Old and new world highland bagpiping /

Old and new world highland bagpiping /

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Author / Creator:	Gibson, John G. (John Graham), 1941-
Imprint:	Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002. Montr eal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2002]
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 424 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Language:	English
Series:	McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history.
Subject:	Bagpipe -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History. Bagpipe -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- History. Bagpipe music -- History and criticism. Bagpipe. Bagpipe music. Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island. Scotland -- Highlands. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11148936

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ISBN:	9780773569799 0773569790 1283529939 9781283529938 9780773522916 0773522913
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-416) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fit 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.
Other form:	Print version: Gibson, John G. (John Graham), 1941- Old and new world highland bagpiping. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002