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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461499003321

Autore

Gibson John G (John Graham), <1941->

Titolo

Traditional Gaelic bagpiping, 1745-1945 [[electronic resource] /] / John G. Gibson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1998

ISBN

1-282-85905-6

9786612859052

0-7735-6890-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Disciplina

788

Soggetti

Bagpipe - Scotland - Highlands - History

Bagpipe - Nova Scotia - History

Bagpipe music - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-385) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Illustrations""; ""PART ONE: PIPING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: AN UNBROKEN TRADITION""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Roots of Jacobitism and the Disarming Act""; ""3 Policing the Gaelic Highlands after Culloden""; ""4 Postscript on the Disarming Act""; ""PART TWO: MILITARY PIPING, 1746�83""; ""5 Military Piping in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries""; ""6 Piping in Four Eighteenth-Century Regiments""; ""7 Highland Pipers in the American Revolutionary War and in India""; ""PART THREE: REPERTOIRE OF CIVILIAN AND MILITARY PIPERS, c. 1750�1820""

""8 Exclusivity of Repertoire: The Evidence Against""""9 The ""Revival"" of Ceòl Mór""; ""10 Ceòl Beag and Dance-Music Piping""; ""11 The Small-Pipe, the Quickstep, and the College""; ""PART FOUR: TRADITION AND CHANGE IN THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW""; ""12 The Turning Point, 1790�1850: Innovation and Conservatism in Scotland""; ""13 Influences on Piping in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia: The Middle Class, the Church, and Temperance""; ""14 Transition to Modern Piping in Scotland and Nova Scotia""; ""15 Highland Games and Competition Piping""; ""16 Traditional Pipers in Nova Scotia""



""17 The Survival of Tradition in Nova Scotia""""APPENDICES""; ""1 The Disarming Act, 1746""; ""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""; ""3 Letter from William Mackenzie, Piper""; ""4 Other Immigrant Ceòl Mór Pipers""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""