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[citation needed] An example of a more tenuous link between a new composition labeled as "shanty" and the salient characteristics of the genre, The Pogues recorded a song called "Sea Shanty". [184] The only characteristic it appears to share with the shanty genre is a 6/8 meter (displayed by some well known shanties like "Blow the Man Down").
British group The Longest Johns helped the digital revival of sea shanties with a 2018 recording of "Soon May the Wellerman Come,’ which has since seen nearly 30 million streams on YouTube and ...
The Music of the Waters: A collection of the sailors' chanties, or working songs of the sea, of all maritime nations. Boatmen's, fishermen's, and rowing songs, and water legends Laura Alexandrine Smith (1861–1902) [ 1 ] was an English musician, [ 2 ] ethnomusicologist [ 3 ] and one of the earliest collectors of sea shanties. [ 4 ]
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Banana Boat, an a cappella sextet from Poland performing "neo-shanties" as well as traditional sea-shanties in contemporary arrangements; Bounding Main, an a cappella quintet based near Kenosha, Wisconsin; Captain Bogg and Salty, a pirate-themed rock band which performs many traditional shanties, as well as writing several of their own
Ariope is now one of eight songs that Souza has composed for the album Port'Inglês - meaning English port - to explore the little-known history of the 120-year-old British presence in Cape Verde.
"The Sweet Trinity" (Roud 122, Child 286), also known as "The Golden Vanity" or "The Golden Willow Tree", is an English folk song or sea shanty.The first surviving version, about 1635, was "Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally)".
It contained 50 songs, half of which would find their way into most modern shanty books or repertoires. [4] Whall's book preceded the collection of another genuine seafarer Frank Thomas Bullen (1857–1915). Bullen went to sea in 1869 aged 12 and later became a prolific novelist. At the end of his life, he set out 42 shanties in his interesting ...