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Title The Highland bagpipe : music, history, traditon / edited by Joshua Dickson
Published Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 377 pages) : illustrations
Series Ashgate popular and folk music series
Ashgate popular and folk music series.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Illustrations; List of Music Examples; List of Tables; List of Audio Tracks; Notes on the Contributors; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Urlar; Dithis: Materiality And The Highland Pipe; Siubhal: Historical studies; Taorludh: Revivalism and transformation; Crùnnludh: Canonical studies; Bibliography; Index
Summary The Highland bagpipe, widely considered 'Scotland's national instrument', is one of the most recognized icons of traditional music in the world. It is also among the least understood. However, since the bagpipe's unprecedented surge in public visibility and scholarly attention since the 1990s, a greater interest in the emic has led the consideration of both the globalization of Highland piping and piping as rooted in local culture. The contributors of this collection discuss the bagpipe in oral and written history, anthropology, ethnography, musicology, material culture and modal aesthetics. T
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Bagpipe -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History
Bagpipe music -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Woodwinds.
Bagpipe
Bagpipe music
cornemuse -- Ecosse (Grande-Bretagne) -- études diverses.
Scotland -- Highlands
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Dickson, Joshua.
ISBN 9780754694632
0754694631
9780754666691
0754666697