Author: Stan Hugill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-06-15
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 1493068288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Frank Shay
Publisher:
Published: 2017-02-23
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781633915107
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Deep Sea Chanties offers a unique lens upon seafaring life punctuated with fabulous woodcut illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. From the editor, Frank Shay: "In bringing these songs together I have sought to catch for the moment the spirit of the men of the clipper-ship era. That glorious period, marked roughly by the Mexican War and the California gold rush, is finding perpetuation in the enthusiasms of those who love the sea and ships. Ship models, romances and tales of the sea, log books and nautical instruments so eagerly sought after by these enthusiasts are, after all, but outward symbols of the men who trod the decks and warped and reefed the sails. Those deeds were not accomplished with out song and the songs they sang were from their own souls: not written for them by poets and ballad-mongers. In reading them we are made privy not only to the singer but to the audience: their thoughts, their lives, and their environment." This new edition is dedicated to India D'Avignon, lifelong champion of the importance of music in our daily lives.
Author: Laura Alexandrine Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1888
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Woody Guthrie
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1983-09-15
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1440672784
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all. Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over—not by jet or motorcycle, but by boxcar, thumb, and foot. During the journey of discovery that was his life, he composed and sang words and music that have become a national heritage. His songs, however, are but part of his legacy. Behind him Woody Guthrie left a remarkable autobiography that vividly brings to life both his vibrant personality and a vision of America we cannot afford to let die. “Even readers who never heard Woody or his songs will understand the current esteem in which he’s held after reading just a few pages… Always shockingly immediate and real, as if Woody were telling it out loud… A book to make novelists and sociologists jealous.” —The Nation
Author: Garry Kilworth
Publisher: Gateway
Published: 2013-07-25
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0575114444
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To escape his life in England, John Trencher volunteers to teach schoolchildren on a tropical island. But paradise has its darker, less innocent side, and a web of violence, taboo and sexuality soon begins to wind itself around him. In the Hollow of the Deep-Sea Wave contains the compelling and erotic title tale, and seven short stories on similar themes.
Author: Ivan Walton
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780814329979
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of stories, lyrics, music and folklore centered on the Great Lakes.