Traditional Gaelic bagpiping, 1745-1945 / John G. Gibson.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Gibson, John G. (John Graham), 1941- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1998.
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Table of 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, 1746â€?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. 1750â€?1820
  • 8 Exclusivity of Repertoire: The Evidence Against9 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, 1790â€?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 ScotiaAPPENDICES
  • 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
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