Description:
Beginning with the earliest sources, this book traces the history of writing about chanties, creating an indispensible guide to the primary authors and sources through a century and a half of chanty literature.
Brief description: 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.