The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared. Few recordings were ever made of traditional pipe music and there are almost no Gaelic-speaking pipers of the old school left. Recording an important aspect of Gaelic culture before it disappears, John Gibson chronicles the decline of traditional Highland Gaelic bagpiping - and Gaelic culture as a whole - and provides examples of traditional bagpipe music that have survived in the New World.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 788.4/9094115
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- e-uk-st
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- 9780773568907 0773521348
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- ML980
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- G53 2000eb
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- 1 electronic text (424 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00211324 (OCoLC)191819201 (CaOOCEL)407546
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- Illustrations 14
- PART ONE: PIPING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: AN UNBROKEN TRADITION 20
- 1 Introduction 22
- 2 The Roots of Jacobitism and the Disarming Act 33
- 3 Policing the Gaelic Highlands after Culloden 55
- 4 Postscript on the Disarming Act 76
- PART TWO: MILITARY PIPING, 1746–83 84
- 5 Military Piping in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 86
- 6 Piping in Four Eighteenth-Century Regiments 97
- 7 Highland Pipers in the American Revolutionary War and in India 114
- PART THREE: REPERTOIRE OF CIVILIAN AND MILITARY PIPERS, c. 1750–1820 124
- 8 Exclusivity of Repertoire: The Evidence Against 126
- 9 The "Revival" of Ceòl Mór 144
- 10 Ceòl Beag and Dance-Music Piping 152
- 11 The Small-Pipe, the Quickstep, and the College 174
- PART FOUR: TRADITION AND CHANGE IN THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW 184
- 12 The Turning Point, 1790–1850: Innovation and Conservatism in Scotland 186
- 13 Influences on Piping in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia: The Middle Class, the Church, and Temperance 205
- 14 Transition to Modern Piping in Scotland and Nova Scotia 225
- 15 Highland Games and Competition Piping 242
- 16 Traditional Pipers in Nova Scotia 258
- 17 The Survival of Tradition in Nova Scotia 270
- APPENDICES 277
- 1 The Disarming Act, 1746 277
- 2 An Act to amend and enforce so much of an Act ... as relates to the more effectual disarming of the Highlands in Scotland, 1748 290
- 3 Letter from William Mackenzie, Piper 292
- 4 Other Immigrant Ceòl Mór Pipers 294
- Notes 300
- Bibliography 372
- Index 406
- A 406
- B 407
- C 408
- D 410
- E 410
- F 411
- G 411
- H 413
- I 413
- J 414
- K 414
- L 414
- M 415
- N 421
- O 421
- P 421
- Q 422
- R 422
- S 423
- T 424
- U 424
- V 424
- W 424
- Y 425
