As previous posts show, my research is throwing up some interesting\u00a0references to attitudes to jazz in Scotland in the 1920s and 30s, how this was seen as a threat to traditional music and how our native folk music was an antidote to this foreign infection. F. Marian McNeill, writing in the Scotsman on 28 September 1933, offered the Celtic harp\u00a0as ideal alternative to the modern music:<\/p>\n
The re-awakening of the national spirit in Scotland to-day is affecting every department of the national life, and the sap is stirring down in the ancient Celtic roots of our civilisation. To a palate jaded with jazz, how grateful the mellow, woodland notes of the clarsach.<\/em><\/p>\n This is fairly new ground in Scottish traditional music studies and I plan to return to the theme in some depth in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As previous posts show, my research is throwing up some interesting\u00a0references to attitudes to jazz in Scotland in the 1920s and 30s, how this was seen as a threat to traditional music and how our native folk music was an … Continue reading