Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2024)
Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.2
Explains the background for this special issue, Hugh MacDiarmid at 100, in the Scottish Revival Network’s conference in August 2022, which marked the centenary of Hugh MacDiar...
'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2024)
'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 28-49. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.4
Examines C. M. Grieve’s (Hugh MacDiarmid’s) most important journal enterprise, The Scottish Chapbook, which critics have assumed marks the beginning of a modernist Scottish re...
Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2024)
Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 183-185. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.11
Provides the biographical context and publication history for Denis Saurat’s essay ‘Le groupe de “la Renaissance Écossaise”’, which included Saurat’s French translation of som...
The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy
Journal Article
Donn, R., Stillie, B., & Moir, Z. (2024)
The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy. Music Education Research, 26(1), 58-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2024.2309204
This article, which is intended as a contribution to wider conversations around music literacy, explores current conceptions of music literacy within the UK, using the area of...
Book Review: Richard Alan Barlow. Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (in press)
Book Review: Richard Alan Barlow. Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies,
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2024)
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival. In G. Carruthers (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature (127-139). Wiley-Blackwell
The Scottish literary renaissance is a paradox. Imagining Scottish history as a series of catastrophes – Reformation, Union, Enlightenment, industrialisation – the renaissance...
Green in Blue: The environmental impacts of jazz production and consumption
Journal Article
Medboe, H. (2023)
Green in Blue: The environmental impacts of jazz production and consumption. Jazz Research Journal, 16(2), 129-146
This article examines environmental consequences in the manufacture and dissemination of recorded jazz alongside the ecological impacts of jazz festivals as sites of fandom an...
Jurassic Plants: The Botanical Worlds of Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993)
Journal Article
Alder, E. (in press)
Jurassic Plants: The Botanical Worlds of Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993). Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isad075
Modernism and the Scottish Renaissance
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (in press)
Modernism and the Scottish Renaissance. In Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia to Scottish Literature. New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell
‘Keeping the Machines Alive’: Repairing and Maintaining the Fairlight CMI.
Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P. (2023, June)
‘Keeping the Machines Alive’: Repairing and Maintaining the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at Innovation In Music Conference 2023, Edinburgh, UK
The story of the Fairlight CMI is a story of misuse. Designed primarily as a digital synthesizer for the imitation of acoustic instruments, it was used in the worlds of popula...