New Book on Gaelic Oral Tradition

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

>From Higlands-L, this is compilatons of John 
MacInnes articles on Scottish Gaelic folk arts.


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From: Michael Newton <gaelicmichael at HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: New book
To: HIGHLANDS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Birlinn has just published Dùthchas nan Gàidheal: 
Selected Essays of John MacInnes. The volume is 
nearly 600 pages long and contains biographical 
material as well as updated and revised versions 
of many of his key articles.  The TOC is as 
follows:

   Acknowledgements  vii
   Foreword (by Angus Peter Campbell)  ix
   Introduction  xxi
   Biographical Sketch  xxiii
   Published Works of John MacInnes  xxiv
   Archival Recordings  xxxv

   Essays on History, and Local and Family Tradition:
     Gaelic Poetry and Historical Tradition  3
     The Gaelic Perception of the Lowlands  34
     Clan Sagas and Historical Legends  48
     Gleanings from Raasay Tradition  64
     Family Tradition In The Isle of Skye: Clann Aonghuis - The MacInneses  81
     The Scottish Gaelic Language  92
     Cainnt is Cànan  120
     Dròbhaireachd  131
     Droving in the Highlands  147

   Essays on Literature, Song and Dance:
     The Gaelic Literary Tradition  163
     Sgeul air Cù Chulainn  182
     Twentieth-Century Recordings of Scottish Gaelic Heroic Ballads  184
     The Choral Tradition in Scottish Gaelic Songs 211
     The Oral Tradition in Scottish Gaelic Poetry 230
     Gaelic Song and the Dance  248
     The Panegyric Code in Gaelic Poetry and its Historical Background  265
     Sùil Air Bardachd na Gàidhlig  320
     Baird is Bleidirean  340
     Gaelic Poetry in the Nineteenth Century  357
     A Radically Traditional Voice: Sorley MacLean 
and the Evangelical Background  380
     Language, Metre and Diction in the Poetry of Sorley MacLean  392
     Sorley Maclean's 'Hallaig': a note  418

   Essays on Belief Systems and World View:
     Religion in Gaelic Society  425
     The Seer in Gaelic Tradition  443
     Looking at Legends of the Supernatural  459
     New Introduction to Carmina Gadelica  477
     Am Fàsach ann an Dùthchas nan Gàidheal  492

   Gaelic Glossary
   Bibliography
   Notes
   General Index
   Index of Titles and First Lines

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Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D.
Instructional Designer/Instructor in Linguistics
Penn State University
ejp10 at psu.edu

http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/
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