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Journal article
Myth-Making Through Music: The “lost songs” of St Kilda
Shima, Vol.11(2), pp.185-204
02/10/2017
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Abstract
The Lost Songs of St Kilda is an album of piano pieces reportedly taught to a Scottish mainlander by a St Kildan music teacher. The album comprises of piano recordings, performed by the mainlander, Trevor Morrison, together with orchestral arrangements of the pieces and was released in September 2016. It reached the top of the British classical music chart shortly after and became the fastest selling posthumously released debut album in British chart history. This paper explores how a contemporary recording of songs reportedly from St Kilda has captured the British fascination with a “remote” place and a “lost” island society in a manner that represents what might be termed “thana-islomania”. The article will suggest that the contemporary recordings and the packaging of the album act in concert to create emotional geographies of St Kilda that are constructed in a mythical place-time, a “mythscape”.
Details
- Title
- Myth-Making Through Music: The “lost songs” of St Kilda
- Creators
- Sarah MacKinnonMichael Hannan - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Shima, Vol.11(2), pp.185-204
- Publisher
- Macquarie University * Division of Humanities
- Identifiers
- 991012926977602368
- Copyright
- The journal is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article