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Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H Walton
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This is the long-awaited companion book to "Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors." Windjammers gave you the songs and some of the stories behind the songs. Songquest is an engaging look at three years of Professor Walton's Journals, the records he kept of life on the road in search of the old songs. Ivan H. Walton was a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs and stories of aging sailors living along the shores of the Great Lakes in the 1930s. His collection is unique in the annals of Great Lakes folklore. It began as a search for songs but broadened into a collection of weather signs, shipboard beliefs, greenhorn tales, and stories of the intense rivalry between sailors and the steamboat men who replaced them. Edited by Joe Grimm, Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton is a selection from the daily journals Walton wrote during his travels as a folklore collector. His writings provide a clear picture of the colorful individuals he met and interviewed—captains, cabin boys, tugmen, chandlers, boardinghouse owners, dredgers, and light keepers. Walton also documented the methods he used and recorded his personal thoughts about his nomadic life and the events going on around him during the 1930s, including the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt's election, and the end of Prohibition.
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$28.00
272 pages / 7 x 10 49 illustrations, 4 maps
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