Songs of the Sea (from "Thar She Blows Again")

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Nothing kept spirits up at sea like belting out a rousing work song. Ethnomusicologist Gibb Schreffler demonstrates the call and response format of the sea chanty genre and sings Sally Brown, a popular chanty of the 1830’s.

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