The present research examines the role of music and dance in motivating Gaelic language
learning on Cape Breton Island (Canada). The Gaelic language, once thriving in this …

It is urgent that we learn how to motivate learners of threatened heritage languages.
Motivational theories, however, are weakened when they consider heritage languages in …

This article discusses dissemination of dances in and out of Sweden, and the dancing
communities these processes create. The examples are the African-American Lindy Hop …

The aim of this thesis is an ethnographic investigation of social and musical participation,
learning and agency in a traditional music organisation in Scotland. I documented the …

This essay takes the term choreomusical as a starting place for discussion of attention to the
study of music and dance relationships within ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology …

During the twentieth century, piano accompaniment was introduced into the Scottish-based
Canadian style of fiddling on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. This dynamic and fast …

Square dancing forms a vibrant part of the traditional music scene in Cape Breton, Nova
Scotia. In addition to the weekly West Mabou square dance, monthly dances and occasional …

A documented history of cultural competitions and contests in Gaelic Cape Breton is being
deliberately forgotten. Drawing on Paul Connerton's theory of social forgetting, the author …

This thesis explores the way land has been perceived, described and experienced by
Scottish Gaels in Nova Scotia. It examines how attitudes towards land are maintained and …

Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish
dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from …