高地运动会

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高地运动会

高地运动会(Highland games)是每年春季和夏季在苏格兰举办的一项活动,也是庆祝苏格兰和凯尔特文化的活动之一,特别是苏格兰高地文化。许多比赛项目都是众所周知的苏格兰象征,如风笛、苏格兰裙、长木柱掷远。于每年8月在邓农举办的Cowal高地聚会(Cowal Highland Gathering)是世界规模最大的高地运动会[1],吸引约3,500名运动员参加,以及约23,000名观众[1]

参考资料[编辑]

  1. ^ Cowal Highland Gatcitationhering. [10 July 2012]. (原始内容存档于2012年8月9日). 
  • Michael Brander, Essential Guide to the Highland Games (1992) ISBN 0-86241-302-8
  • Emily Ann Donaldson, The Scottish Highland Games in America (Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, LA, 1986). ISBN 0-88289-474-9.
  • Joan F. Flett and Thomas M. Flett, Traditional Dancing in Scotland (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1964, 1985), ISBN 0-7102-0731-X
  • John G. Gibson, Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945 (McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1998). ISBN 0-7735-1541-0. See esp. chapter 15, "Highland Games and Competition Piping"
  • Ian R. Mitchell, "Rheumatism, Romanticism and Revolution: Victoria, Balmorality and 1848" in History Scotland (Vol. 5, #5, September/October 2005)
  • John Prebble, The King's Jaunt (Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd,1988., 2000), ISBN 1-84158-068-6
  • Hugh Trevor-Roper, "The Invention of Tradition: The Highland Tradition of Scotland." in The Invention of Tradition ed. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-521-24645-8.
  • David Webster, Scottish Highland Games (Edinburgh, Scotland 1973)

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