1st Edition

Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall Cornu-Copia

By Lea Hagmann Copyright 2022
238 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, this book investigates the revivalists’ claims about Cornwall’s cultural distinctiveness and Celtic heritage, both which are presently used as arguments to promote the English county’s political status as an independent Celtic nation. The author describes two different revival movements that aim at reviving Cornwall’s culture but seem to have... Read more
 Introduction 
1 Cornish Distinctiveness: History and Language
2 Celtic Traces in Cornish Music and Dancing 
3 Anglo-Cornish Traditions
4 The Role Models: Cornwall and Circumambient Revival Movements 
5 The Cornish Music and Dance Revival: Early Research and Publications  
6 Developing and Expanding Cornish Music
7 The Nos Lowen Movement
8 Dissemination, Institutionalisation and the Second Generation
9 Conclusion

Biography

Lea Hagmann is a lecturer and postdoc researcher in Cultural Anthropology of Music at the University of Bern, where she is also the Director of Studies in World Arts and Music.

"Hagmann’s volume therefore cuts both ways: it brings overdue recognition to the existence and significance of Celtic music and dance in Cornwall, while levelling substantial challenges at the corpus. Demonstrating that Cornwall’s diminutive size is no indicator of a lack of cultural complexity, she explores many issues that have wider resonances, not least in relation to ongoing Cornish agendas for greater political and institutional recognition. - Kate Neale, Folk Music Journal