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Traditional Gaelic bagpiping, 1745-1945 /
"John Gibson pieces together the history of eighteenth-century West Highland pipers and piping and documents their changing social conditions after the suppression of the last Jacobite rebellion. Challenging the conventional view that the decline of piping was caused by the ban of Culloden pipe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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 Against9 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 ScotiaAPPENDICES
- 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
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