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Audio Recording Two Sailors: Sea Shanties and Canal Boat Ballads Dutch Jollification Song

Two Sailors: Sea Shanties and Canal Boat Ballads

About this Item

Title

  • Two Sailors: Sea Shanties and Canal Boat Ballads

Other Title

  • Dutch Jollification Song

Names

  • Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948 (Interviewer)
  • Nye, Pearl R., 1872-1950 (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • circa 1941

Headings

  • -  Folk songs, English
  • -  Ballads, English
  • -  Canal-boats--Songs and music
  • -  Music
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Songs
  • -  Spoken word
  • -  United States of America -- Ohio -- Akron

Genre

  • Music
  • Field recordings
  • Songs
  • Spoken word

Notes

  • -  This excerpt from "Two Sailors: Sea Shanties and Canal Boat Ballads" contains commentary by John A. Lomax as well as portions of a 1937 field interview between Lomax and Pearl R. Nye that took place in Akron, Ohio. "Two Sailors: Sea Shanties and Canal Boat Ballads" is one of 10 radio programs making up "The Ballad Hunter" radio series.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFS L 51
  • AFC 1937/002: AFS L 51

Source Collection

  • Captain Pearl R. Nye collection (AFC 1937/002)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line

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Captain Pearl R. Nye collection (AFC 1937/002), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Lomax, John A, and Pearl R Nye. Two Sailors: Sea Shanties and Canal Boat Ballads. 1941. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcnye000192/.

APA citation style:

Lomax, J. A. & Nye, P. R. (1941) Two Sailors: Sea Shanties and Canal Boat Ballads. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcnye000192/.

MLA citation style:

Lomax, John A, and Pearl R Nye. Two Sailors: Sea Shanties and Canal Boat Ballads. 1941. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afcnye000192/>.