Known as The Duke, Edward Kennedy Ellington was considered amongst the world’s greatest composers and musicians, who reached out and touched a worldwide audience in a fashion that may never be equalled.
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Bookseller Karyn Dougan, from our Glasgow Argyle Street bookshop, reads a new collection of essays on Scottish independence and wonders exactly what a "yes" vote might mean for her nation's culture... Delete the scoop?
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No country can afford to have its culture devalued in this way, no culture can afford to be defined as ‘out of history’. Delete the scoop?
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Once infamous for its deprivation and crime, Castlemilk in Glasgow now has a new reputation, for producing actors honed in schools where drama is now seen as 'hardcore'... Delete the scoop?
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Tim Barrow explains why he believes modern story tellers – particularly those involved in film and theatre – have a vital role to play in creating Scotland’s cultural and political future in the run-up to the independence referendum in 2014. Delete the scoop?
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EDINBURGH will become the centre of the world's artistic political elite every two years, in a regular series of summits for arts ministers.
Jonathan Mills, the artistic director of the Edinburgh International Festival, which unveils its ambitious 2012 programme today, has revealed plans for the Scottish capital to host biennial August meetings of more than 40 government arts ministers.
The group will not only meet and discuss policy and partnerships, but take in the cultural offerings of the annual festival, Fringe, and book festival.
The first International Culture Summit will take place on August 13 and 14, during the Edinburgh Festival and just after the close of the 2012 London Olympics. Delete the scoop?
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In 1964, Hamish Henderson and Hugh MacDiarmid engaged in their second, and most important, round of “flytings” – intense but respectful poetic competitions between Scottish makaris. Through correspondence in the Scotsman, what began as a discussion of the worth of Scottish folk song became a fiery argument about the role of the artist and thinker in society, which Henderson described as “taking on with every letter more and more of the high mottled complexion of a Celtic flyting.” Macdiarmid insisted that real culture resides in the intellectuals, whose interests are identical to those of the masses, because the function of the creative artist “is the extension of human consciousness.” Henderson, however, believed that true culture arose in the people. This exchange took place through public correspondence. Delete the scoop?
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Each week we offer you five great things, sites, events, people or projects which we think are Bella-isimo. 1. Come and Have a Go if you Think Your Bard Enough. [...] Delete the scoop?
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Creative Scotland and the culture sector are to receive relatively small cuts in the Scottish government's draft budget for 2013/14, published on Thursday at Holyrood. Delete the scoop?
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Who and what has shaped some of Scotland's most creative minds? Delete the scoop?
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