Gaelic Cape Breton Step Dancing

Author : John G. Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773550612

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Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing by John G. Gibson Pdf

The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845. The Scotch Gael has been reported as loving dance, but step-dancing in Scotland had all but disappeared by 1945. One must look to Gaelic Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Antigonish County, to find this tradition. Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing, the first study of its kind, gives this art form and the people and culture associated with it the prominence they have long deserved. Gaelic Scotland’s cultural record is by and large pre-literate, and references to dance have had to be sought in Gaelic songs, many of which were transcribed on paper by those who knew their culture might be lost with the decline of their language. The improved Scottish culture depended proudly on the teaching of dancing and the literate learning and transmission of music in accompaniment. Relying on fieldwork in Nova Scotia, and on mentions of dance in Gaelic song and verse in Scotland and Nova Scotia, John Gibson traces the historical roots of step-dancing, particularly the older forms of dancing originating in the Gaelic–speaking Scottish Highlands. He also places the current tradition as a development and part of the much larger British and European percussive dance tradition. With insight collected through written sources, tales, songs, manuscripts, book references, interviews, and conversations, Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing brings an important aspect of Gaelic history to the forefront of cultural debate.

Author : John Graham Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethn
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0773550593

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Gaelic Cape Breton Step-dancing by John Graham Gibson Pdf

Placing the phenomenon of Gaelic Cape Breton step-dancing into an historical perspective.

Author : Mats Melin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 1772060283

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One with the Music: Cape Breton Step Dan by Mats Melin Pdf

Swedish-born traditional dancer and researcher Mats Melin has worked and performed extensively in the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, in their schools and communities promoting Scottish traditional dance. He has also taught and performed in Sweden, Canada, USA, Russia and New Zealand. Mats has a vast knowledge of all aspects of the Scottish traditional dance scene, but specializes in Cape Breton step dancing. One With the Music is informed, in part, by Melin's PhD research on transmission practices-how the tradition and steps of generations of dancers in Cape Breton get passed on to subsequent generations. His research gives us insight not only into the processes of transmission, but also into the complex ways dance and music in Cape Breton are deeply ingrained in the island's culture. In this book, the home, classroom and square-dance contexts-and, to some extent, concerts-are examined and analyzed following years of interviews and participation.

Author : Mats Melin,Jennifer Schoonover
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000334333

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Dance Legacies of Scotland by Mats Melin,Jennifer Schoonover Pdf

Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices. Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover explore the historical references describing percussive dancing to illustrate how widespread the practice was, giving some glimpses of what it looked and sounded like. The authors also explain what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from Scottish dancing practices. Their research draws together fieldwork, references from historical sources in English, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic, and insights drawn from the authors’ practical knowledge of dances. They portray the complex network of dance dialects that existed in parallel across Scotland, and share how remnants of this vibrant tradition have endured in Scotland and the Scottish diaspora to the present day. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Dance and Music and its relationship to the history and culture of Scotland.

Author : J. F. Flett,T. M. Flett
Publisher : State Mutual Book & Periodical Service
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : IND:30000055972628

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Traditional Step-dancing in Scotland by J. F. Flett,T. M. Flett Pdf

Traditional Step-dancing in Scotland focuses on the history of solo step-dancing including the Sword Dance, Highland Fling & Clog dancing. The subject is fully researched and illustrated, and also contains step dancing from Nova Scotia.

Author : Catherine E. Foley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317050049

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Step Dancing in Ireland by Catherine E. Foley Pdf

