Puirt-a-beul - the Scottish Gaelic term for mouth music - is a toe-tapping, tongue-twisting genre of song that parallels the Celtic instrumental dance tune tradition. Though puirt-a-beul are popular with both Gaelic-speaking and non-Gaelic speaking audiences, this book offers the first comprehensive study of the genre. Heather Sparling's survey of Gaelic puirt-a-beul offers a new perspective on a subject about which relatively little has been written, and that mostly from the perspective of the Scottish side of the Atlantic. Heather Sparling considers how puirt-a-beul compare to other forms...