Tiber cainnt a' phuirt, the tune's speech
Graduate Student, Celtic and Scottish Studies
Tagraiche PhD an Eitneòlas / PhD Candidate in Ethnology
College of Humanities and Social Science
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Dr John Shaw
Dr Gary West Dr Magnus Course |
About
Tiber’s PhD dissertation examines aesthetic attitudes concerning music and verbal-art belonging to Scottish Gaelic-speakers in both indigenous (The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland) and diasporic (Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada) contexts. This is revealed primarily through the use of oral narratives in the language from continued personal fieldwork discussing the role of local performance culture as intergenerationally experienced in the everyday life of these communities dotting the North Atlantic Arc. Tiber’s research focuses on the symbolic nature of language and the function of conceptual metaphor and other tropes as expressed in Scottish Gaelic discourse about these communal traditions, revealing how such abstract concepts as ornamenting a tune appropriately ‘through putting the right taste/flavour (blas) on it’ or performing music for dance with such rhythmic expertise that ‘it could be seen flowing off the piper’s chanter,’ are sensed and made sense of through the use of language associated with concrete concepts and physical embodied experience.
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