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Oral Literature and Performance Culture

Oral Literature and Performance Culture

SKU : SLS-BK1209
45,00£ Prix original
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Title: Oral Literature and Performance Culture
Author: Edited by John Beech, Owen Hand, Fiona MacDonald, Mark A. Mulhern and Jeremy Weston
Publisher: John MacDonald, Edinburgh
Date: 2007

 

Hardback - 1st Edition with original dust cover. 616pp. Illustrated.

  • Additional Product Information

    This is Volume 10 of a project "Scottish Life and Society - A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology," a major project of the European Ethnological Research Centre with a total of 14 volumes. Its overall aim is to examine the interlocking strands of history , language and traditional culture within an international context and their contribution to the making of a national identity.

    This volume examines the stories, songs, verse, ballads, drama, music and dances of Scotland as experienced in a variety of settings such as the intimate setting of the home or the communal setting of the theatre or cinema.

    From Cú Chulainn and Finn mac Cool to broadsides and bothy ballads, to Galoshins and the Foursome Reel, the oral and performance culture of the Scots is explained and discussed.

  • Condition Notes

    This is a new unread copy. Normal RRP is £45 so the book is discounted at 30%.

     

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