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Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada draws on a collection of over 500 Atlantic Canadian songs relating to disasters from 1891 up until the present, and describes the characteristics that define them as intangible memorials.

Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada draws on a collection of over 500 Atlantic Canadian songs relating to disasters from 1891 up until the present, and describes the characteristics that define them as intangible memorials.

Puirt-a-beul - the Scottish Gaelic term for mouth music - is a toe-tapping, tongue-twisting genre of song that parallels the Celtic instrumental dance tune tradition. Though puirt-a-beul are popular with both Gaelic-speaking and non-Gaelic speaking audiences, this book offers the first comprehensive study of the genre. Heather Sparling's survey of Gaelic puirt-à-beul offers a new perspective on a subject about which relatively little has been ...