Gaelic Cape Breton Step-dancing: An Historical and Ethnographic Perspective by Gibson, John G - 2017

Montreal, Quebec: McGill Queens Univ Pr, 2017. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book is clean and tight. Book is heavy and may require additional shipping cost..

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. black cloth, gilt spine, dust jacket, 528 pages, a fine copy, 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 Ga`idhealach/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-O`ranaiche/The songster, and others, 1879-1914 -- Scottish attitudes to dance : twentieth-century letters from Gaelic Scotland -- Dancing schools and dancing-masters in… Read More

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