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Thread #9242 Message #3802619
Posted By: Lighter
29-Jul-16 - 12:04 PM
Thread Name: sea shanties
Subject: RE: sea shanties
>in which "chanties" and "sailors' songs" blur together
Haven't they always?
One difference between Now and Then may be, however, that the ballad-like sailors' songs of earlier times (both "trad" and "composed") couldn't have been automatically associated, as they are today, with the chantey genre. Few non-sailors knew what a chantey was (hmmm...sounds familiar), and there was no recognition of trad/folk/renfaire genres to unite the two.