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Gibson, John G. (John Graham), 1941-
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Step dancing -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- History.
Step dancing -- Scotland -- History.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Social life and customs.
Scotland -- Social life and customs.
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Gibson, John G. (John Graham), 1941-
Step dancing -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- History.
Step dancing -- Scotland -- History.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Social life and customs.
Scotland -- Social life and customs.
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Gaelic
Cape
Breton
step-dancing : an historical and ethnographic perspective / John G. Gibson.
by
Gibson, John G. (John Graham), 1941-
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Call #:
793.3197169 G449g
Subjects
Step
dancing
--
Nova
Scotia
--
Cape
Breton
Island
--
History
.
Step
dancing
--
Scotland
--
History
.
Cape
Breton
Island
(N.S.)
--
Social life and customs.
Scotland
--
Social life and customs.
Series
McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic
history
. Series two ; 43.
ISBN:
9780773550599 (hc.)
Description:
xxxii, 464 p., [5] p. of plates : ill, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The religious background in Scotland, 1746-1846
--
Step-dancing in Catholic Gaelic
Cape
Breton
and northeastern
Nova
Scotia
from 1790
--
The Mary "Tulloch" Macdonald phenomenon examined
--
Dancing
in the Catholic Margarees, Glendale, and Boisdale
--
The Gluasad Gàidhealach/Gaelic movement in
Cape
Breton
, 1919-46
--
Step-dancing in Presbyterian
Cape
Breton
from 1790
--
The evidence for step-dancing in Scotland, 1775-1848
--
Dancing
in moderate Presbyterian Gaelic parishes in Scotland
--
Dancing
in inland Gaelic Strathspey and northwestern Perthshire
--
Changes in
dancing
in Gaelic Scotland : the
dancing
record from Gaelic songs, 1850-85
--
The four doctors, an t-Òranaiche/The songster, and others, 1879-1914
--
Scottish attitudes to dance : twentieth-century letters from Gaelic Scotland
--
Dancing
schools and dancing-masters in Gaelic Scotland, 1775-1845
--
Last words : a Scottish country
dancing
enigma.
Summary:
"The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in
Nova
Scotia
is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845. The Scotch Gael has been reported as loving dance, but step-dancing in Scotland had all but disappeared by 1945. One must look to Gaelic
Nova
Scotia
,
Cape
Breton
, and Antigonish County, to find this tradition. The first study of its kind gives this art form and the people and culture associated with it the prominence they have long deserved. Gaelic Scotland's cultural record is by and large pre-literate, and references to dance have had to be sought in Gaelic songs, many of which were transcribed on paper by those who knew their culture might be lost with the decline of their language. The improved Scottish culture depended proudly on the teaching of
dancing
and the literate learning and transmission of music in accompaniment. Relying on fieldwork in
Nova
Scotia
, and on mentions of dance in Gaelic song and verse in Scotland and
Nova
Scotia
, John Gibson traces the historical roots of step-dancing, particularly the older forms of
dancing
originating in the Gaelic-speaking Scottish Highlands. He also places the current tradition as a development and part of the much larger British and European percussive dance tradition. With insight collected through written sources, tales, songs, manuscripts, book references, interviews, and conversations, Gaelic
Cape
Breton
Step-Dancing brings an important aspect of Gaelic
history
to the forefront of cultural debate. John G. Gibson is the author of Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping."--Provided by publisher.
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