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Margaret Shaw
American folklorist and musicologist (1903-2004) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 101
Margaret Fay Shaw was a pioneering Scottish-American ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, and scholar of Celtic studies.
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She is best known for her meticulous work as a folk song and folklore collector among Scottish Gaelic-speakers in the Hebrides, Canadian Gaelic-speaking communities in Nova Scotia, and among Connaught Irish speakers in the Aran Islands. Along with her husband, literary scholar John Lorne Campbell, Shaw helped lay the foundation for both the modern Scottish Gaelic Renaissance and heritage language revival using Scottish Gaelic-medium education.
