Author: Gerry Smyth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712353700
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore. Its pages decorated with hand-drawn or wood-cut illustrations from celebrated artist Jonny Hannah, Sailor Song addresses the current modern revival of sea shanties, and seeks to celebrate and to explore the historical, musical and social history of the traditional sea song through 40 beautiful, mournful, haunting and uplifting shanties. Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each one alongside musical notation. The lyrics are elaborated with explanations of terminology, context including historical facts and accounts of life at sea, and the characters, both fictional and non-fictional, that appear in the songs from the great age of sail to the last days of square-rig. Where appropriate, a direct digital link is made to a shanty recording in the British Library Sound Archive.
Author: Laura Alexandrine Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Author: Roland Palmer Gray
Publisher: Cambridge Harvard University Press 1924.
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Author: William Roy Mackenzie
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Author: Folk-Song Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Contains music.
Author: Cecil James Sharp
Publisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company
ISBN:
Category : Children's songs
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: Cecil James Sharp
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486231925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Lyrics and piano music for traditional ballads and songs collected from singers throughout Britain are accompanied by notes on their probable origins, related versions, and historical allusions
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Folk songs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Author: Jessica M. Floyd
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496853148
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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During his correspondence with erotic folklore collector Gershon Legman, famed chantey singer and collector Stan Hugill (1906–1992) shared unexpurgated versions of the songs in his repertoire. These bawdy songs were meant to be a part of Legman’s larger project concerning erotic folksong. Upon Legman’s death in 1999, the unfinished and unpublished manuscript sank into obscurity and was believed by many to be permanently lost. Thankfully this “holy grail” of chantey texts had been safe in the private collection of Legman’s widow, Judith Legman, all along. Cabin Boys, Milkmaids, and Rough Seas: Identity in the Unexpurgated Repertoire of Stan Hugill is the first critical investigation of this repository, reproduced here for the first time. Training an interdisciplinary lens on twenty-four unexpurgated texts, author Jessica M. Floyd interrogates the articulation of gender, sexuality, and identity as it is expressed in these cultural artifacts of the sea. Opening with both a critical explication of the chantey genre, as well as situating Hugill’s repertoire in the canon of folksong, the book introduces readers to the critical realities that attend this rich cultural tradition. Analytical chapters demonstrate the kaleidoscopic representation of gender and sexuality in this finite repertoire. Each inquiry is connected and overlapping, demonstrating an ebb and flow not unlike the waters on which the songs were sung. Words of warning, heteronormative economies, and queer undercurrents each collide to present an image of sailing life that is nuanced and complicated, provocative and evocative, transgressive and sometimes radical. The volume allows scholars to place a finger on the pulse of maritime life, feeling and experiencing one voice among the din of working-class song traditions.
Author: Toronto Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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