Old and new world highland bagpiping / John G. Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, John G. (John Graham), 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bagpipe--Scotland--Highlands--History.

Bagpipe.

Bagpipe--Nova Scotia--Cape Breton Island--History.

Bagpipe music--History and criticism.

Bagpipe music.

History.

Nova Scotia--Cape Breton Island.

Scotland--Highlands.

Physical Description:

xii, 424 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Old and New World Highland Bagpiping will stir controversy and debate in the piping world while providing a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in both Highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton. The result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival sources, Old and New World Highland Bagpiping shows that traditional community piping in the old and new world Gaidhealtachdan was, and for a long time remained, the same. John Gibson exposes the distortions introduced by the tendency to interpret the written record from the perspective of modern, post-eighteenth-century bagpiping.

Contents:

Part 1 Piping in the Jacobite Highlands From 1745

1 The MacGregors and Piping in Glengarry 19

2 Keppoch, Clanranald, and Cameron Piping 41

3 Piping in MacLean Country 67

4 Fraser, Farquharson, MacIntosh, Grant, Chisholm, and Barra MacNeil Pipers 86

5 Raasay MacLeods, Glencoe MacDonalds, Appin Stewarts, and Cluny MacPhersons 108

Part 2 "Hereditary" or Chiefs' Pipers in Hanoverian Scotland

6 Piping in MacCrimmon and MacDonald Skye and in Strathspey (Grants) 127

7 Piping in Glenorchy/Breadalbane, in Islay, and in MacDougall and MacIntyre Territory 149

8 Sutherland and Gairloch, Seaforth, and Gordon Piping 169

Part 3 New World Piping in Cape Breton

9 The East Bay Area of Cape Breton and the MacLean Pipers in Washabuck 193

10 Piping and Tradition in the Margarees, Inverness County 218

11 Piping in the Glendale Area, River Denys Mountain, Melford, Big Marsh, Orangedale, and Valley Mills 237

12 Pipers, Piping, and Cultural Glimpses of West Lake Ainslie 253

13 Reverend Archibald Campbell's Observations of Piping in Judique 267

14 Some Pipers in Northern Cape Breton 280.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-416) and index.

ISBN:

0773522913

OCLC:

48532405