Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore;: Three essays on shantying in the West Indies (Publications of the American Folklore Society)

By Roger D. Abrahams

Book Overview

This volume surveys the importance of sea shanties in the Leeward and Windward Islands of the West Indies. In the first chapter the author surveys the documentary record of these work songs in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292715021
• ISBN13: 9780292715028
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.