Author: Gary Coover
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997074833
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The perfect pocket reference for sea shanties and songs of the sea from the days of the great sailing ships. One hundred thirty traditional songs with music, arranged alphabetically and sized to conveniently fit in a coat pocket, sea bag, backpack, purse or back hip pocket.Easy to learn, these favorite songs can educate or entertain, or perhaps even accompany a working tall ship crew as they turn the capstan, haul on the bowline or splice the mainbrace.Work songs, play songs and all-around fun to sing songs ¿ for the sailor, singer and pirate in everyone.
Author: Stan Hugill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493068288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
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This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.
Author: Nathan Evans
Publisher: Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
ISBN: 1787399613
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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An epic journey through sea shanties, high tides and seven seas From the international bestselling singer comes The Book of Sea Shanties. The world sang in harmony with Nathan Evans, the Glaswegian postie turned singer of sea shanties. Join him as he takes you through time and seafaring history to discover the true meaning of Wellerman, and who and what exactly was the Drunken Sailor? Featuring over 35 best loved shanties, Nathan will share the meaning behind each of his favourite shanties and show how they have shaped and inspired him. Beautifully illustrated throughout, it will also include original shanties and bonus content written exclusively for this book. Whether you're young or old, gather around and discover the riotous world of sea shanties. Praise for Nathan Evans: A 'Sea Shanty sensation' Rolling Stone 'An artist who really lifts the mood when he performs' Daily Telegraph 'Too good to miss' Brian May, Daily Express
Author: Karen Dolby
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1789293774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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A rousing collection of the most memorable and feel-good shanties in maritime history.
Author: Richard Runciman Terry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea songs
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Author: Ged Brockie
Publisher: GMI - Guitar & Music Institute
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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SEA SHANTIES ARE MORE POPULAR NOW THAN EVER. NOW YOU CAN PLAY AND SING ALONG WITH THEM IN NO TIME! Sea Shanties For Easy Guitar offers you ten of probably the most popular sea shanty songs that can be played on guitar. Play the chords and sing along with these wonderful songs from Sailors the world over. Sea Shanties For Easy Guitar offers you: All songs include lyrics and guitar chord boxes. Guitar chords and lyrics also provided in large easy to read text. The songs are all TAB'D out for you to play the melody. No sight reading skills needed. All ten songs are supported by free downloadable backing tracks and example rhythms for you to hear and learn to play from. Each song comes with a short background history. Help section for reading rhythms plus pages of extra chords for you to learn and play. SONGS INCLUDED: What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor The Wellerman Leave Her Johnny Leave Her Spanish Ladies Blow The Man Down South Australia A Drop Of Nelson’s Blood Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmates Randy Dandy Oh The Banks Of Newfoundland
Author: Gerry Smyth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712353700
Category : Sailors
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: Marek Korczynski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107000173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Whether for weavers at the handloom, laborers at the plough, or factory workers on the assembly line, music has often been a key texture in people's working lives. This book is the first to explore the rich history of music at work in Britain and charts the journey from the singing cultures of pre-industrial occupations, to the impact and uses of the factory radio, via the silencing effect of industrialization. The first part of the book discusses how widespread cultures of singing at work were in pre-industrial manual occupations. The second and third parts of the book show how musical silence reigned with industrialization, until the carefully controlled introduction of Music While You Work in the 1940s. Continuing the analysis to the present day, Rhythms of Labor explains how workers have clung to and reclaimed popular music on the radio in desperate and creative ways.
Author: Charlotte Runcie
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786891204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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'An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages. In mesmerising prose, she explores how the sea has inspired, fascinated and terrified us, and how she herself fell in love with the deep blue. This book is a walk on the beach with Turner, with Shakespeare, with the Romantic Poets and shanty-singers. It’s an ode to our oceans – to the sailors who brave their treacherous waters, to the women who lost their loved ones to the waves, to the creatures that dwell in their depths, to beachcombers, swimmers, seabirds and mermaids. Navigating through ancient Greek myths, poetry, shipwrecks and Scottish folktales, Salt On Your Tongue is about how the wild untameable waves can help us understand what it means to be human.
Author: Bill Freeman
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9780888620903
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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When John and Meg Bains heard the news of their lumberman father's death, the cold wind shaking their tiny Ottawa cabin grew even colder. If someone didn't soon start bringing in money, they would lose their modest home and find themselves on the town's raw, muddy streets. They realize that only they can support their family, and head off to a lumber camp in the Ottawa Valley for the winters' season. There they learn the difficult and dangerous work of felling big trees, squaring timber, and readying logs for the drive downriver. They also learn of the tensions that simmer between the owners of the camp and the working shantymen, tensions that threaten to explode. Spring approaches, the river swells with runoff, and the logs start their violent trip along the current. At the same time, the bosses' demands and those of the men seem bound for a collision. Set against the rough and exciting background of a 19th century lumber camp, Shantymen of Cache Lake is a classic account of two indomitable young people and their gutsy adaptation to hard times. The book is illustrated with photos chronicling Canada's huge and exciting timber trade. This is the first book in the Bains series of historical novels, well-researched, action-filled narratives following the travels of one family across Canada--from Newfoundland to Alberta-- in search of a better life during the hard times of the 1870s.
