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Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945
John G. Gibson
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Description for Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945
Paperback. The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared. This work chronicles the decline of traditional Highland Gaelic bagpiping - and Gaelic culture as a whole - and provides examples of traditional bagpipe music that have survived in the world. Num Pages: 406 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3J; AVGH; HBJD1; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
Pulling together what is known of eighteenth-century West Highland piping and pipers and relating this to the effects of changing social conditions on traditional Scottish Gaelic piping since the suppression of the last Jacobite rebellion, Gibson presents a new interpretation of the decline of Gaelic piping and a new view of Gaelic society prior to the Highland diaspora. Refuting widely accepted opinions that after Culloden pipes and pipers were effectively banned in Scotland by the Disarming Act (1746), Gibson reveals that traditional dance bagpiping continued at least to the mid-nineteenth century. He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands ... Read more
Pulling together what is known of eighteenth-century West Highland piping and pipers and relating this to the effects of changing social conditions on traditional Scottish Gaelic piping since the suppression of the last Jacobite rebellion, Gibson presents a new interpretation of the decline of Gaelic piping and a new view of Gaelic society prior to the Highland diaspora. Refuting widely accepted opinions that after Culloden pipes and pipers were effectively banned in Scotland by the Disarming Act (1746), Gibson reveals that traditional dance bagpiping continued at least to the mid-nineteenth century. He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
Number of Pages
406
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773521346
SKU
V9780773521346
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About John G. Gibson
John G. Gibson is the author of Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745–1945 and Old and New World Highland Bagpiping. He lives in Judique, Nova Scotia.
Reviews for Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945
"A must-read for all piping aficionados and those with a taste for the sacred cow." The Voice "This is a book that every piping enthusiast should read." Celtic Heritage "Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping's contribution to the region's cultural history is priceless." Atlantic Books Today "By studying and reinterpreting the historical relationship between traditional Scottish and New World preliterate piping Traditional Gaelic ... Read more