Voicing Scotland takes the reader on a discovery tour through Scotland’s traditional music and song culture, past and present. West unravels the strings that link many of our contemporary musicians, singers and poets with those of the past, offering up to our ears these voices which deserve to be more loudly heard. What do they say to us in the 21st Century? What is the role of tradition in the contemporary world? Can there be a folk culture in the digital age? What next for the traditional arts? Voicing Scotland was shortlisted for the 2012 Trad Music In The Media Award (sponsored by The Saltire Society) at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards.
'An engrossing assessment of where Scottish traditional music stands at a time of resonant political developments in the nations history... A volume so richly suffused with personal recollection, music, song and anecdote, both archival and contemporary, is begging for good radio treatment.' --The Scotsman
