Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to embrace digital ways of producing work and reaching audiences in the hard-hit sectors such as performing arts. In the context of post-pandemic recovery, this paper explores the notion of digital performance and proposes a framework for...

The chapter focuses on the visual arts sector in Scotland, one of the most accessible, and accessed, arts sectors in the UK. Scotland has a rich variety of art galleries and exhibition spaces with excellent collections of paintings, sculpture, photography and crafts. The appeal of the visual arts ...

There remains little academic consensus on a definition of rural marketing, and as a concept, rural marketing has therefore struggled to establish its own vocabulary and ideas. Modi (2009) argues that rural marketing should be defined in terms of the impact it has on the developmental of rural...

The chapter examines professional drama in Scotland and discusses a series of key trends and indicators covering theatres and other venues for drama. Grant-aided and commercial sectors are included, and the manner in which drama in Scotland is funded is discussed. Dance and mime are also examined....

The Edinburgh "Festival" positions the city via creativity. Its success in attracting audiences for the performing arts contrasts with the limited extent it appears to modify the general image of Scotland among its tourists. Three styles of consumption are considered: Edinburgh as a...

This article attempts to discuss the delicate relationship between the arts and international politics and the instrumental role the arts may play in international relations. The paper sets the Cold War as the stage and uses the Edinburgh International Festival as the subject of research to trace...

This paper reports findings from a recent large-scale survey of Physical Education (PE) teachers' perceptions of teaching dance and compares them to results of a study completed 10 years previously [MacLean, J. (2007). A longitudinal study to ascertain the factors that impact on the confidence of...

Music has always played an important role in Scottish life. Access to traditional music is provided through an extensive network of local promoters and festivals. In more recent times, Scotland has produced some of the UK's most successful and innovative rock bands. The findings of a 1991 survey on ...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to establish the image and associated impression of atmosphere created by independent theatres at two fringe festivals namely, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Melbourne Festival Fringe. Design/methodology/approach - The paper contains a content analysis of...

This paper explores the narratives of participants in museum community engagement projects in Scotland. Emphasis is placed on how taking part in museum community engagement projects can have a positive impact on the participants' wellbeing. This qualitative study employed a dialogical research...