ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses the exponential growth of its mediatisation since 1945. There are many types of publications associated with Scottish traditional music, and divided into two categories: first, publications dealing with the culture and reception of Scottish traditional music and, second, local or special interest publications devoted to particular instrumental or local traditions. One of the great benefits of mediatisation history of musical and community emigration and colonialism is that there are many voices that can claim authenticity of Scottish traditional music from different perspectives around the world. One of the key results of mediatisation has been the emergence in the opening years of the twenty-first century of the commercial genre of Celtic music. The process of mediatisation is different and it refers at heart to the increasing significance and power of the media in our shared understandings of how the world is, and what is real in society.
