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Old and New World Highland Bagpiping (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History Series) (Hardcover)

by John Gibson (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 456 pages
  • Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press (2 Nov 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0773522913
  • ISBN-13: 978-0773522916
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.1 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"Gibson presents an overall view of piping patronage among the Scottish clans which has only been dealt with piecemeal in the past. Such a general survey has not been done before in such a comprehensive manner." Peter Cooke, School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh "Gibson's is a voice which deserves to be heard on the history of the highland bagpipe. His passion for the subject shines through on every page and there can be no denying his knowledge of the sources for piping history, in Gaelic as well as in English and other languages. He has produced another book of great learning." David Waterhouse, University of Toronto, and long-time piping student of late P/M John Wilson (Edinburgh), and was formerly in the Pipes and Drums of the 48th Highlanders of Canada.


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Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton. The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fitted 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 Gaihealtachlan 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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Family histories of Nova Scotia pipers, 3 Sep 2005
Well I enjoyed his last book which was well researched and gave me access to information I would not have had otherwise had - particularly on the 1745 Disarming Act. I had hoped more of the same, which I was in part what I found. This book is the result of 30 years haphazard collection - clearly his aims have varied over the years as you would expect. What emerges is a very gaelic-backwater style of rambling family histories with snippets of intriguing cultural insight. When I stopped looking for information and settled back for a comfortable read I found it a warm, comfortable and enjoyable read describing people who have gone before.

Read this book if you want a flavour of Nova scotian gaelic culture, read his other book on post 1745 piping for a history of highland/war pipes.

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