Old And New World Highland Bagpiping
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Old And New World Highland Bagpiping
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Author : John Graham Gibson
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2002
Old And New World Highland Bagpiping written by John Graham Gibson and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
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.
The Highland Bagpipe
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Author : Dr Joshua Dickson
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-02-28
The Highland Bagpipe written by Dr Joshua Dickson and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-28 with Music categories.
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.
The Big Music
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Author : Kirsty Gunn
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-07-03
The Big Music written by Kirsty Gunn and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-03 with Fiction categories.
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.
Gaelic Cape Breton Step Dancing
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Author : John G. Gibson
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2017-07-04
Gaelic Cape Breton Step Dancing written by John G. Gibson and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-04 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Island Songs
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Author : Godfrey Baldacchino
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2011
Island Songs written by Godfrey Baldacchino and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Music categories.
"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.
Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 1945
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Author : John Graham Gibson
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1998
Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 1945 written by John Graham Gibson and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Bagpipe categories.
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.
Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 1945
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Author : John Graham Gibson
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1998
Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 1945 written by John Graham Gibson and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
The definitive history of traditional Scottish Gaelic bagpiping.
The Marching Band Handbook
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-03-14
The Marching Band Handbook written by and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-14 with Music categories.
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.
Scottish Studies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Scottish Studies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with National characteristics, Scottish categories.
When Piping Was Strong
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Author : Joshua Dickson
language : en
Publisher: John Donald Short Run Press
Release Date : 2006
When Piping Was Strong written by Joshua Dickson and has been published by John Donald Short Run Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Music categories.
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.