aspects of life in the city. For this, arguably the most thoroughly working-class of Scottish cities, it was the reinvigoration of Scottish traditional music, the greater exposure to American cinema (and concomitantly, the soundtracks of Hollywood musicals), and the particular empathy with the evolving blues and country music of the poor North American underclass, which characterised this period in Dundee's musical history and which influenced audiences and musicians in the decades that followed.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-02-24
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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