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1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Series |
SOAS Studies in Music Ser |
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SOAS Studies in Music Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Celts: A Complex Construct With Multiple Meanings -- Restoring the "Golden Age" -- A First Encounter With the Cornish Revival Communities -- From a Deconstructivist to a Postmodern Reading -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1 Cornish Distinctiveness: History and Language -- The Celtic Roots of Kernow -- Local Peculiarities in Protestant and Methodist Cornwall -- Kernewek: The Marker of Cornish Celticity |
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Cornwall: A (Celtic) Nation? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Celtic Traces in Cornish Music and Dancing -- Written Sources in Old Cornish -- Written Sources in Middle Cornish -- Visual Evidence of Medieval Music and Dance in Cornwall -- Song Texts in Late Cornish -- Historical Celtic Music and Dance Traditions? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Anglo-Cornish Traditions -- Morris Dances, Guising Traditions, Carols and Wassails -- The Padstow Maysong and the Dance of the "Obby Oss" -- Helston Flora Day and the Furry Dance -- The Anglo-Cornish Dialect Songs -- Cornish Community Music and Dances |
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Local Forms of Pan-British Traditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 The Role Models: Cornwall and Circumambient Revival Movements -- The Cornish Language Revival and the First British Folk Revival -- Unified Cornish: A "Medieval" Language for New "Traditional" Songs -- Gather Up the Fragments So That Nothing Be Lost -- Analogies Between the Cornish and Other Celtic Cultural Revivals -- Cornwall and the Second British Folk Revival -- Inglis Gundry and Peter Kennedy -- The Folkies -- Brenda Wootton and Richard Gendall: The First Cornish-Language Songs -- The Celtic Music Revivals |
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The Irish and Scottish Music Revivals From 1950-1970 -- Alan Stivell, the Founding Father of "Celtic Music" -- From "Country Bumpkins" to "Celtic Heroes" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 The Cornish Music and Dance Revival: Early Research and Publications -- "Burning Souls": Bucca, Cam Kernewek and Ros Keltek -- The Corpus of "Traditional Cornish Dances" -- Criticism Towards the Reconstructions -- The Distinctiveness of Cornish Dances -- Hengan: The Celto-Cornish Book of "Traditional Tunes" -- Estren (The American Stranger): Conscious Changes |
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An Awhesyth (The Lark): Transcription Errors Or Creative Design? -- Helygen (Willow Tree): Borrowed Plumes -- "Celtification": The Making of Cornish Traditional Music and Dance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Developing and Expanding Cornish Music -- The Projects Anao Atao and Pyba -- The New Resources Racca and Ertach -- Professionalisation and Further Exploration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 The Nos Lowen Movement -- Celebrating Cornwall's Youth -- The Breton Inspiration -- Short Motives, Long Chains -- Creating a New Style -- Reactions to Nos Lowen -- "Celtic" and "Authentic" -- Notes |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Subject |
Celtic music -- Social aspects -- England -- Cornwall (County)
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England -- Cornwall (County)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000452808 |
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1000452808 |
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