For many people step dancing is associated mainly with the Irish step-dance stage shows, Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, which assisted both in promoting the dance form and in placing Ireland globally. But, in this book, Catherine Foley illustrates that the practice and contexts of step dancing are much more complicated and fluid. Tracing the trajectory of step dancing in Ireland, she tells its story from roots in eighteenth-century Ireland to its diverse cultural manifestations today. She examines the interrelationships between step dancing and the changing historical and cultural contexts of colonialism, nationalism, postcolonialism and globalization, and shows that step dancing is a powerful tool of embodiment and meaning that can provoke important questions relating to culture and identity through the bodies of those who perform it. Focusing on the rural European region of North Kerry in the south-west of Ireland, Catherine Foley examines three step-dance practices: one, the rural Molyneaux step-dance practice, representing the end of a relatively long-lived system of teaching by itinerant dancing masters in the region; two, Rinceoirí na Ríochta, a dance school representative of the urbanized staged, competition orientated practice, cultivated by the cultural nationalist movement, the Gaelic League, established at the end of the nineteenth century, and practised today both in Ireland and abroad; and three, the stylized, commoditized, folk-theatrical practice of Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland, established in North Kerry in the 1970s. Written from an ethnochoreological perspective, Catherine Foley provides a rich historical and ethnographic account of step dancing, step dancers and cultural institutions in Ireland.

Author : Patricia H Ballantyne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429784132

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Scottish Dance Beyond 1805 by Patricia H Ballantyne Pdf

Scottish Dance Beyond 1805 presents a history of Scottish music and dance over the last 200 years, with a focus on sources originating in Aberdeenshire, when steps could be adapted in any way the dancer pleased. The book explains the major changes in the way that dance was taught and performed by chronicling the shift from individual dancing masters to professional, licensed members of regulatory societies. This ethnographical study assesses how dances such as the Highland Fling have been altered and how standardisation has affected contemporary Highland dance and music, by examining the experience of dancers and pipers. It considers reactions to regulation and standardisation through the introduction to Scotland of percussive step dance and caller-facilitated ceilidh dancing. Today’s Highland dancing is a standardised and international form of dance. This book tells the story of what changed over the last 200 years and why. It unfolds through a series of colourful characters, through the dances they taught and the music they danced to and through the story of one dance in particular, the Highland Fling. It considers how Scottish dance reflected changes in Scottish society and culture. The book will be of interest to scholars and postgraduates in the fields of Dance History, Ethnomusicology, Ethnochoreology, Ethnology and Folklore, Cultural History, Scottish Studies and Scottish Traditional Music as well as to teachers, judges and practitioners of Highland dancing and to those interested in the history of Scottish dance, music and culture.

Author : Wendy Garofoli
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Folk dancing
ISBN : 9781429613514

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Irish Step Dancing by Wendy Garofoli Pdf

Describes Irish Step dancing, including history and basic steps.

Author : Murray Stewart Leith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748681426

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Modern Scottish Diaspora by Murray Stewart Leith Pdf

Explores the connectedness of the diaspora to the homeland from a variety of different perspectivesThis book explores a range of different perspectives on the Scottish diaspora, reflecting a growing interest in the subject from academics, politicians and policy makers and coinciding with Scotland's second year of homecoming in 2014. The Scottish Government has actively developed a diaspora strategy, not least in order to encourage 'roots tourism', as those individuals of Scots descent come back to visit their 'homeland' diaspora. Key FeaturesExamines the importance of links within the Scottish diaspora for Scots both at home and abroad.Multi-disciplinary perspectives from literature to sportOf interest to policy makers, genealogists, tourism bodies, politicians and general publicThe Scots form one of the world's largest diasporas, with around 30 million people worldwide claiming a Scottish ancestry. There are few countries around the globe without a Caledonian Society, a Burns Club, a Scottish country dance society, or similar organisation. The diaspora is therefore of interest to politicians, to public policy makers and to Scottish business; as well as to those working in the media, in sport, in literature and in music.

Author : Sheldon MacInnes
Publisher : Goose Lane Editions
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015040194071

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A Journey in Celtic Music--Cape Breton Style by Sheldon MacInnes Pdf

Author : Glenn Graham
Publisher : Sydney, N.S. : Cape Breton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000115692554

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The Cape Breton Fiddle by Glenn Graham Pdf

In the Cape Breton Fiddle, Glenn Graham, an accomplished Cape Breton fiddler, explores the rootes of the Cape BReton fiddling tradition, an art firmly rooted in Scottish Gaelic cultural forms, through an evolution that has made Cape BReton an icon of creativity recognized throughout the world.

