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Thread #173811 Message #4215486
Posted By: and e
18-Jan-25 - 07:10 AM
Thread Name: Stan Hugill Unexpurgated Songs Published
Subject: Stan Hugill Unexpurgated Songs Published
Stan Hugill's unexpurgated song texts have been published as Cabin Boys, Milkmaids, and Rough Seas: Identity in the Unexpurgated Repertoire of Stan Hugill by Jessica M Floyd. August 30, 2024.
During his correspondence with erotic folklore collector Gershon Legman, famed chantey singer and collector Stan Hugill (1906–1992) shared unexpurgated versions of the songs in his repertoire. These bawdy songs were meant to be a part of Legman’s larger project concerning erotic folksong. Upon Legman’s death in 1999, the unfinished and unpublished manuscript sank into obscurity and was believed by many to be permanently lost. Thankfully this “holy grail” of chantey texts had been safe in the private collection of Legman’s widow, Judith Legman, all along. Cabin Boys, Milkmaids, and Rough Seas: Identity in the Unexpurgated Repertoire of Stan Hugill is the first critical investigation of this repository, reproduced here for the first time....twenty-four unexpurgated texts...