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Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia

Author: Helen Creighton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description

Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia

Author: Helen Creighton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description

Gaelic songs in Nova Scotia

Author: Helen Creighton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk music
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Songs Remembered in Exile

Author: John Lorne Campbell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
With an account of the Hebridean emigration 1790-1835.

Songs Remembered in Exile

Author: John Lorne Campbell
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
With an account of the Hebridean emigration 1790-1835.

Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia

Author: Helen Creighton
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Songs remembered in exile

Author: Colm Ó Baoill
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
In April 1932, John Lorne Campbell, while on a visit to the United States, took the chance of going to Cape Breton Island and Antigonish County in Eastern Nova Scottia, to find out how the descendants of emigrants from the Scottish Highlands and the Hebrides were faring in their new country, and to what extent the Gaelic language had been maintained among them. In September 1937, after four years on Barra, he returned with his wife, Margaret Fay Shaw, taking with them a recorder in order to collect Gaelic song and tradition and compare it with surviving tradition in the Western Isles. This book is the result of that expedition. As a preface the book includes an account of the collapse of the Hebridean kelp industry after 1820 which led to the bankruptcy of the last Chief of the MacNeils of Barra in the direct line, and which was a major contributory factor to the great flood of emigration from the Hebrides to Canada and America.

The Emigrant Experience

Author: Margaret MacDonell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487586299
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Every man has a story to tell and this was no less true of the hundreds of emigrants from the Highlands and the Hebrides who crossed the Atlantic from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century to settle in North America. This selection of Scottish Gaelic songs brings to light the revealing and often touching poems of some twenty such emigrants. Focusing on themes of emigration and exile, their subjects range from the biblical motif of liberation from tyranny (pre-destined by the Creator who provided a land of bounty across the seas), to the happier future anticipated for his daughter by a loyalist fugitive in North Carolina; from a sense of security on the part of a clergyman settled in Pictou County after the disruption in his homeland, to the disenchantment of an emigrant to Manitoba who longed to move on to North Dakota. Their tone may be lyrical, elegaic, or satirical. Songs from various parts of the new world – the Carolinas, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Ontario, and the Canadian west – are included in Gaelic with a facing English translation. A short biography of each bard prefaces the selections attributed to him or her. Detailed notes provide a guide to sources and variant texts, elucidate obscure passages, and define the social and cultural context in which the songs originated. An appendix reproduces the tunes for nine of these songs. This is a book that will inform and entertain both the specialist and the general reader.