Songquest
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Songquest

The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton

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Songquest

The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton

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The field notes of a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs, stories, and cultural history of Great Lakes sailors in the 1930s.

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.

It is clear that Walton, a professor of English at the University of Michigan, both admired the sailors of the Great Lakes for what they had done during their working years and worried about them as they entered the twilight of their lives. Walton went beyond the songs he set out to find and captured the pitch and roll of the Great Lakes alive with white-winged schooners. 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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Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780814344606
Edition
0
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Regional Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. Editor’s Note: The Essence of It All
  8. Chapter 1: 1932: Lake Michigan
  9. Chapter 2: 1933: Southern Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario
  10. Chapter 3: 1934: Southern Lake Huron
  11. Chapter 4: 1938: Beaver Island, Milwaukee, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario
  12. Glossary
  13. Bibliography
  14. Chronology of Ivan H. Walton’s Writing
  15. Index of Names
  16. Subject Index
  17. Index of Song Titles