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Thread #167430 Message #4038773
Posted By: Steve Gardham
10-Mar-20 - 10:20 AM
Thread Name: Maritime work song in general
Subject: RE: Maritime work song in general
Gibb's researches show pretty conclusively that one of the contributory factors towards the advent of chanties was indeed slave rowing songs in the Caribbean, from about 1800 up to 1830. As I said in the other thread the major impetus came from the stevedores in the Gulf ports but there are a few textual connections with the earlier rowing songs like Sally Brown.