Brigh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song: Volume 33

by John Shaw, Alistair MacLeod, Lauchie Maclellan

Few published collections of Gaelic song place the songs or their singers and communities in context. Br gh an rain - A Story in Every Song corrects this, showing how the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael fits within biographical, social, and historical contexts. It is the first major study of its kind to be undertaken for a Scottish Gaelic singer. The forty-eight songs and nine folktales in the collection are transcribed from field...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773520635
• ISBN13: 9780773520639
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.4" x 9.7"