The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society, 1750-1950 - 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 The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society, 1750-1950 write by William Donaldson. This book was released on 2000. The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society, 1750-1950 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happened to the Highland bagpipe in the two centuries following Cullden? This study presents much new contemporary evidence and uses a range of methods to recreate the changing world of the pipers as they influenced and were influenced by the transformations in Scottish society.
The Highland Bagpipe
The Highland Bagpipe - 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 The Highland Bagpipe write by Dr Joshua Dickson. This book was released on 2013-02-28. The Highland Bagpipe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Highland bagpipe, widely considered 'Scotland's national instrument', is one of the most recognized icons of traditional music in the world. It is also among the least understood. But Scottish bagpipe music and tradition - particularly, but not exclusively, the Highland bagpipe - has enjoyed an unprecedented surge in public visibility and scholarly attention since the 1990s. A greater interest in the emic led to a diverse picture of the meaning and musical iconicism of the bagpipe in communities in Scotland and throughout the Scottish diaspora. This interest has led to the consideration of both the globalization of Highland piping and piping as rooted in local culture. It has given rise to a reappraisal of sources which have hitherto formed the backbone of long-standing historical and performative assumptions. And revivalist research which reassesses Highland piping's cultural position relative to other Scottish piping traditions, such as that of the Lowlands and Borders, today effectively challenges the notion of the Highland bagpipe as Scotland's 'national' instrument. The Highland Bagpipe provides an unprecedented insight into the current state of Scottish piping studies. The contributors – from Scotland, England, Canada and the United States – discuss the bagpipe in oral and written history, anthropology, ethnography, musicology, material culture and modal aesthetics. The book will appeal to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, as well as those interested in international bagpipe studies and traditions.
Old and New World Highland Bagpiping
Old and New World Highland Bagpiping - 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 Old and New World Highland Bagpiping write by John G. Gibson. This book was released on 2002-05-22. Old and New World Highland Bagpiping available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fit unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources. Reflecting the invaluable memories of now-deceased new world Gaelic lore-bearers, John Gibson shows that traditional community piping in both the old and new world Gàihealtachlan was, and for a long time remained, the same, exposing the distortions introduced by the tendency to interpret the written record from the perspective of modern, post-eighteenth-century bagpiping. Following up the argument in his previous book, Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945, Gibson traces the shift from tradition to modernism in the old world through detailed genealogies, focusing on how the social function of the Scottish piper changed and step-dance piping progressively disappeared. Old and New World Highland Bagpiping will stir controversy and debate in the piping world while providing reminders of the value of oral history and the importance of describing cultural phenomena with great care and detail.
The Scots Abroad
The Scots Abroad - 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 The Scots Abroad write by R. A. Cage. This book was released on 2021-10-12. The Scots Abroad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1985, this book examines the extent of Scottish migration and Scottish involvement in the process of development. Although there are many books written on the Scots abroad, this volume is unique in that it has a unifying theme: each contributor has concentrated on the role played by the Scots in the economic development of their relevant country or area which include England, Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, India, Latin America and Japan. This will be of interest to both social and economic historians.
When Scotland Was Jewish
When Scotland Was Jewish - 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 When Scotland Was Jewish write by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman. This book was released on 2015-05-07. When Scotland Was Jewish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.
