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Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
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Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia [With CD (Audio)] Hardcover - 2014

by Fiona Ritchie; Doug Orr; Foreword by Dolly Parton


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  • Title Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia [With CD (Audio)]
  • Author Fiona Ritchie; Doug Orr; Foreword by Dolly Parton
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Har/Com
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
  • Date 2014
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781469618227 / 1469618222
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 11 x 8.5 x 1.1 in (27.94 x 21.59 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Folk music - Appalachian Region, Southern -, Folk music - Appalachian Region, Southern -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014012347
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.621

About the author

Fiona Ritchie is the founder, producer, and host of National Public Radio's The Thistle & Shamrock(R). She was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 2014. Doug Orr is president emeritus of Warren Wilson College, where he founded the Swannanoa Gathering music workshops.
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Used - Very Good. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. In Wayfaring Strangers, Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.

From ancient ballads at the heart of the tradition to instruments that express this dynamic music, Ritchie and Orr chronicle the details of an epic journey. Enriched by the insights of key contributors to the… Read More
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