Marjory Kennedy-Fraser in Hebrides - early 20th Century

from Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Songs of the Hebrides, page 99:

This mouth music for dancing is characteristic and exhilarating in the extreme... the electrifying effect of which I shall never forget... I can quite believe, as old people have assured me, that this voice music had a passionate quality exceeding that of any dance music produced by instruments.
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Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and Kenneth Macleod, Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Songs of the Hebrides. In Richard Baker and David Proctor (ed.), Music of the sea (:London, 2005), p. 99. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1386426244672 accessed: 4 December, 2024

location of experience: Hebrides

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Hebridean mouth music

Experience Information

Date/Time early 20th Century
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others

Originally submitted by th4 on Sat, 07 Dec 2013 14:24:04 +0000