Brigh an Òrain – A Story in Every Song Maclellan Shaw Macleod Hardback

Brigh an rain - a Story in Every SongAuthor(s): Lauchie MacLellan, John Shaw, Alistair MacLeod\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780773520639, 978-0773520639\nSynopsis\nFew published collections of Gaelic song place the songs or their singers and communities in context. Brgh an rain - A Story in Every Song corrects this, showing how the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael fits within biographical, social, and historical contexts. It is the first major study of its kind to be undertaken for a Scottish Gaelic singer. The forty-eight songs and nine folktales in the collection are transcribed from field recordings and presented as the singer performed them, with an English translation provided. All the songs are accompanied by musical transcriptions. The book also includes a brief autobiography in Lauchie MacLellan's entertaining narrative style. John Shaw has added extensive notes and.