Webspinner : songs, stories, and reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller /
John D. Niles ; line drawings by Helen Beccard Niles ; musical transcriptions by Alan Niles in consultation with Linda Williamson ; photographs by Leonard Yarensky and others.
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
- xiv, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Includes lists of songs, stories, and transcriptions, and a glossary of Scots words and travellers' cant.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Williamson and the travellers -- Those who went before -- A childhood in Argyll -- Making a living -- Courtship, marriage, and raising children -- Food and health, drink and conviviality -- Music and the flow of life -- The how and why of storytelling -- Scenes from a vanished world -- Webspinner: the book, the poem, and the man -- Commentary -- Appendix 1: these recordings and how they were made -- Appendix 2: transcribing "oral texts" from voice to page.