2026-03-10 17:40 UTC
“It looks as if a Man could Toot himself to Heaven upon the Whore of Babylon’s Bagpipes”
—how 18th-century English satirists used bagpipes to signify Jacobitism & Catholicism, & the threat to the Establishment
🎵 10 March is International Bagpipe Day! A 🎶🧵
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/the-scottish-bagpipe-political-and-religious-symbolism-in-english-literature-and-satire/
#Scotland #Scottish #music #history #culture #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay #18thcentury #satire #Jacobites
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot 2026-03-10 17:41
“Virginia Woolf’s… THE WAVES, was partly influenced by Beethoven’s quartets; Gunn’s is not just influenced by Scottish bagpipe music, it seeks to inhabit it.” —The Guardian A suitable read for International Bagpipe Day: Kirsty Gunn’s 2012 novel THE BIG MUSIC 2/6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXJ64F0uwko #Scotland #Scottish #literature #historicalfiction #music #history #culture #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay
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@twoowls73@mastodon.scot 2026-03-15 07:57
@scotlit@mastodon.scot thanks for this, a really interesting thread !