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    1. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

      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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    2. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

      Sea shanties contain important information for sailors in periods where they might not be literate or able to carry maps. Take the famous "Spanish Ladies" which on the surface is about women, ranting, and roaring. In reality, it codifies navigation info.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24O3dtse-94&ab_channel=TheLongestJohns-Topic …

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    3. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

      Here are some lyrics not about ladies: "Until we strike soundings In the Channel of old England, From Ushant to Scilly 'tis thirty-five leagues... So the first land we made, it is called the Deadman, Next Ram Head, off Plymouth, Start, Portland, and the Wight"pic.twitter.com/gXQnTFY3Eb

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    4. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

      This is a nautical chart from Spain to Britain: soundings are depth measurements at sea, there is the distance measurement between Ushant, France, to the island of Scilly, a deadman is a spot for tying off a ship on shore, and the subsequent locations are west-east visual markerspic.twitter.com/J0RUGXIfFZ

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    5. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

      So what we see here is a song as a method of archiving and sharing important information. It certainly isn't the first time song has been used for preserving information (e.g. Aboriginal songlines). The other purpose for sea shanties is for facilitating work.

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    6. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

      The rhythms among sea shanties relates to the type of work that they were meant to guide. For example, there are heaving/hauling shanties, which were sung while heaving/hauling on lines. Cpt Johnson explains the ha-he rhythm in 1929 Around Cape Hornhttps://youtu.be/9tuTKhqWZso?t=693 …

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    7. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

      This work-based design is why sea shanties typically don't have instruments and there is often a call-and-response, as there is one person leading the group on the work/song. Leave her Johnny is an examples in 4/4 time with lines 2 and 4 sung in chorus.https://youtu.be/gEWS5dGSDOc 

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    8. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

      Sea Shanties are quite simple so that they keep the rhythm of work, but also so they can be shortened or extended for the duration of the work. Sea shanties like "Haul on the Bowline" straight up tell you what they're designed for.https://youtu.be/nHjgUT6UJRg 

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    9. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

      The call-and-response format of sea shanties later re-emerged in popular music. The Pogues used the sea shanty style in a number of songs with South Australia borrowing a hauling-style rhythm and call-and-response.https://youtu.be/lM5x3TJpP24 

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    10. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

      That's a brief intro to sea shanties and why they're so distinctive. There's more nuance - naval vs merchant songs - which I'll defer to specialists, as my knowledge of sea shanties comes from working on tall ships and maritime history as it relates to shipwrecks I've found. Fin.pic.twitter.com/0m1xh1PX0H

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      Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

      Important note- the role of Black sailors. I saw a SHA or SAA presentation a few years ago on major % of Black mariners in 19th c. merchant navies and the role of Black work songs in the development of sea shanties- pls post if anyone knows the research.

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        2. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

          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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        3. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

          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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        4. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

          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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        5. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

          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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        6. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13

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          Probably the best of the tiktok shanties. https://twitter.com/Beertheist/status/1348759849077714951?s=20 …

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        7. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 14

          Peter Campbell Retweeted weird animal shouty guy

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          This is probably as good a cultural moment as any to remind the world that Sea Shanties are Black Music. https://twitter.com/Beertheist/status/1348759849077714951 …
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        8. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 14

          Here's a great video of a crew singing while coming into harbour, though most of them aren't actually hauling. Thanks @liberalicioushttps://youtu.be/t8s_Z13jEeo 

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        2. Joshua Robert Clark‏ @SoAlternative Jan 13
          Replying to @peterbcampbell

          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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        3. Joshua Robert Clark‏ @SoAlternative Jan 13
          Replying to @SoAlternative @peterbcampbell

          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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        2. MarshmallowJoshFight𖤐🜏‏ @QueenCaoCao Jan 13
          Replying to @peterbcampbell

          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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        3. Peter Campbell‏Verified account @peterbcampbell Jan 13
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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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