The Highland bagpipe: music, history, traditon
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England Ashgate ©2009
Series:Ashgate popular and folk music series
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 377 pages)
ISBN:9780754694632
0754694631

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