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The shanty was a distinct type of work song, developed especially in American-style merchant vessels that had come to prominence in decades prior to the American Civil War.
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Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.
Grabski's shanty was beyond the bridge over the River Bystrzyca near the rail center.
The Allende Government was also able to draw upon the idealism of its supporters, with teams of " Allendistas " travelling into the countryside and shanty towns to perform volunteer work.
It was named for a lone shanty made of bark, which was used to make shingles from pine.
A small general store run from a " rough board shanty " just north of the railroad was the town's first business, but this was joined by many more as the town grew.
Education in Chesaning had its beginnings during the summer of 1843 when a small board shanty was built on the east side of the river.
School was held in a claim shanty in section 19 and on what is now the Carl Engebretson farm.
Totally inadequate to house the 10, 000-plus employees, Fort Peck was soon joined by numerous shanty towns, including Wheeler, New Deal, Delano Heights, and Park Grove.
Although there were no regular settlers at that time there was a hunter's shanty near the site of the present Banner House and Drew lived in the shanty while clearing the land and building on the west shore.
Delius later liked to represent his house at Solano Grove as " a shanty ", but it was a substantial cottage of four rooms, with plenty of space for Delius to entertain guests.
The Minister for Territories, Paul Hasluck, offered him free land in a reserve on the outskirts of Alice Springs, but this was rejected, and Namatjira and his family took up residence in a squalid shanty at Morris Soak — a dry creek bed some distance from Alice Springs.
The first person to settle in the area was Joseph Gardenier, who built a log shanty on Cedar Creek, in what is now Hamilton.
The shanty was his headquarters for surveying for the construction of the Green Bay Road.
A shanty ( also spelled " chantey ," " chanty ") is a type of work song that was once commonly sung to accompany labor on board large merchant sailing vessels.
The shanty genre was typified by flexible lyrical forms, which in practice provided for much improvisation and the ability to lengthen or shorten a song to match the circumstances.
While this practice was analogous to the practice of what is later called singing “ capstan shanties ,” the form of these verses is not particularly similar to later shanties, and these songs do not appear to correspond to any shanty known to us from later eras.
He claimed they were singing, “ Heigh Jim along, Jim along Josey, Heigh Jim along, Jim along Jo !” The implication is that this song was similar to a sailor song, probably the well-known shanty, “ Haul Away, Joe ” or “ Haul Away for Rosie ,” viz.
" The writer did not make a further connection to the minstrel song “ Jim Along Josey ," a relationship to which is obvious, although it is unknown whether this was the inspiration for the shanty or vice versa.
By the period of American Civil War, the shanty form was fully developed, after which its repertoire grew and its implementation was widespread and rather standardized.
As a result, though much of the vanishing shanty repertoire was preserved in skeletal form, aspects of the genre were re-envisioned according to contemporary perceptions.
shanty and distinct
Of uncertain etymological origin, the word shanty emerged in the mid-19th century in reference to an appreciably distinct genre of work song, developed especially in American-style merchant vessels that had come to prominence in decades prior to the American Civil War.
However, the shanty genre is distinct among various global work song phenomena.
shanty and type
However, these older songs can be distinguished from the later type of songs that actually received the label shanty, suggesting there were other formative influences that gave birth to an appreciably new and distinctly recognized phenomenon.
Even as shanty singing to accompany work aboard ships was “ dying ,” interest was being taken in “ reviving ” it — as a type of leisure pastime.
Stamp and go shanty ( also called a " runaway " or " walk away " shanty ): Although technically a hauling action, the work accompanied by this type of shanty was continuous in nature.
* Sea shanty, a type of shipboard work-song
* sometimes a sea shanty, a type of shipboard working song which flourished from the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century.
The sailors would coordinate the rhythm of their movements by singing a particular type of sea shanty as they walked around the capstan.
shanty and work
The term shanty most accurately refers to a specific style of work song belonging to this historical repertoire, however in recent, popular usage, the scope of its definition is sometimes expanded to admit a wider range of repertoire and characteristics, or to refer to a “ maritime work song ” in general.
The phrase " sea shanty " carries a similar redundancy as the phrases " ATM machine " or " chai tea ", in that the word " shanty " alone already conveys the meaning of a sea-related work song.
Nevertheless, " sea shanty / chantey " has become a reality of popular usage, where it helps to disambiguate the work song genre from other meanings of the word " shanty.
Liberal use of the word " shanty " by folklorists of the 20th century expanded the term's conceptual scope to include " sea-related work songs " in general.
Use of the term " shanty ," once this paradigm for singing had become a comprehensive practice for most tasks, incorporated all manner of shipboard work songs under its definition, regardless of style and origin.
Even while the proliferation of soft-scholarly books was reifying the shanty repertoire, a few American scholars were audio-recording some of the last surviving sailors that had sung shanties as part of their daily work.
He later made recordings of African-American work songs in Georgia and elsewhere, and sought to demonstrate correspondences between these and the shanty genre.
It is unknown whether any actual performances were based on this otherwise influential work, however, the proceedings from a meeting of the Manchester Literary Club, 4 February 1895, record an instance of laypersons attempting to recreate shanty performance at that early date.
Due to this, shanty texts might have been poor from an aesthetic standpoint — even at times random nonsense — so long as the singing fit the form of the work song.
As evident from the last lyric, above, shanty lyrics were not limited to seafaring or work topics.
Windlass shanty: Modern shanties were used to accompany work at the patent windlass, which was designed to raise anchor and was operated by the see-saw like action of pumping hand brakes.
Swedish uses sjömansvisa, " sailor song ," as a broad category, but tends to use the borrowed " shanty " to denote a work song.
Similarly, Norwegian uses sjømannsvise as the broad category and the borrowed term sjanti ( also spelled " shanty ") or the native opsang for work songs.
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