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Scottish
Bagpipes
 The
Highland Bagpipe and Its Music Roderick Cannon's classic
work, a definitive and critically acclaimed history of the origins
and music of Scotland's most famous instrument. The eminently
readable text will be of interest not only to pipers but to
all those music lovers world wide who are intrigued to know
more about the character and extraordinary history of the legendary
pipes. The author covers both Ccol Mor and Ccol Beag, Piobaireachd,
dance music, martial music, music for competitions and music
for pleasure, music for pipe bands as well as a commentary on
the state of piping today. Updated from its last paperback edition,
this book is the only comprehensive history of piping in print
and has never been surpassed. Scottish
Bagpipes.
 Old
and New World Highland Bagpiping Old and New World Highland
Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical
account of pipers and piping in highland Scotland and Gaelic
Cape Breton. The work is the result of over thirty years of
oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom
piping fit unself-consciously into community life, as well as
an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources.
Reflecting the invaluable memories of now-deceased new world
Gaelic lore-bearers, John Gibson shows that traditional community
piping in both the old and new world Gaihealtachlan was, and
for a long time remained, the same, exposing the distortions
introduced by the tendency to interpret the written record from
the perspective of modern, post-eighteenth-century bagpiping.
Following up the argument in his previous book, Traditional
Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945, Gibson traces the shift from tradition
to modernism in the old world through detailed genealogies,
focusing on how the social function of the Scottish piper changed
and step-dance piping progressively disappeared. Old and New
World Highland Bagpiping will stir controversy and debate in
the piping world while providing reminders of the value of oral
history and the importance of describing cultural phenomena
with great care and detail.
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