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Thread #149079   Message #3467547
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
17-Jan-13 - 10:00 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Swing Your Tail (chanty, worksong)
Subject: RE: Origins: Swing Your Tail (chanty, worksong)
It would appear, from the booklet's publication at Petersfield, that the compiler was the same George Marston (1882 - 1940) who'd had been the official artist with two of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expeditions.

The Oxford journal "Music and Letters" printed a brief and snide review of Marston's collection in 1922, suggesting that it was a needless rehash of familiar material.