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Shanties From The Seven Seas,
Titel:
Shanties From The Seven Seas
Naam uitgever:
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM
Jaar van uitgave:
First Published 1961
Omschrijving:
Shanty verklaring
Aantal pagina's:
430
Paginanummer:
27
Taal:
Engels
Plaats van uitgave:
Connecticut
Auteur:
Collected by Stan Hugill
INTRODUCTION THE ART OF THE SHANTYMAN
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^^^ HANTIES were the work-songs of the sailing-ship man; the staves John Salt, Huw Puw, Jean Mat'lot,
''^^*N^^ ^ and Jan Maat tipped at capstan, halyard, sheet, and V^^v ^ y pumps. In the Trades or off the pitch o' the Horn, in ^^»—> ^ hail and snow, in doldrum and calm, the not un- melodious voices of Yankee, Nigger, Limey, Squarehead, Johnny Crapoo, and Dutchie would oft-times be raised to cheer the soul, curse the afterguard and owner, mark the beat, and lighten the labour. To the seamen of America, Britain, and northern Europe a shanty
was as much a part of the equipment as a sheath-knife and pannikin. Shanties were always associated with work—and a rigid tabu held against singing them ashore. When the sailor caroused ashore, or sang at sea in the dog-watches, his choice would invariably be a popular ballad, love song, or the like. To sing a shanty when there was no heaving or hauling would be courting trouble—and the sailing-ship man was superstitious to a degree. The aged mariners who are still with us must groan inwardly as
they hear the smooth attempts of a trained radio singer declaring some of their Rabelaisian favourites to a receptive audience without the harmony(?) of the Cape Stiff gale and the cursing mates. The day of the shanty as a work-song is done, and now it is left to the Oriental —the Japanese and Chinese junk seamen, the Moslem and Indian coolie, the African Negro—to carry on the tradition of singing at labour. It is quite possible that one of the many origins from which the art of shantying and even some of the shanties themselves developed is that of the age-old Oriental coolie method of chanting when doing a job of work. Early shantying was, from what we know, little more than primi-
tive chanting and wild aboriginal cries to encourage the seamen to keep time and work harder, and the fierce elemental yells on a rope known as 'sing-outs' were to be heard even in modern times aboard I
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