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Author : Roy Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Sea Songs written by Roy Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerry Smyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712353700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (537 download)
Download or read book Sailor Song written by Gerry Smyth and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jessica Law
Publisher : Barefoot Books
ISBN 13 : 1782854835
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea written by Jessica Law and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover amazing and fascinating sea creatures in the hole in the bottom of the sea! Based on the traditional cumulative song, each verse introduces a new creature and its place in the food chain, with the shark chasing the eel, who chases the squid, who chases the snail. Enhanced CD includes videso animation and audio singalong.
Author : Jonathan Raban
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Book of the Sea written by Jonathan Raban and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inveterate sailor and bestselling author of Hunting Mister Heartbreak Jonathan Raban has compiled a remarkable anthology of our changing visions of the sea--a rich treasury of writings as varied and enthralling as the ocean itself. Arranged chronologically and spanning everything from Anglo-Saxon poetry to modern oceanography.
Author : Paul A. Gilje
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131648310X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book To Swear like a Sailor written by Paul A. Gilje and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime things. Instead, sailor swearing, indeed all swearing in this period, was connected to larger developments. This book traces the interaction between the maritime and mainstream world in the United States while examining cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, images, and material goods. To Swear Like a Sailor offers insight into the character of Jack Tar - the common seaman - and into the early republic. It illuminates the cultural connections between Great Britain and the United States and the appearance of a distinct American national identity. The book explores the emergence of sentimental notions about the common man - through the guise of the sailor - appearing on stage, in song, in literature, and in images.
Author : Christopher Stone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Sea Songs and Ballads written by Christopher Stone and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Katz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231101042
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies written by William A. Katz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference guide to poetry anthologies with descriptions and evaluations of each anthology.
Author : Eric Saylor
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270624
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Sea in the British Musical Imagination written by Eric Saylor and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10 Political Visions, National Identities, and the Sea Itself: Stanford and Vaughan Williams in 1910 -- 11 Bax's 'Sea Symphony' -- 12 'Close your eyes and listen to it': Special Sound and the Sea in BBC Radio Drama, 1957-59 -- Afterword : Channelling the Swaying Sound of the Sea -- Index
Author : Thomas Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (632 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Song Book written by Thomas Wood and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Blanning
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141976454
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Triumph of Music written by Tim Blanning and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once musicians such as Mozart were little more than court servants; now they are multimillionaire superstars wielding more power than politicians. How did this extraordinary change come about? Tim Blanning's brilliantly enjoyable book examines how everything from the cult of the romantic to technology and travel all fed the inexorable rise of music in the West, making it the most dominant and ubiquitous of the art forms. Encompassing balladeers, the great composers, jazz legends and rock gods, this is an enthralling story of power, patronage, creativity and genius.
Author : Ted Gioia
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822337263
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Work Songs written by Ted Gioia and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe place of music in different forms of work from the earliest hunting and planting to the contemporary office./div
Author : Bill Hullfish
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439667136
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Erie Canal Sings written by Bill Hullfish and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life working along the banks of the Erie Canal is preserved in the songs of America's rich musical history. Thomas Allen's "Low Bridge, Everybody Down" has achieved iconic status in the American songbook, but its true story has never been told until now. Erie songs such as "The E-ri-e Is a-Risin'" would transform into "The C&O Is a-Risin'" as the song culture spread among a network of other canals, including the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Pennsylvania Main Line. As motors replaced mules and railroads emerged, the canal song tradition continued on Broadway stages and in folk music recordings. Author Bill Hullfish takes readers on a musical journey along New York's historic Erie Canal.
