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Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education, and Industry (2017)
Book Chapter
Moir, Z. (2017). Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education, and Industry. In R. Mantie, & G. D. Smith (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190244705.013.9

Many young people are involved in music making activities that may be considered as “leisure,” such as playing in bands, making recordings, or live performance. Music making, when considered as a leisure activity, is a cultural or social phenomenon t... Read More about Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education, and Industry.

Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (1-24). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317451_002

While ‘community’ as a concept has come under increasing attack in a neoliberal era, it has remained in Scotland a mythic, though not unexamined, signifier of resistance to perceived threats to national identity. Community, central to the Scottish no... Read More about Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel.

Real-time long-distance music collaboration using the Internet (2016)
Book Chapter
Ferguson, P. (2016). Real-time long-distance music collaboration using the Internet. In R. Hepworth-Sawyer, J. Hodgson, J. L. Paterson, & R. Toulson (Eds.), Innovation in Music II (174-178). Future Technology Press

The recent but rapid adoption of networked audio systems such as RedNet within the commercial and education domains is, as yet, limited to Local Area Networks (LANs) or Campus Area Networks (CANs). However, the increased connection bandwidth offered... Read More about Real-time long-distance music collaboration using the Internet.

Investigative Journalism post-print: Dead as a dodo or alive and kicking? (2016)
Book Chapter
O'Neill, E. (2016). Investigative Journalism post-print: Dead as a dodo or alive and kicking?. In Last Words: How can journalism survive the decline of print?. abramis

As print journalism sales in the UK continue to slide downwards, this chapter examines the state of investigative journalism, in both qualitative and quantitative terms.

Publish and be damned: exploring problem-based learning through the establishment of a University press (2016)
Book Chapter
Gray, A. (2016). Publish and be damned: exploring problem-based learning through the establishment of a University press. In C. Penman, & M. Foster (Eds.), Innovations in Learning and Teaching. Merchiston Publishing

A pedagogic research publication showing new teaching approaches in higher education. This collection of chapters gives voice to academics from different disciplines across Edinburgh Napier University who have all embarked on a quest to question, cha... Read More about Publish and be damned: exploring problem-based learning through the establishment of a University press.

Developing new perspectives on graphic design pedagogy and global citizenship through international volunteering. (2016)
Book Chapter
MacLeod, M. (2016). Developing new perspectives on graphic design pedagogy and global citizenship through international volunteering. In C. Penman, & M. Foster (Eds.), Innovations in learning and Teaching (185-197). Merchiston Publishing

Within the field of graphic design, many contemporary designers and educators seek to challenge global corporate homogenisation and the exploitation of developing countries. In an increasingly global economy students must develop an awareness of them... Read More about Developing new perspectives on graphic design pedagogy and global citizenship through international volunteering..

Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North (2016)
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2016). Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North. In Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North (149-166). Norvik Press

Since the 1970s, jazz from Scandinavia has represented a distinct reimagining of the erstwhile American music form with the term “Nordic tone” being liberally applied in the marketing and critical discussion of jazz from the region. While undoubtedly... Read More about Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North.

The Man of Faith: Tagore on Social Inclusion (2016)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2016). The Man of Faith: Tagore on Social Inclusion. In B. Knotkova-Capkova (Ed.), Tagore on Discriminations: Representing the Unrepresented. (1)

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Reflections on Students’ Experiences of Practical Group Projects in Media Production Education (2016)
Book Chapter
Macleod, K. (2016). Reflections on Students’ Experiences of Practical Group Projects in Media Production Education. In Innovations in Learning and Teaching (91-106). Merchiston Publishing

This chapter evaluates students' experiences of group work in media production education and investigates strategies for effective teaching and learning in that context. Working in groups can be challenging for students and for tutors supervising the... Read More about Reflections on Students’ Experiences of Practical Group Projects in Media Production Education.

The New Scots: Migration and Diaspora in Scottish South Asian Poetry (2016)
Book Chapter
Community in Modern Scottish Literature (214-234). Brill Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317451_013

This chapter examines the poetry of Scottish South Asians, the "New Scots" who bring a whole history of displacement, dislocation and relocation with them, as their memory of the "elsewhere" enters their writing. Their voices are significant as they... Read More about The New Scots: Migration and Diaspora in Scottish South Asian Poetry.

Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (82-102). Brill Academic Publishers

This chapter suggests two main related points. The overarching contention is that Hugh MacDiarmid was a poetic, political, polemical, and metaphysical impossibilist (rather than merely the extremist of caricature). More particularly, in an attempt to... Read More about Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community.

In search of community (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). In search of community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (vii-xiii). Brill Academic Publishers

Community derives from the Latin root word communis (common), which itself breaks down into two possible derivations [...]. The first, com plus munis (what is indebted, bound, or obligated together), is thought to be more philologically accurate, whi... Read More about In search of community.

Defamiliarisation, Brecht and Criticality in Graphic Design (2016)
Book Chapter
Buwert, P. (2016). Defamiliarisation, Brecht and Criticality in Graphic Design. In Modes of Criticism 2: Critique of Method (25-38)

Our lives are habitual. We habitualise what is familiar in order to be able to function day to day, and through this a vast chunk of our living becomes automatic. The process makes life easier by decreasing the confusion and tension of having to cons... Read More about Defamiliarisation, Brecht and Criticality in Graphic Design.

Data Visualisation and the Humanities (2016)
Book Chapter
Otty, L., & Thomson, T. (2016). Data Visualisation and the Humanities. In M. Hayler, & G. Griffin (Eds.), Research Methods for Creating and Curating Data in the Digital Humanities. Edinburgh University Press

No abstract available.