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Thread #166019 Message #3990226
Posted By: punkfolkrocker
01-May-19 - 12:28 PM
Thread Name: Should women sing chanties
Subject: RE: Should women sing chanties
"In the briefest way:"
.. hardly...
I think there may be 2 or 3 interesting points in there submerged under the academicese waffle..
At this point, yes it might be useful to reflect on the extent of Black sailors
in European military and merchant navies in the 18th cent...???
..and their influence on the form of shanties...?????
why not... it helps broaden and inform an educated perspective...
So, anyway, now in 2019 any women of any colour can sing shanties if they want to,
or not if they don't want to..
Whatever their reasons.
But it aint exactly going to make the real world of gender/race relations significantly better either way... is it...???
Just for the fun of it, here's Kathy Acker reimagining the shanty for her own reasons...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6E8HKuLLfI