Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia

by Fiona Ritchie, Darcy Orr, Doug Orr

Book Overview

From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469664186
• ISBN13: 9781469664187
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 10.9"