Elegies and Laments in the Nova Scotia Gaelic Song Tradition: Conservatism and Innovation

Gaelic-speaking emigrants brought with them a massive body of oral tradition, including a rich and varied corpus of song–poetry, and many of the emigrants were themselves highly skilled song-makers. Elegies were a particularly prominent genre that formed a crucially important aspect of the sizeable...

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Main Author: Robert Douglas Dunbar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-12-01
Series:Genealogy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/6/1/3