Boxing the Compass - A Century and a Half of Discourse About Sailor's Chanties

How do we know what we know about chanties? Beginning with the earliest sources, this book traces the history of writing about chanties - exploring the layers of discourse that have developed as authors and collectors have relied on, borrowed from, and contradicted those that came before them - creating an indispensible guide to the primary authors and sources through a century and a half of chanty literature.

About the author

Gibb Schreffler, Assistant Professor of Music at Pomona College, has research interests that span diverse musical-cultural areas, including vernacular music and dance of South Asia's Punjab region, historical work-songs of American maritime culture, and the aesthetics of Jamaican popular music.

Product details

• Authors: Gibb Schreffler
• Publisher: Loomis House Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2018
• EAN: 9781935243816
• ISBN: 978-1-935243-81-6
• No. of pages: 116
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 181 g
• Series: Occasional Papers in Folklore; Occasional Papers in Folklore
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries