Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1998 - 406 Seiten The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared. Few recordings were ever made of traditional pipe music and there are almost no Gaelic-speaking pipers of the old school left. Recording an important aspect of Gaelic culture before it disappears, John Gibson 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 New World. 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. Following the path of Scottish emigrants, Gibson traces the history of bagpiping in the New World and uncovers examples of late eighteenth-century traditional bagpiping and dance in Gaelic Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He argues that these anachronistic cultural forms provide a vital link to the vanished folk music and culture of the Scottish highlanders. This definitive study throws light on the ways pipers and piping contributed to social integration in the days of the clan system and on the decline in Scottish Gaelic culture following the abolition of clans. It also illuminates the cultural problems faced by all ethnic minorities assimilated into unitary multinational societies. John G. Gibson is a Scots-born writer-historian living in Judique, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 3 |
The Roots of Jacobitism and the Disarming Act | 14 |
Policing the Gaelic Highlands after Culloden | 36 |
Postscript on the Disarming Act | 57 |
MILITARY PIPING 174683 | 65 |
Military Piping in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | 67 |
Piping in Four Eighteenth Century Regiments | 78 |
Highland Pipers in the American Revolutionary War and in India | 95 |
The Turning Point 17901850 Innovation and Conservatism in Scotland | 167 |
Influences on Piping in NineteenthCentury Nova Scotia The Middle Class the Church and Temperance | 186 |
The Transition to Modern Piping in Scotland and Nova Scotia | 206 |
Highland Games and Competition Piping | 223 |
Traditional Pipers in Nova Scotia | 239 |
The Survival of Tradition in Nova Scotia | 251 |
The Disarming Act 1746 | 258 |
An Act to amend and enforce so much of an Act as relates to the more effectual disarming the Highlands in Scotland 1748 | 271 |
REPERTOIRE OF CIVILIAN AND MILITARY PIPERS c 17501820 | 105 |
Exclusivity of Repertoire The Evidence Against | 107 |
The Revival of Ceòl Mór | 125 |
Ceòl Beag and DanceMusic Piping | 133 |
The SmallPipe the Quickstep and the College | 155 |
TRADITION AND CHANGE IN THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW | 165 |
Letter from William Mackenzie Piper | 273 |
Other Immigrant Ceòl Mór Pipers | 275 |
Notes | 281 |
Bibliography | 353 |
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