Frederick Pease Harlow
Frederick Pease Harlow
Since its understated appearance in 1962, Chanteying Aboard American Ships has proved itself a valuable, yet elusive, firsthand source for nineteenth-cemury maritime music. Frederick Harlow s shipboard experience* careful eye for detail, expertise in square-rig mechanics, and clear descriptions illuminate how work songs actually worked. His three voyages—deepwater on the ship Akbar, coasting aboard the schooner David G. Fleyd, and trading to the Caribbean on the bark Conquest—articulate a full range of maritime experiences and the music surrounding each. Moreover, his eyewitness accounts of the African-Caribbean roots of sea music are singular.
This new Mystic Seaport edition of
Chanteying Aboard American Shifts includes a new foreword by Harlow scholar Glenn Grasso and new illustrations drawn from the collections of Mystic Seaport, where the Harlow archives now reside.
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