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Webspinner : songs, stories, and reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Niles, John D. (Author)
Other Authors: Niles, Helen Louise Beccard, 1903-1994 (Illustrator), Yarensky, Leonard (Photographer)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Subjects:
Williamson, Duncan, > 1928-2007.
Scottish Travellers (Nomadic people) > Folklore.
Storytellers > Scotland.
Folklore > Scotland.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Williamson and the travellers
  • Those who went before
  • A childhood in Argyll
  • Making a living
  • Courtship, marriage, and raising children
  • Food and health, drink and conviviality
  • Music and the flow of life
  • The how and why of storytelling
  • Scenes from a vanished world
  • Webspinner: the book, the poem, and the man
  • Commentary
  • Appendix 1: these recordings and how they were made
  • Appendix 2: transcribing "oral texts" from voice to page.