Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors (Great Lakes Books Series)

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White-winged schooners once dominated commerce and culture at the Great Lakes, and songs relieved the hours on board, but that way of living and its music ended when steam-driven mechanical boats swept schooners from the inland seas. Recognizing within the late 1930s, almost too late, that this wealthy oral tradition used to be going to the grave in conjunction with the last generation of schoonermen, Ivan H. Walton undertook a quest to save the songs of the Great Lakes sailors. Racing time and its ravages, he searched out ancient mariners in lakefront hospitals, hangouts, and watering holes. Walton reconstructed songs from one of the vital colorful periods in American history, discovering melodies and lyrics to more than a hundred songs. With its stories, lyrics, musical scores by folksinger/historian Lee Murdock, Windjammers ensures that sailing chanteys that have not been heard for over one hundred years can also be heard time and again far into the future. An audio supplement is to be had for download at www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/windjammers

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