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Willie Gavin, Crofter Man

Willie Gavin, Crofter Man


ISBN: 9781841587097
Category: Music, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: David Kerr Cameron
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

A portrait of crofting life in the bare and sometimes bitter landscape of Scotland’s North-east lowlands. The second part of Cameron’s trilogy of rural life.

With an introduction by Jack Webster.

    
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The Ballad and the Plough

The Ballad and the Plough


ISBN: 9781841587080
Category: Music, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: David Kerr Cameron
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

A rich and captivating insight into life in a Scottish farm town in the mid nineteenth century. Together with Willie Gavin, Crofter Man and The Cornkister Days, this volume forms a remarkable trilogy on life in rural Scotland.

With an introduction by Jack Webster.


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The Cornkister Days

The Cornkister Days


ISBN: 9781841587103
Category: Music, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies
Author: David Kerr Cameron
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:
David Kerr Cameron describes the rural upheavals and developments of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries towards the landscape we recognise today. The third in Cameron's trilogy of rural life.

With an introduction by Jack Webster.
    
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The Highland Bagpipe and its Music

The Highland Bagpipe and its Music


ISBN: 9781841586663
Category: Scottish Culture, Music
Author: Roderick Cannon
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
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Synopsis:

The only comprehensive book of piping in print, Roderick Cannon provides a great wealth of information for those lovers of the pipes.


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Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist

Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist


ISBN: 9781841580081
Category: Music, Folklore, Cultural Studies
Author: Margaret Fay Shaw
Publication Date: January 1999
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: not in stock  

Synopsis:
This marvellous compendium of photographs, stories, traditions and songs has been an established classic since its first publication in 1955.
    
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MacPherson's Rant

MacPherson's Rant


ISBN: 9781841582900
Category: Music, Cultural Studies
Author: Stuart McHardy
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

The fiddle has long played an important part in Scottish musical tradition: here are lively stories that reflect that importance.


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The Silver Chanter

The Silver Chanter


ISBN: 9781841582917
Category: Music, Cultural Studies
Author: Stuart McHardy
Publication Date: May 2004
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

Stuart McHardy introduces Scotland’s national musical instrument, its history, development and repertoire­ and examines the part that the piper himself has played in Highland and Lowland society over the centuries.

    
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Old and New World Highland Bagpiping

Old and New World Highland Bagpiping


ISBN: 9781841583341
Category: Music, Cultural Studies
Author: John G. Gibson
Publication Date: April 2005
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock  
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Synopsis:
Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers. 
        
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