From the Alleghenies to the Hebrides: An Autobiography
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (748 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1841587702 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 150 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Go hiontach! Review will follow shortly. This is a wonderful book.. Inspiring story of grit and joy J. Marilla I loved this story of a passionate and persistent woman, who was not derailed by life's challenges.She followed her passion for music all the way to the Hebrides, where she felt so in tune with the music and the people that she moved there in her twenties -- and spent the rest of her life living, appreciating and documenting Gaelic culture.Gives you a green light for living.. "Canna: Going Back In Time" according to Brian Groves. This is a wonderful book, from a wonderful woman. As my great aunt, our family enjoyed visiting her. Her book is a testament to her life, a I am amazed that she was able to live for so long. Even a few years before she died, she was blind, but was still able to play the piano beautifully. This book will amaze and surprise you. Enjoy reading it!
After studying music in New York and Paris, she returned to live for six years with two sisters in South Uist. It is written with a sharpness of observation, directness of humor and zest for life which make it a marvelous record of the twentieth century.. It was there that her love for Scotland was born. Her autobiography is the remarkable testament of a remarkable woman as well as a powerful plea in defense of a Gaelic culture and world under threat. Life on the island had changed little from previous centuries, and material comforts were few. Leaving home and school in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia aged 16, she crossed to Scotland to spend a year at school near Glasgow. Margaret Fay Shaw's life spans a century of change. But the island was rich in music and tradition, and Margaret Fay Shaw's collection of Gaelic lore and song are amongst the most important made this century, whilst her photography evocatively captures the aura of a vanished world
She was one of the most notable collectors of authentic Scottish Gaelic song and traditions in the 20th century. Margaret Fay Shaw died on Canna in 2004 at the age of 101. . Her autobiography has been almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1994. She met the folklorist John Lorne Campbell on South Uist in 1934; they married a year late
It is direct, straightforward, often funny, sometimes moving, never sentimental, always serving to evoke what was so valuable about ways of living, which in the last half century, have been set irretrievably aside.' - Times Literary Supplement . 'This autobiography is a miniature masterpiece