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Webspinner : songs, stories, and reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller / John D. Niles ; line drawings by Helen Beccard Niles ; musical transcriptions by Alan Niles in consultation with Linda Williamson ; photographs by Leonard Yarensky and others.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022.Description: xiv, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781496841582
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Webspinner
Contents:
Williamson and the travellers -- Those who went before -- A childhood in Argyll -- Making a living -- Courtship, marriage, and raising children -- Food and health, drink and conviviality -- Music and the flow of life -- The how and why of storytelling -- Scenes from a vanished world -- Webspinner: the book, the poem, and the man -- Commentary -- Appendix 1: these recordings and how they were made -- Appendix 2: transcribing "oral texts" from voice to page.
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Books Books VWML MPS 60 (22) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference only 23382

Includes lists of songs, stories, and transcriptions, and a glossary of Scots words and travellers' cant.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Williamson and the travellers -- Those who went before -- A childhood in Argyll -- Making a living -- Courtship, marriage, and raising children -- Food and health, drink and conviviality -- Music and the flow of life -- The how and why of storytelling -- Scenes from a vanished world -- Webspinner: the book, the poem, and the man -- Commentary -- Appendix 1: these recordings and how they were made -- Appendix 2: transcribing "oral texts" from voice to page.

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