Old and New World Highland Bagpiping
"An excellent work, well researched, splendidly footnoted, a book anyone with an interest in the subject will find a 'must have.'" The Canadian Historical Review "John Gibson has provided in this new book an incredible wealth of information." Mario Champagne, Department of Music, Stanford University "Throughout Old and New World Highland Bagpiping, John Gibson emphasises and decodes the traditional Gaelic social and cultural relationships between many of the clans and families in Scotland and in Cape Breton. Gibson manages to do an exceptional job of
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. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 456
- ISBN
- 9780773522916
- Utgivelsesår
- 2002
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"An excellent work, well researched, splendidly footnoted, a book anyone with an interest in the subject will find a 'must have.'" The Canadian Historical Review "John Gibson has provided in this new book an incredible wealth of information." Mario Champagne, Department of Music, Stanford University "Throughout Old and New World Highland Bagpiping, John Gibson emphasises and decodes the traditional Gaelic social and cultural relationships between many of the clans and families in Scotland and in Cape Breton. Gibson manages to do an exceptional job of