Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-446) and index (pages 447-464).
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 Gaidhealach/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-Oranaiche/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:
Placing the phenomenon of Gaelic Cape Breton step-dancing into an historical perspective.
Series:
McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 43
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