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Book SynopsisThe bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared. This work chronicles the decline of traditional Highland Gaelic bagpiping - and Gaelic culture as a whole - and provides examples of traditional bagpipe music that have survived in the world.
Trade Review"A must-read for all piping aficionados and those with a taste for the sacred cow." The Voice "This is a book that every piping enthusiast should read." Celtic Heritage "Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping's contribution to the region's cultural history is priceless." Atlantic Books Today "By studying and reinterpreting the historical relationship between traditional Scottish and New World preliterate piping Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945 vastly enriches our knowledge of both of them. A monumental contribution to Scottish and Canadian cultural studies." Robin Lorimer, musicologist
Table of ContentsCONTENTS: PART ONE PIPING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: AN UNBROKEN TRADITION 1. Introduction 2. The Roots of Jaobitism 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 REPETOIRE OF CIVILIAN AND MILITARY PIPERS, c. 1750-1820 8. Exclusivity of Repetoire: The Evidence Against 9. The Revival of Cel Mr 10. Cel 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 Conservation 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 more effectual disarming of the Highlands in Scotland, 1748 3. Letter from William Mackenzie, Piper 4. Other Immigrant Cel Mr Pipers Notes Bibliography Index
