Old And New World Highland Bagpiping

Author : John Graham Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0773522913

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Old and New World Highland Bagpiping by John Graham Gibson Pdf

Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton.The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fitted unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources. Reflecting the invaluable memories of now-deceased new world Gaelic lore-bearers, John Gibson shows that traditional community piping in both the old and new world Gàihealtachlan was, and for a long time remained, the same, exposing the distortions introduced by the tendency to interpret the written record from the perspective of modern, post-eighteenth-century bagpiping. Following up the argument in his previous book, Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945, Gibson traces the shift from tradition to modernism in the old world through detailed genealogies, focusing on how the social function of the Scottish piper changed and step-dance piping progressively disappeared. Old and New World Highland Bagpiping will stir controversy and debate in the piping world while providing reminders of the value of oral history and the importance of describing cultural phenomena with great care and detail.

Author : Dr Joshua Dickson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409493945

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The Highland Bagpipe by Dr Joshua Dickson Pdf

The Highland bagpipe, widely considered 'Scotland's national instrument', is one of the most recognized icons of traditional music in the world. It is also among the least understood. But Scottish bagpipe music and tradition - particularly, but not exclusively, the Highland bagpipe - has enjoyed an unprecedented surge in public visibility and scholarly attention since the 1990s. A greater interest in the emic led to a diverse picture of the meaning and musical iconicism of the bagpipe in communities in Scotland and throughout the Scottish diaspora. This interest has led to the consideration of both the globalization of Highland piping and piping as rooted in local culture. It has given rise to a reappraisal of sources which have hitherto formed the backbone of long-standing historical and performative assumptions. And revivalist research which reassesses Highland piping's cultural position relative to other Scottish piping traditions, such as that of the Lowlands and Borders, today effectively challenges the notion of the Highland bagpipe as Scotland's 'national' instrument. The Highland Bagpipe provides an unprecedented insight into the current state of Scottish piping studies. The contributors – from Scotland, England, Canada and the United States – discuss the bagpipe in oral and written history, anthropology, ethnography, musicology, material culture and modal aesthetics. The book will appeal to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, as well as those interested in international bagpipe studies and traditions.

Author : John Graham Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Bagpipe
ISBN : 9780773515413

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Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945 by John Graham Gibson Pdf

He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the decline of Gaelic piping. Gibson follows the emigration of the Highland Scots from the Old World to the New - to where an echo of traditional Gaelic music can still be heard.

Author : Kirsty Gunn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571282357

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The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn Pdf

The Big Music tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. Yet he has little idea of how his tune will echo or play out into the world - and as the book moves inevitably through its themes of death and birth, change and stasis, the sound of his solitary story comes to merge and connect with those around him. In this remarkable work of fiction, Kirsty Gunn has created something as real as music or as magical as a dream. One emerges at the end of it altered and changed. Not so much a novel as a place the reader comes to inhabit and know, The Big Music is a literary work of undeniable originality and power.

Author : John G. Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : John Graham Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0773521348

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Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945 by John Graham Gibson Pdf

The definitive history of traditional Scottish Gaelic bagpiping.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786416509

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The Marching Band Handbook by Anonim Pdf

This third edition of The Marching Band Handbook updates information on all areas of the marching activity, including clinicians, clinics, directors and workshops; competitions; drum corps; fund raising; indoor guard; military bands; musicians, instruments and uniforms; music selection and sources; parades; publicity and public relations; travel arrangements; trophies, awards, gifts, medals and plaques; and twirling. It provides comprehensive lists for the director, drill designer, booster, musician, guard member and twirler—where to buy instruments or batons, the location of spring and fall competition sites, judging organizations, fund-raising organizations and ideas, clinic locations, marching band music publishers, magazines covering drum corps, twirling or band.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : National characteristics, Scottish
ISBN : OSU:32435083445833

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Scottish Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joshua Dickson
Publisher : John Donald Short Run Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122271435

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When Piping was Strong by Joshua Dickson Pdf

Based on documented history and insights of local performers looking back on a lifetime of music making, Joshua Dickson examines the role of piping and pipers within Hebridean custom and how it has changed over the course of time. From this a picture emerges of a dynamic musical tradition which has adapted and survived through centuries of sweeping social change. Overall, this book is a record of the history and aesthetics of the Great Highland Bagpipe in the southern Outer Hebrides from as much of the internal Gaelic perspective as it is possible for an outsider to comprehend. Interviews with local sources were conducted in Gaelic and consideration is given to the context of traditional Gaelic social culture. It therefore fills a gap in Scottish ethnology and piping history often neglected through a lack of impetus among Gaelic-speaking scholars.

Author : Barry Shears
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015077659004

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Dance to the Piper by Barry Shears Pdf

Barry Shears is a native of Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and an acknowledged expert on the history of traditional piping in Nova Scotia and its intrinsic connection to the Gaelic language, music and culture. An award-winning musician, Barry has performed at concerts and festivals throughout North America, as well as in Scotland and Europe. He has previously published several books of bagpipe music and history.

Author : Alasdair Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000111460782

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Tales of the Morar Highlands by Alasdair Roberts Pdf

Beyond Fort William, on the road to the Isles, lies Morar, the 'Highlands of the Highlands' and centre of the 'Rough Bounds', that wild, desolate, but uniquely beautiful part of Scotland that was once the homeland of the Clan Macdonald of Clanranald, Lords of the Isles. Inspired by bards, writers and images of the past, Alasdair Roberts has collected and revitalised a huge number of traditional tales which transport the reader to the heart of this remote and beguiling landscape. "Tales of the Morar Highlands" is a book packed with extraordinary incident and remarkable characters, from mysterious loch monsters and fugitive princes to lords, priests and smugglers, as well as the ordinary people who have made this fascinating part of Scotland their home for thousands of years.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015079665454

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Histoire Sociale by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079882596

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Bibliographic Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : University of Toronto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:C083968323

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University of Toronto Quarterly by University of Toronto Pdf