The Glories of Scotland in Picture and Song: Jumping on the Festival of Britain Bandwagon?

Karen McAulay

The Glories of Scotland in Picture and Song: Jumping on the Festival of Britain Bandwagon?

Karen McAulay

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Scottish music publishers flourished in Glasgow and Edinburgh until the mid-twentieth century, declining due to provincialism, the increase of recorded media and decrease in domestic music-making. Publishing tartan-covered Scottish songs, fiddle tunes and other dance repertoire was core to the success of Kerr’s and Mozart Allan.

Mozart Allan’s The Glories of Scotland differs from earlier songbooks, as proprietor Jack Fletcher seemingly had the Festival of Britain (1951) in mind.

Post-war Britain pushed to inspire optimism at home and abroad; tourism was encouraged. Fletcher approached the Scottish Tourist Board and British Railways for illustrations to accompany his book, but shrewdly, half of the repertoire derived from the slightly earlier, Scotland Calling. The numbers of surviving copies of each are telling.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Print and Tourism
Subtitle of host publication	: Travel-Related Publications from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century.
Editors	Catherine Armstrong, Elaine Jackson
Publisher	Peter Lang
Chapter	8
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published or Performed - Jul 2026

Publication series

Name	Centre for Printing History and Culture (CPHC) series
Publisher	Peter Lang

Keywords

Scottish culture
Tourism
Scottish songs
Music publishing
Scottish social history

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Print and Tourism: : Travel-Related Publications from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century.. ed. / Catherine Armstrong; Elaine Jackson. Peter Lang, 2026. (Centre for Printing History and Culture (CPHC) series).

Research output: Contributions to books, editions, reports or conference proceedings › Chapter › peer-review

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