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1. Lost and Found: Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Part One. A Very Personal Ameripolitan Story.  By John M. Davis

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 3, 2018

In series of 5 posts John Davis reviews Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue’s new album Lost and Found.  This first post summarises the different characters that emerge across the album; […]

2. Lost and Found: Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Part Two: The Punk Rock Patsy Cline. By John M. Davis

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 3, 2018

At a time where listeners are looking for authenticity, Niemann is the real deal; heartfelt, honest and uncontrived.  She does for country music what Amy Winehouse did for  the blues/jazz sounds. Winehouse’s […]

3. Lost and Found: Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Part Three: When Melancholy Collides With Specificity It Makes You Cry. By John M. Davis

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 3, 2018

  This third post continues our review of Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue’s new album Lost and Found.  In particular it discusses how Vanessa Niemann has married the tradition of […]

4. Lost and Found: Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Part Four: Cause He Looks So Damn Pretty – So Unrefined. By John M. Davis

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 3, 2018

This post continues our review of Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue’s new album; Lost and Found.  It discusses four of the songs on the album that include morality tales, Desert […]

5. Lost and Found: Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Part Five: I Might Not Be Back This Way Again By John M. Davis

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 3, 2018

In this final blog post we conclude our revue of Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue‘s new album Lost and Found by discussing the songs How Could It Be and Wayward […]

Françoise Hardy Contemplates Le Large Like No One Else.

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on April 6, 2018

By John M Davis Today, April 6th 2018 , the ever stylish Françoise Hardy is releasing a new album on Parlophone.  Her 28th French album is entitled, “Personne d’autre” (see link here). […]

Oh Dear Me, A Childhood ‘Thrawn’ and ‘Chided’, Requires An Education System Less Ill-Divided! By Christina Milarvie Quarrell and John Davis

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on February 27, 2018

Christina Milarvie Quarrell is a Poet Photographer Artist born and raised in the Govanhill Gorbals communities. Her work celebrates the values of people before profit.  Art is her passion and she utilises […]

1. Demystifying Creative Pedagogy in Early Learning and Play: The Professional Context:

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on September 27, 2017

John Davis is the Professor of Childhood Inclusion at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of the SSSC Taking the First Steps report that evaluated the impact of the BA Childhood […]

2. Demystifying Creative Pedagogy in Early Learning and Play: Critiquing Technical Rational Ideas of ‘Quality’

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on September 27, 2017

This post by John Davis continues our discussion concerning pedagogy in order to explain the political context of our work. It questions rigid notions of ‘quality’ that impose inflexible ‘norms’ on our […]

3. Demystifying Creative Pedagogy in Early Learning and Play: Enabling Holistic, Anti-discriminatory, Socially Just and Inclusive Pedagogy:

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on September 27, 2017

  The first post in this series of 3 posts argued that pedagogy is the space where we analyse, enquire, evaluate and reflect on the way we work with children.  It criticised approaches […]

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