Many people know sea shanties from Hollywood movies like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or video games like Assassin's Creed Black Flag. While sea shanties are catchy tunes, the actual songs have deeper meaning.https://youtu.be/AkjTGCrLvAU
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In the English Folk Dance and Song Society archive you can listen to recordings of shanties showing the influence of Black music. The attached images shows a Black musician atop a capstan playing a hauling shanty in 1832. https://www.efdss.org/55-resources/learning-resources/4079-black-sailors-shanties …pic.twitter.com/NleUJtwC4P
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Black sailors appear in the English navy as early as the Tudor Period and were a major & of later merchant navies - and especially pirate vessels, who offered a more egalitarian shipboard society. So Black sailors had a role in sea shanties from the start. https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/researchers/research-guides/research-guide-finding-black-and-asian-sailors …
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If you have the itch, Spotify has a playlist of Assassins Creed's remastered sea shanties:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/13pMPjxIFTdbP27196dAFA?si=7zrD_CC4Re6vAIq0P8qjoA …
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Do sea shanties have a future in the 21st century? The workplace may no longer need work songs. Perhaps the call-and-response and repetitive rhythms could be re-emerge in protest songs.pic.twitter.com/xkTHtkUsEZ
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Probably the best of the tiktok shanties. https://twitter.com/Beertheist/status/1348759849077714951?s=20 …
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Here's a great video of a crew singing while coming into harbour, though most of them aren't actually hauling. Thanks
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The first Saturday of each month (in better times), the National Park Service hosts a free Sea Chantey Sing on board a historic ship at the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco, and in February, they focus on the contributions of Black sailors to chanteys. (https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/chantey-sing.htm …)
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One of the things I've learned there is that often, though ships were integrated, work crews would be segregated, so you'd have the black crew working on deck while the white crew slept below ... but they could hear the other crew's singing.
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My mother taught me about Jamaican fishermen and boatmen, and how they'd sing call & response songs; I'm trying to find this one she sang to me decades ago! Also, the Banana Boat song, (Day-Oh) is another example of Call & response singing by boatmen in the old days!
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Very interesting, thanks! I worked with the fishermen of Bluefields a number of years ago, if I ever make it back I'll ask them about songs.
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