Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies by Roger D. Abrahams
Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies

Roger D. Abrahams

Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies

Roger D. Abrahams

144 pages first pub 1970 (editions)

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This volume surveys the importance of sea shanties in the Leeward and Windward Islands of the West Indies. In the first chapter the author surveys the documentary record of these work songs in the islands and throughout the maritime world. The bal...

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