Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing write by John G. Gibson. This book was released on 2017-07-04. Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Gaelic Cape Breton Step-dancing
Gaelic Cape Breton Step-dancing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gaelic Cape Breton Step-dancing write by John Graham Gibson. This book was released on 2017. Gaelic Cape Breton Step-dancing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Placing the phenomenon of Gaelic Cape Breton step-dancing into an historical perspective.
Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing
Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing write by John G. Gibson. This book was released on 2017-07-04. Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
One with the Music: Cape Breton Step Dan
One with the Music: Cape Breton Step Dan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook One with the Music: Cape Breton Step Dan write by Mats Melin. This book was released on 2015-09-30. One with the Music: Cape Breton Step Dan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Swedish-born traditional dancer and researcher Mats Melin has worked and performed extensively in the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, in their schools and communities promoting Scottish traditional dance. He has also taught and performed in Sweden, Canada, USA, Russia and New Zealand. Mats has a vast knowledge of all aspects of the Scottish traditional dance scene, but specializes in Cape Breton step dancing. One With the Music is informed, in part, by Melin's PhD research on transmission practices-how the tradition and steps of generations of dancers in Cape Breton get passed on to subsequent generations. His research gives us insight not only into the processes of transmission, but also into the complex ways dance and music in Cape Breton are deeply ingrained in the island's culture. In this book, the home, classroom and square-dance contexts-and, to some extent, concerts-are examined and analyzed following years of interviews and participation.
Dance Legacies of Scotland
Dance Legacies of Scotland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dance Legacies of Scotland write by Mats Melin. This book was released on 2020-12-30. Dance Legacies of Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices. Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover explore the historical references describing percussive dancing to illustrate how widespread the practice was, giving some glimpses of what it looked and sounded like. The authors also explain what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from Scottish dancing practices. Their research draws together fieldwork, references from historical sources in English, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic, and insights drawn from the authors’ practical knowledge of dances. They portray the complex network of dance dialects that existed in parallel across Scotland, and share how remnants of this vibrant tradition have endured in Scotland and the Scottish diaspora to the present day. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Dance and Music and its relationship to the history and culture of Scotland.
