Gaelic Cape Breton step-dancing : an historical and ethnographic perspective /

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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gibson, John G. (John Graham), 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. 43.
Subjects:
Step dancing > Nova Scotia > Cape Breton Island > History.
Step dancing > Scotland > History.
Gigue (Danse) > Nouvelle-Écosse > Cap-Breton, Île du > Histoire.
Gigue (Danse) > Écosse > Histoire.
GAMES > Reference.
GAMES > Travel Games.
Manners and customs.
Step dancing.
Steptanz.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) > Social life and customs.
Scotland > Social life and customs.
Cap-Breton, Île du (N.-É.) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Écosse > Mœurs et coutumes.
Nova Scotia > Cape Breton Island.
Scotland.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The religious background in Scotland, 1746-1846
  • Step-dancing in Catholic Gaelic Cape Breton and northeastern Nova Scotia from 1790
  • The Mary "Tulloch" Macdonald phenomenon examined
  • Dancing in the Catholic Margarees, Glendale, and Boisdale
  • The Gluasad Gàidhealach/Gaelic movement in Cape Breton, 1919-46
  • Step-dancing in Presbyterian Cape Breton from 1790
  • The evidence for step-dancing in Scotland, 1775-1848
  • Dancing in moderate Presbyterian Gaelic parishes in Scotland
  • Dancing in inland Gaelic Strathspey and northwestern Perthshire
  • Changes in dancing in Gaelic Scotland : the dancing record from Gaelic songs, 1850-85
  • The four doctors, an t-Òranaiche/The songster, and others, 1879-1914
  • Scottish attitudes to dance : twentieth-century letters from Gaelic Scotland
  • Dancing schools and dancing-masters in Gaelic Scotland, 1775-1845
  • Last words : a Scottish country dancing enigma.

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