Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors

by Ivan Walton and Joe Grimm

Book Overview

White-winged schooners once dominated commerce and culture on the Great Lakes, and songs relieved the hours on board, but that way of life and its music ended when steam-driven mechanical boats swept schooners from the inland seas. Recognizing in the late 1930s, almost too late, that this rich oral tradition was going to the grave along with the last generation of schoonermen, Ivan H. Walton undertook a quest to save the songs of the Great Lakes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814329977
• ISBN13: 9780814329979
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"