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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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-12-01
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Series: | Genealogy |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/6/1/3 |