Author : Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810881778

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Island Songs by Godfrey Baldacchino Pdf

"Through the close analysis of musical performance and tradition, the scholarly contributiors to Island Songs provide a global review of how island songs, their lyrics, and their singers engage with the challenges of modernity, migration, and social change uncovering common patterns despite the diversity and local character of their subjects"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Heather Sparling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 192749298X

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Reeling Roosters and Dancing Ducks by Heather Sparling Pdf

Though puirt-a-beul are popular with both Gaelic-speaking and non-Gaelic speaking audiences, this book offers the first comprehensive study of the genre. Heather Sparling considers how puirt-a-beul compare to other forms of global mouth music and examines its origins, its musical and lyrical characteristics, and its functions. Sparling brings together years of research, including an array of historical references to puirt-a-beul, interviews with Gaelic singers in both Scotland and Nova Scotia, observations of puirt-a-beul performances on both sides of the Atlantic as well as on recordings, and analysis of melodies and lyrics. Her Nova Scotia viewpoint allows her to consider puirt-a-beul in both its Scottish and diaspora contexts, a perspective that is too often absent in studies of Gaelic song.

Author : Anna Hoefnagels,Judith Klassen,Sherry Johnson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780228000143

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Contemporary Musical Expressions in Canada by Anna Hoefnagels,Judith Klassen,Sherry Johnson Pdf

Music and dance in Canada today are diverse and expansive, reflecting histories of travel, exchange, and interpretation and challenging conceptions of expressive culture that are bounded and static. Reflecting current trends in ethnomusicology, Contemporary Musical Expressions in Canada examines cultural continuity, disjuncture, intersection, and interplay in music and dance across the country. Essays reconsider conceptual frameworks through which cultural forms are viewed, critique policies meant to encourage crosscultural sharing, and address ways in which traditional forms of expression have changed to reflect new contexts and audiences. From North Indian kathak dance, Chinese lion dance, early Toronto hip hop, and contemporary cantor practices within the Byzantine Ukrainian Church in Canada to folk music performances in twentieth-century Quebec, Gaelic milling songs in Cape Breton, and Mennonite songs in rural Manitoba, this collection offers detailed portraits of contemporary music practices and how they engage with diverse cultural expressions and identities. At a historical moment when identity politics, multiculturalism, diversity, immigration, and border crossings are debated around the world, Contemporary Musical Expressions in Canada demonstrates the many ways that music and dance practices in Canada engage with these broader global processes. Contributors include Rebecca Draisey-Collishaw (Queen's University), Meghan Forsyth (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Monique Giroux (University of Lethbridge), Ian Hayes (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Anna Hoefnagels (Carleton University), Judith Klassen (Canadian Museum of History), Chris McDonald (Cape Breton University), Colin McGuire (University College Cork), Marcia Ostashewski (Cape Breton University), Laura Risk (McGill University), Neil Scobie (University Western Ontario), Gordon Smith (Queen's University), Heather Sparling (Cape Breton University), Jesse Stewart (Carleton University), Janice Esther Tulk (Cape Breton University), Margaret Walker (Queen's University), and Louise Wrazen (York University).

Author : Helen Brennan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781493069989

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The Story of Irish Dance by Helen Brennan Pdf

From early accounts of dance customs in medieval Ireland to the present, Helen Brennan offers an authoritative look at the evolution of Irish dance. Every type of dance from social to traditional to clergy is included. Brennan takes care to explain the different styles and traditions that evolved from different parts of Ireland; which results in some lively discussions as people reminisce over old favorites. She also discusses how dance evolved to become such an important part of Ireland's culture and history. An appendix is offered to help explain the various steps involved in each style of dance including the Munster or Southern style, Single Shuffle, Double Shuffle, Treble Shuffle, the Heel Plant, the Cut, the Rock or Puzzle, the Drum, the Sean Nos Dance Style of Connemara, and the Northern Style.