Outputs (17)

Vivid Stories: Oral Histories, Collective Memory, and the Scottish Jazz Scene (2024)
Book Chapter
Medbøe, H., Maclean, D., & Raine, S. (2024). Vivid Stories: Oral Histories, Collective Memory, and the Scottish Jazz Scene. In Á. Havas, B. Johnson, & D. Horn (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003212638-49

This chapter draws on the production and content of the Scottish Jazz Archive (SJA) oral histories collection alongside interviews with Scottish jazz musicians. Specifically, we consider how the Scottish jazz community is co-creating its own diaspori... Read More about Vivid Stories: Oral Histories, Collective Memory, and the Scottish Jazz Scene.

Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: A filmmaker’s perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Maclean, D. (2024). Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: A filmmaker’s perspective. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(4), 540-557. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494231159342

If Gaelic has been symbolically appropriated to represent Scotland, then it follows that we need to look more closely at the part played by documentary film both of and from the Scottish Hebrides, in furthering the dissemination of what is an idealis... Read More about Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: A filmmaker’s perspective.

Oral histories in the Scottish Jazz Scene (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D. (2022, August). Oral histories in the Scottish Jazz Scene. Paper presented at Jazz Then and Now, Amsterdam

Islay Jazz Festival (2020)
Journal Article
Medboe, H., & Maclean, D. (2020). Islay Jazz Festival. Jazz Research Journal, 12(2), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.40304

This article considers the ecologies and stakeholder interests that overlap in the staging of an annual jazz festival on a small Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides. Through interviews with festival promoters, performers and audience members, along... Read More about Islay Jazz Festival.

Jazz Stories: Oral History and Subjectivity in Curating a National Archive (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D., & Medboe, H. (2020, February). Jazz Stories: Oral History and Subjectivity in Curating a National Archive. Paper presented at International Conference on Oral History, London

From the Crofthouse to the Cutting Room: Mediated Memory and Identity Construction in the Gaelic-speaking Hebrides of Scotland, Nostalgia (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D. (2020, February). From the Crofthouse to the Cutting Room: Mediated Memory and Identity Construction in the Gaelic-speaking Hebrides of Scotland, Nostalgia. Paper presented at 2nd Global Interdisciplinary Conference, Amsterdam

Commission, Position and Production: Intent and Intervention in Minority Language Programmes (2019)
Book Chapter
Maclean, D. (2019). Commission, Position and Production: Intent and Intervention in Minority Language Programmes. In C. Batty, M. Berry, K. Dooley, B. Frankham, & S. Kerrigan (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production (19-31). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21744-0_2

This chapter uses documentaries to examine the processes, thinking and practices that a filmmaker undergoes, from the initial idea through to production. It will consider how the documentary filmmaker’s ideas and ‘intent’ is mediated and changed by c... Read More about Commission, Position and Production: Intent and Intervention in Minority Language Programmes.

Oral History Methodologies (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D. (2018, May). Oral History Methodologies. Paper presented at 12th International Jazz Research Conference, Graz, Austria

Gaelic Television: Building Bricks without Straw (2018)
Journal Article
Maclean, D. (2018). Gaelic Television: Building Bricks without Straw. International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen, 11(1), 6-28

This article considers the role and place of Gaelic television output looking at how Gaelic content was delivered prior to the creation of BBC Alba in 2008 and up to the present day. It compares the contradictory way in which it is has been viewed ex... Read More about Gaelic Television: Building Bricks without Straw.

The Angel's Share: Jazz, Whisky and the Rural Economy (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D. (2017, May). The Angel's Share: Jazz, Whisky and the Rural Economy. Paper presented at Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in European Festivals, Sienna