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Thread #126659   Message #3540546
Posted By: SPB-Cooperator
22-Jul-13 - 07:01 PM
Thread Name: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
To me the term new shanty is a bit of a contradiction - a shanty, ie a song made for a job of work must have by definition a cut-off up to the point when sailing vessels were used for commercial shipping as opposed to sail training. Anything after this can only be a sea song written in the idiom of a working song. Even in the days of cpommercial sailing vessels there were contempory songs gthat were used for work, particulalry pumping songs.

Probably a subject for another thread - the boundary between popular songs being used at sea, and popular songs being parodied/sailorised sufficiently to be classed as a bona-fide shanty.