Description: Webspinner : Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller, Hardcover by Niles, John D.; Niles, Helen Beccard (CON); Niles, Alan (CON); Williamson, Linda (CON); Yarensky, Leonard (CON), ISBN 1496841573, ISBN-13 9781496841575, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Born in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan Williamson (d. 2007) eventually came to be recognized as one of the foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller is based on more than a hundred hours of tape-recorded interviews undertaken with him in the 1980s. Williamson tells of his birth and upbringing in the west of Scotland, his family background as one of Scotland's seminomadic travelling people, his varied work experiences after setting out from home at about age fifteen, and the challenges he later faced while raising a family of his own, living on the road for half the year. The recordings on which th is based were made by John D. Niles, who was then an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Niles has transcribed selections from his field tapes with scrupulous accuracy, arranging them alongside commentary, photos, and other scholarly aids, making this priceless self-portrait of a brilliant storyteller available to the public. The result is a delight to read. It is also a mine of information concerning a vanished way of life and the place of singing and storytelling in Traveller culture. In chapters that feature many colorful anecdotes and that mirror the spontaneity of oral delivery, readers learn much about how Williamson and other members of his persecuted minority had the resourcefulness to make a living on the outskirts of society, owning very little in the way of material goods but sustained by a rich oral heritage"--
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Book Title: Webspinner : Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Publication Name: Webspinner : Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Cultural Heritage, Social History, Folklore & Mythology
Item Weight: 24 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: John D. Niles
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
