The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society 1750-1950
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society 1750-1950
By (Author) William Donaldson
John Donald Publishers Ltd
John Donald Short Run Press
3rd July 2008
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
788.49
Physical Properties
Paperback
528
Width 155mm, Height 230mm, Spine 40mm
833g
Description
The Highland bagpipe has long been a central strand of Scottish identity, but what happened to the Highland bagpipe in the two centuries following Culloden How was its music transmitted and received This study presents contemporary evidence and uses a range of methods to recreate the changing world of the pipers as they influenced and were influenced by the transformation in Scottish society. Combining newspaper and manuscript evidence from the pipers themselves with a wide range of historical sources, the author harnesses the insights of the practical player to those of the historian and provides a fresh account of the players and their musical traditions.
Author Bio
William Donaldson is a Scottish social historian and piper. Two of his earlier books, The Jacobite Song and Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland, received a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Thomas Blackwell Memorial Prize.
