Traditional Gaelic bagpiping, 1745-1945 / 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--History.

Bagpipe music--History and criticism.

Bagpipe music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the decline of piping.

Contents:

""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 Against""""9 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 Scotia""""APPENDICES""; ""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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-385) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85905-6

9786612859052

0-7735-6890-5

OCLC:

923230108