'A guid hairst' : collecting and archiving Scottish tradition : essays in honour of Dr. Margaret A. Mackay / edited by Katherine Campbell, William Lamb, Neill Martin and Gary West.

Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • Scottish Gaelic
Published/​Created
Maastricht : Shaker, 2013.
Description
iv, 323 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Editor
    Notes
    Festschrift.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Language note
    In English, with some extracts in Scottish Gaelic and in English translation.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Gary J. West
    • Dr Margaret A. Mackay : a personal appreciation from a Hungarian colleague and friend / Imola Küllös
    • Dr Margaret A. Mackay : a biography / Katherine Campbell
    • Music and song. Two true Thomases : Scottish and American versions of Child 73 / Carl Lindahl
    • Foot-waulking
    • Luadh-Chas / Morag MacLeod
    • Geordie McIntyre : a singer who writes songs / Caroline Milligan
    • Fred Locke : pantomime author / Adam T. McNaughtan
    • From 'Maggie's reel' to 'Da Docken Kishie' : names of selected fiddle tunes by Tom Anderson / Doreen Waugh
    • Some thoughts on the song melodies in Elizabeth Ross's collection of 'Original Highland airs', 1812 / Peter Cooke
    • From eleventh-century mass chants to St Mungo's 'Emulorum ausibus' : a journey with a difference / Greta-Mary Hair
    • The Scots and Gaelic languages. Using the Dictionary of the Scots language to explore folklore and customs / Christine Robinson
    • 'Chan eil e even ann an Dwelly's!' : the continuing legacy of Edward Dwelly's Gaelic dictionary / Wilson McLeod
    • Recitation or re-creation? A reconsideration : verbal consistency in the Gaelic storytelling of Duncan MacDonald / William Lamb
    • The King, the Goddess and family origins in Galloway / William Gillies
    • Collecting tradition. Ruins in a landscape : the interpretation of material culture / Hugh Cheape
    • Wedders, stallions and stirks : some coastal toponyms from Gaelic Scotland / Ian A. Fraser
    • Reminiscences of the School of Scottish Studies of the University of Edinburgh / John MacInnes
    • Archive trails / Cathlin Macaulay and Emily Roff
    • The concept of rescue ethnography and the recording of some Scottish wedding customs / Emily Lyle
    • Gender roles in 1930s Port Glasgow as experienced by Cassie Graham / Hugh Hagan
    • Keeping to the road : keeping faith with their traditions : an account of the Scottish showmen travelling in the north-east of Scotland / Elizabeth Jordan
    • Intangible cultural heritage, or, Folklore as resource / Valdimar Hafstein
    • 'The sound of your lyre turned spiritually' : evangelical poets, scribes and letter-writers in Nova Scotia and Tiree / Donald E. Meek.
    ISBN
    • 9789042304093 ((pbk.))
    • 904230409X ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2014380076
    OCLC
    870637504
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