Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas

by Gerry Smyth

Book Overview

Passed down in the oral tradition and sung as working songs, sea shanties tell the compelling human stories of life on the water: hard labor, battling the elements, pining for distant loves and far-away homes. The music's rhythms are designed to galvanize the group effort of heaving, pushing, and pulling to weigh anchor, wind rope around a capstan, or set sail.

Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each shanty alongside...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295747285
• ISBN13: 9780295747286
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher