Hebridean Folksongs, Volume 3: Waulking Songs from Vatersay, Barra, Eriskay, South Uist, and Benbecula

By Francis Collinson and John Lorne Campbell

This volume presents forty-seven waulking songs recorded in South Uist, Barra, and the adjacent smaller islands between 1938 and 1965. Intensely evocative of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Highlands and Islands, these songs are one of the most interesting folk survivals of western Europe. Documenting a remarkable oral tradition of folkmusic, this work contains an analysis of the motifs found in the older waulking sounds, musical notes by Francis Collinson, and a chapter listing the songs in the three volumes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198152159
• ISBN13: 9780198152156
• Release Date: August 1981
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"