Author : Denver Brunsman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813933528
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book The Evil Necessity written by Denver Brunsman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat—it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced service robbed approximately 250,000 mariners of their livelihoods, and, not infrequently, their lives, while also devastating Atlantic seaport communities and the loved ones who were left behind. Press gangs, consisting of a navy officer backed by sailors and occasionally local toughs, often used violence or the threat of violence to supply the skilled manpower necessary to establish and maintain British naval supremacy. Moreover, impressments helped to unite Britain and its Atlantic coastal territories in a common system of maritime defense unmatched by any other European empire. Drawing on ships’ logs, merchants’ papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Author : Murray Shoolbraid
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496801156
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The High-Kilted Muse written by Murray Shoolbraid and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risqué‚ and convivial songs and ballads to a Highland laird. When Professor Francis James Child of Harvard was preparing his magisterial edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, he made inquiries about it, but it was not made available in time to be considered for his work. On his death it was presented to the Child Memorial Library at Harvard. Because of its unseemly materials, the manuscript languished there since, unprinted, though referred to now and again, and a few items from time to time made an appearance. The manuscript has now been transcribed with full annotation and with an introduction on the compiler, his times, and the Scottish bawdy tradition. It contains the texts (without tunes) of seventy-six bawdy songs and ballads, along with a long-lost scatological poem attributed to the Edinburgh writer James “Balloon” Tytler. Appendices give details of Buchan's two published collections of ballads. Additionally, there is a list of tale types and motifs, a glossary of Scots and archaic words, a bibliography, and an index. The High-Kilted Muse brings to light a long-suppressed volume and fills in a great gap in published bawdy songs and ballads.
Author : Monique Layton
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525562495
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Voices from the Lower Deck written by Monique Layton and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Lower Deck examines the role of folklore as the instrument of integration and bonding for the ordinary seafarer during the Age of Sail. Mainly based on contemporary sailors narratives and historical and folkloric texts, the book evokes common themes: the harsh environment, the cruel discipline, the brutal way of life, and the release of onshore carousing and whoring, but also the coordinated work and effort of daily tasks and the tremendous pride of seeing themselves as unique men against a background of landlubbers. The psychological and physical survival of these disparate men from many origins depended on their rapid integration into the common culture––the folklore and the folkways––of what historians have called “the wooden world.”
Author : Bernhard Klein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351936557
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Fictions of the Sea written by Bernhard Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely collection brings together twelve original essays on the cultural meaning of the sea in British literature and history, from early modern times to the present. Interdisciplinary in conception, it charts metaphorical and material links between the idea of the sea in the cultural imagination and its significance for the social and political history of Britain, offering a fresh analysis of the impact of the ocean on the formation of British cultural identities. Among the cultural and literary artifacts considered are early modern legal treatises on marine boundaries, Renaissance and Romantic poetry, 19th- and 20th-century novels, popular sea songs, recent Hollywood films, as well as a diverse range of historical and critical writings. Writers discussed include Shakespeare, Milton, Coleridge, Scott, Conrad, du Maurier, Unsworth, O'Brian, and others. All these cultural and literary 'fictions of the sea' are set in relation to wider issues relevant to maritime history and the historical experience of seafaring: problems of navigation and orientation, piracy, empire, colonialism, slavery, multi-ethnic shipboard communities, masculinity, gender relations. By combining the interests of three related but distinct areas of study-the analysis of sea fiction, critical maritime history, and cultural studies-in a focus upon the historical meaning of the sea in relation to its textual and cultural representation, Fictions of the Sea offers an original contribution to the practice of existing disciplines.
Author : John Minton
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604733276
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book 78 Blues written by John Minton and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When record men first traveled from Chicago or invited musicians to studios in New York, these entrepreneurs had no conception how their technology would change the dynamics of what constituted a musical performance. 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South covers a revolution in artist performance and audience perception through close examination of hundreds of key “hillbilly” and “race” records released between the 1920s and World War II. In the postwar period, regional strains recorded on pioneering 78 r.p.m. discs exploded into urban blues and R&B, honky-tonk and western swing, gospel, soul, and rock 'n' roll. These old-time records preserve the work of some of America's greatest musical geniuses such as Jimmie Rodgers, Robert Johnson, Charlie Poole, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. They are also crucial mile markers in the course of American popular music and the growth of the modern recording industry. When these records first circulated, the very notion of recorded music was still a novelty. All music had been created live and tied to particular, intimate occasions. How were listeners to understand an impersonal technology like the phonograph record as a musical event? How could they reconcile firsthand interactions and traditional customs with technological innovations and mass media? The records themselves, several hundred of which are explored fully in this book, offer answers in scores of spoken commentaries and skits, in song lyrics and monologues, or other more subtle means.
