Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, it 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.
1) First published book on the revival of Cornish music and dance and the first extended history of music and dance in Cornwall.
2) Based on a combination of qualitative fieldwork and expert interviews, and a meticulous study of the historical and revival material
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
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