Old Songs of Skye

Old Songs of Skye

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Bassin Ethel
Taylor & Francis Ltd
EAN: 9781138961999
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Originally published in 1977. Frances Tolmie (1840-1926) was one of the foremost Gaelic folklore and folksong experts. This account of her life and work places her unique contribution to human song against a full personal, historical and cultural background. The book includes a selection of the songs she heard and wrote down, together with the part they played in her life and that of her circle and the larger community.

Moving in a variety of circles, Frances Tolmie experienced the warm domesticity of an enlightened Skye manse, the cultural bustle of upper middle-class Edinburgh ‘entrepreneurs’, the romantic serious-mindedness of the first Cambridge women students, the sensitive nature-loving community round Ruskin at Coniston, and spent her later sociable years back in Scotland. This book, with its historical introduction by Flora MacLeod and musical introduction by Frank Howes along with Ethel Bassin's own detailed introduction, reflects her profound study of the song and folklore of her people, and describes how she recorded a precious part of British traditional culture, catching it alive and sharing it as truly as possible.

EAN 9781138961999
ISBN 113896199X
Binding Hardback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication date November 24, 2015
Pages 260
Language English
Dimensions 234 x 156
Country United Kingdom
Readership Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Authors Bassin Ethel
Editors Bowman Derek
Series Routledge Library Editions: Folk Music