TY - BOOK AU - Niles,John D. AU - Niles,Helen Louise Beccard AU - Niles,Alan AU - Williamson,Linda AU - Yarensky,Leonard TI - Webspinner: songs, stories, and reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller SN - 9781496841582 PY - 2022/// CY - Jackson PB - University Press of Mississippi KW - Williamson, Duncan KW - Gypsies, Roma, Travellers KW - Storytellers KW - Folklore KW - Scotland N1 - 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 ER -