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Hebridean Folk Songs: Volume 2: Waulking Songs from Barra, South Uist, Eriskay, and Benbecula
John Lorne Campbell
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Description for Hebridean Folk Songs: Volume 2: Waulking Songs from Barra, South Uist, Eriskay, and Benbecula
Paperback. .
The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since their original publication (1969, 1977, 1981), contain 135 songs connected with the waulking of homespun tweed cloth in the Hebridean isles. Volume 1 is based on waulking songs collected by Donald MacCormick in South Uist in 1893. Volumes 2 and 3 are based on John Lorne Campbell's recordings of songs made between 1938 and 1965 in Barra, South Uist, Eriskay and Benbecula. The translations for all the songs in Volumes 2 and 3 and many of those in Volume 1 are by John Lorne Campbell, who ... Read more
The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since their original publication (1969, 1977, 1981), contain 135 songs connected with the waulking of homespun tweed cloth in the Hebridean isles. Volume 1 is based on waulking songs collected by Donald MacCormick in South Uist in 1893. Volumes 2 and 3 are based on John Lorne Campbell's recordings of songs made between 1938 and 1965 in Barra, South Uist, Eriskay and Benbecula. The translations for all the songs in Volumes 2 and 3 and many of those in Volume 1 are by John Lorne Campbell, who ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Donald
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Series
Hebridean Folk Songs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910900024
SKU
V9781910900024
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About John Lorne Campbell
John Lorne Campbell FRSE LLD OBE (1906-1996) was a Scottish historian, farmer, environmentalist and folklore scholar. He recorded a disappearing Gaelic heritage, and wrote and published extensively about Gaelic and Highland culture and life.
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