Old and New World Highland Bagpiping is a stimulating and controversial book which also provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in both Highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton.The result of over thirty years' oral fieldwork among the last of the Gaels in Cape Breton, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival sources, this book shows that traditional community bagpiping in the Old and New World Gų idhealtachdan was, and for a long time remained, the same. John Gibson explores the distortions introduced by the tendency to interpret the written record from the perspective of modern, post-eighteenth-century bagpiping.
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About the Author:
John S. Gibson is a Scots-born writer-historian living in Judique, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Review:
'An excellent reference book,'
- International Review of Scottish Studies
'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... a book of great learning' --David Waterhouse, University of Toronto
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- PublisherBirlinn
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1841583340
- ISBN 13 9781841583341
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages448