Hello Everyone! I have started a second channel called "Roar!" where I take on challenges and push myself out of my comfort zone. You can check it out here: ua-cam.com/users/roarrawr
I grew up singing sea shanties - one of my ancestors was a New England ship's captain, and my father and grandfather sailed on the Great Lakes. My #2 child was stopped from singing her favorite song in her music class when she was six - the teacher objected to the chorus of "Rolling Down to Old Maui" where it states "And we won't give a damn/ When we drink our rum/ with the girls of old Maui". I wasn't sure what was objectionable: "damn", rum, or the girls of old Maui.
Haha, sad but so funny. Maybe the teacher objected to the mere thought about life at sea? Probably wasn't much of a sailor. But many a landlubber trying their luck at sea have found their way into the shanties. And "class" rhymes remarkably well with "-ss".
Sea shanties are just basically sad songs that sailors/pirates make to sing about their pain and suffering and how they smile laugh and joy through it with their crew! It's rather dark and beautiful at the same time
That's part of it the main reason is work songs. Sing along while the whole group heaves or hoes in time. And it didn't "originate" with slaves, all types of working labor all sang them.
sea shanties were work songs sung by sailors while rigging, or adjusting sails, rowing, or whatever. they're very rhythmic which is in line with the work they were doing. they use a call-and-response structure like other work songs to keep the song going by improvising lyrics. being a sailor sucked, no, thats an understatement. it was a grueling, terrible job full of death, hardship, and disease. it makes sense why they're usually sad.
It's weird to see sea shanties trending. I'm a member of the Lytham St Annes Shanty Crew, formed in late 2015. We supplement traditional sea shanties with original sea songs, raising money primarily for the local lifeboats, but the pandemic has us in dry dock. Hopefully the resurgence in interest in shanties will endure so that when we can resume... Thanks for this interesting and detailed history.
They were work songs for the most part? A way to keep a steady rhythm while doing tasks such as manning the rigging, setting sails, and raising anchor. Humans have possibly been using songs like shanties for thousands of years.
Shanties were purely work songs, at least during the age of sail. Over the years they've been adapted to every kind of music from jazz to heavy metal, though they're still most often sung unaccompanied. Shanties were only sung long enough to complete a task, too. The longest jobs, like pumping out the bilge for your four hour shift, often had long, complex songs full of plot, and often lots of sex, so as to keep the sailors' minds off the repetitive pumping. Same for a long haul shanty. Shorter jobs, like "bunting" a sail (furling) had less plot and more places to put the sailors' weight into it. If you were a sailor back then and wanted to sing on your off hours you were likely to sing the top hits of the day rather than a work song. What's neat about this is that many sailor's journals recorded these songs and so we know a little bit about what they were entertaining themselves with on their off hours. And yes, work songs go back to the dawn of singing, I'm sure. Good question!
I've pleasure-cruised through most of your YT and this vid really stood out since it was so stylistically different. Wiki videos like this, but about culturally significant (and dare I say sensitive) topis that still hold degrees of relevance to vocal practices extremely fascinating. I understand this post is over a year old but I hope you return to visit this style of content. It's top tier.
This was a good and interesting video. I love the fact that a TiK Tok video made shanties popular and cool but I hate that people still aren't finding The Longest Johns have been pumping out great shanties and music for years
Your followers might be interested to view The Shanty Show on UA-cam where the members of Pressgang Mutiny coped with the covid restrictions by interviewing various other shanty singers.
Astonishing video, and you seem to like history, by the way you talk about it, at least music history I guess :) anyway, thanks for the vid, know much more now thanks to you :)
Hello Beth, I recently found out that The Harp Twins I had mentioned before had discovered that they had some Scottish ancestry in their family background. Which I am glad to hear. They showed this in their choice of dress and singing style. Love your channel. Stay safe.
The Sloop Clearwater, which was the dream of folk singer Pete Seeger, sails up and down the Hudson River in the state of New York taking out school children and the public and presenting concerts with the mission of cleaning up the river and keeping it clean. Sea Shanties are standard fare on their cruises which combine history, culture, and environmental education.
You forgot the whaling song that help save the whales. Judy Collins Farewell To Tarwathie. With just her voice and the songs of the whales it got people interested is the save the whales foundation.
Hi Beth, it´s always nice to see you on screen 😊. Interesting to hear about the Sea Shanties. Had no idea about that so far. Like the versatility of vour channel. Keep it up! I wish you all the best and stay safe ... if you´re bored and find a few minutes , please make me happy by reacting on a cover of Floor Jansen "Adagio -Lara Fabian (cover by Floor Jansen)" 😍
I enjoy leaning about music history and audio science as much as I enjoy music itself. So I thank you Miss Beth for giving us both. I made my own shanty. Watch Beth twice a week Watch Beth twice a week Mondays for artist analysis Fridays for music education Watch Beth twice a week Watch Beth twice a week
Teehee, loved the vid, but hmm, maybe just a small error crept in there. That painting you showed when you mentioned English folk songs, was actually by , Pieter Breugel, The Elder, who was Flemish. And, of course, a lot of sea shanties were VERY rude! Well as you mentioned, sailors were often at sea for a long time, so sexual songs were popular.
Oh, now I won't sleep :) can't wait to see it. Because of course there is no dark side in shanties :) I love shanties from all over the world, but our Polish are the best :) you are doing great job Beth, will watch your channel till you stop uploading, so I hope forever ;)
Historian here. I think you put your skills in didactics to great use here. Especially because the history of music is, in my experience, quite a niche-field and is perceived as not very "attractive" by the general public. Therefore I am glad you made this video. I'd love to see more of this type of content!
The whaling ships treated the crew differently than other ships. They paid the crew a share of the profits, not a fixed wage. Higher or more skilled positions got a larger cut. For much of the trip they were over-staffed, so the work was lighter. When they spotted a whale it got very busy and very dangerous.
Halo a Tiedseir! Missed you live, but wanted to say raar anyway. Have you given any thought to making a video on "Bothan Àirigh am Bràigh Raithneach "? Working on my Gaelic, and with any luck I'll be sounding like an idiot in two languages soon. Tapadh leibh agus Slainte! (Sorry, don't know how to add accents) Raar!
In the 19th century Russia, a famous poet wrote (I'm paraphrasing) : the British are smart and invent lots of machines to do work, but Russians just pull harder and sing an old working song. He also famously wrote about men towing river vessels (instead of, say, horses) and singing sad songs. But when his friend, a painter, met these workers who towed boats, and made a painting of them, he saw that they couldn't sing while working, because they had to wear straps across the chest, to pull the boat, and couldn't take a full breath.
A lot of this is rumours that circulate around. I've been looking into this a lot longer than the current trend. I am very interested where this tattooing and murdering slaves thing comes from? I didn't notice anything in the blogs you posted as your references. It stands out especially because that picture shown depicts a very strange thing indeed - and it just really seems exactly the kind of thing people like to say. Where were these heads going? There was just 'a market' for them I suppose... How strange.
Hey! The original preservation of heads is called Mokomakai. I found quite a few articles on this. Here are a couple: allthatsinteresting.com/mokomokai www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-14/mokomokai-maori-heads-stuff-the-british-stole-repatriations/12771180?nw=0
Another reaction I am looking forward to. If you want a really different version of a sea shanty. May I suggest 2 young ladies called the Harp Twins. They are identical twins that both play the harp. But the compose and sing music that most people do not associate with the harp. Such as rock and metal songs. Or a sea chanty called The Daemon Lover.
Greetings from Portugal, Beth. Would appreciate one of your most dramatic reactions to Avenged Sevenfold - A Little Piece of Heaven - any live version prior to 2009 (year of death of their former drummer) such as Live at the LBC. Cheers
as a sailor myself some of the facts your are say are true but 80% you have just looked up online there are no dark side of of a sea shanties but that is up to your own perception of the words i would say this is a grate vid but the perception of wording is incorrect
Anyone who thinks sea shanties are silly clearly have never been out drinking with guys from the navy! Sometimes you need to know what to do with a drunken sailor
I expect that Stan Rogers' Barrett's Privateers would be a capstan shanty. And Tanglefoot's Traighli Bay is "in the style of" and not an actual shanty.
Hello Everyone! I have started a second channel called "Roar!" where I take on challenges and push myself out of my comfort zone.
You can check it out here: ua-cam.com/users/roarrawr
I grew up singing sea shanties - one of my ancestors was a New England ship's captain, and my father and grandfather sailed on the Great Lakes.
My #2 child was stopped from singing her favorite song in her music class when she was six - the teacher objected to the chorus of "Rolling Down to Old Maui" where it states "And we won't give a damn/ When we drink our rum/ with the girls of old Maui". I wasn't sure what was objectionable: "damn", rum, or the girls of old Maui.
Haha, sad but so funny. Maybe the teacher objected to the mere thought about life at sea? Probably wasn't much of a sailor. But many a landlubber trying their luck at sea have found their way into the shanties. And "class" rhymes remarkably well with "-ss".
The dark side of sea shanties is the fact that I enjoy them even though they have the similar meanings as the song "ring around the rosie"
Sea shanties are just basically sad songs that sailors/pirates make to sing about their pain and suffering and how they smile laugh and joy through it with their crew! It's rather dark and beautiful at the same time
That's part of it the main reason is work songs. Sing along while the whole group heaves or hoes in time. And it didn't "originate" with slaves, all types of working labor all sang them.
So, country music for pirates?
Loooowlaaands awaaaaay meee jooooohn
@@717UT sea music to be exact
sea shanties were work songs sung by sailors while rigging, or adjusting sails, rowing, or whatever. they're very rhythmic which is in line with the work they were doing. they use a call-and-response structure like other work songs to keep the song going by improvising lyrics. being a sailor sucked, no, thats an understatement. it was a grueling, terrible job full of death, hardship, and disease. it makes sense why they're usually sad.
I am so excited for this one!
Thanks Katriinka! Love your channel btw!
@@BethRoars love goes straight back to you! you are an amazing and inspiring creator :)
Me too.
Two of my favourite reactors on one thread? I suspect I’m going to have a good month
What a strange coincidence, I just finished playing Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag. One of the side activities was collecting Sea Shanties lol.
I loved listening to the crew members sing their heart out with each song
AC black Flag was the reason that made me love sea shanties🌊😂❤️
The sea shantys tho made it dope
It's weird to see sea shanties trending. I'm a member of the Lytham St Annes Shanty Crew, formed in late 2015. We supplement traditional sea shanties with original sea songs, raising money primarily for the local lifeboats, but the pandemic has us in dry dock. Hopefully the resurgence in interest in shanties will endure so that when we can resume...
Thanks for this interesting and detailed history.
They were work songs for the most part? A way to keep a steady rhythm while doing tasks such as manning the rigging, setting sails, and raising anchor. Humans have possibly been using songs like shanties for thousands of years.
Shanties were purely work songs, at least during the age of sail. Over the years they've been adapted to every kind of music from jazz to heavy metal, though they're still most often sung unaccompanied. Shanties were only sung long enough to complete a task, too. The longest jobs, like pumping out the bilge for your four hour shift, often had long, complex songs full of plot, and often lots of sex, so as to keep the sailors' minds off the repetitive pumping. Same for a long haul shanty. Shorter jobs, like "bunting" a sail (furling) had less plot and more places to put the sailors' weight into it.
If you were a sailor back then and wanted to sing on your off hours you were likely to sing the top hits of the day rather than a work song. What's neat about this is that many sailor's journals recorded these songs and so we know a little bit about what they were entertaining themselves with on their off hours.
And yes, work songs go back to the dawn of singing, I'm sure. Good question!
I wouldn't be surprised that people have been singing to keep time since the dawn of singing.
I like how Beth's channel is becoming of mix of everything around singing: History, Interviews and ofc the reactions. LOVE IT!
Thank you! It was a bit scary to branch out but great to see people enjoy it!
I've pleasure-cruised through most of your YT and this vid really stood out since it was so stylistically different. Wiki videos like this, but about culturally significant (and dare I say sensitive) topis that still hold degrees of relevance to vocal practices extremely fascinating. I understand this post is over a year old but I hope you return to visit this style of content. It's top tier.
I greatly appreciate the research that must have gone into making this video, and the execution as well. really nice!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hooray, up she rises early in the morning!
I wasn't expecting this, what a great video!!
Glad you liked it!
I always thought Leave Her Johnny was dark. Now I know the whole format has a dark history.
People forget life just a hundred or so years ago was dark for everyone.
Find Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy’s performance for a wonderfully haunting rendition.
This was a good and interesting video. I love the fact that a TiK Tok video made shanties popular and cool but I hate that people still aren't finding The Longest Johns have been pumping out great shanties and music for years
Are you going to wear an eye patch? Rawrrrrr, me hearty!
Have fun with this. I can't wait to watch this episode.
I wish I had thought of that. Maybe you could stick an eyepatch sticker on your screen when watching? 😂
Good episode Beth, thanks for your hard work. You make a cheery pirate!
Your followers might be interested to view The Shanty Show on UA-cam where the members of Pressgang Mutiny coped with the covid restrictions by interviewing various other shanty singers.
Thanks as a sailor I liked this story. You have a new subscriber.
Damn, what an interesting topic! Just the random bit of knowledge that I wanna hear 😁 I hope you react to Alestorm now haha
Wonderfully made video! You're great
Astonishing video, and you seem to like history, by the way you talk about it, at least music history I guess :) anyway, thanks for the vid, know much more now thanks to you :)
Glad you enjoyed it! I do like history especially history that challenges our assumptions. Thanks for commenting!
This was very interesting!
Thank you Beth. Great job! 🧡
You are so welcome!
If Chris Cornell was hauling a dredge in the Firth of Fourth the oysters would have lasted about two minutes, he would have durged them right out 🤙🤣
The most instructive and exciting video i have seen today! Thank you so much!
New direction is awesome! Psychology of music is pretty interesting stuff too.
Thank you!
Hello Beth, I recently found out that The Harp Twins I had mentioned before had discovered that they had some Scottish ancestry in their family background. Which I am glad to hear. They showed this in their choice of dress and singing style. Love your channel. Stay safe.
Thanks for the info
The Sloop Clearwater, which was the dream of folk singer Pete Seeger, sails up and down the Hudson River in the state of New York taking out school children and the public and presenting concerts with the mission of cleaning up the river and keeping it clean. Sea Shanties are standard fare on their cruises which combine history, culture, and environmental education.
May we all sing the same motivating/coordinating shanty of shared humanity and planetary harmony!
Nothing like sailing in Valheim and playing some shanties.
Well. I guess there are actually a lot of games that you can sail in. But still.
From the sea obviously
To all those who lost their lives in the sea. Rest in peace.
Love your vids so much
Thank you for this great in-depth explanation on many things. Learning is always welcome. Much Love. Maybe sing us a shanty sometime.
There used to be a frozen crumbed seafood snack here in Australia called Sea Shantys.
Can't wait to watch this, You are a great UA-camr!
Thank you so much!
@@BethRoars It was a good video, Your videos teach me alot of stuff!
Well, so much for all those metal and grunge videos I usually get in my UA-cam feed - now it will be full of sea shanty videos.
i like this mini documentaries. any other story to tell/ share?
You forgot the whaling song that help save the whales. Judy Collins Farewell To Tarwathie. With just her voice and the songs of the whales it got people interested is the save the whales foundation.
my god, I love the sound of your voice! Whish you the best..
Watch the video from The Dubliners 40 Year Reunion concert with Barney McKenna singing "South Australia." He shows how a shanty is to be sung.
Hi Beth, it´s always nice to see you on screen 😊. Interesting to hear about the Sea Shanties. Had no idea about that so far. Like the versatility of vour channel. Keep it up! I wish you all the best and stay safe ... if you´re bored and find a few minutes , please make me happy by reacting on a cover of Floor Jansen "Adagio -Lara Fabian (cover by Floor Jansen)" 😍
Wow! What a wonderful work and, what I imagine, amount of hours of study put in this video!
Thank you very much!
thank you beth for telling us a stories about the facts of a song.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for sharing this!
You are so welcome!
@@BethRoars I very much love history, so I love learning new things (about history).
So thank you for giving me new information!
Thanks once again Beth for another amazing "episode".
Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@BethRoars You're the best! 👏👏👏
"Whales and oysters are making a comeback along with shanties!"
LETS DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN LADS!!!!
we can do the fun sailing, but not the whaling. we need those guys and we don't even use whale fat anymore.
Beth Roars history lesson😁😁😁😁😁
Love your top,,again!
Thanks again!
I enjoy leaning about music history and audio science as much as I enjoy music itself. So I thank you Miss Beth for giving us both. I made my own shanty.
Watch Beth twice a week
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Fridays for music education
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My pleasure!
Very informative! love your accent
Teehee, loved the vid, but hmm, maybe just a small error crept in there. That painting you showed when you mentioned English folk songs, was actually by , Pieter Breugel, The Elder, who was Flemish. And, of course, a lot of sea shanties were VERY rude! Well as you mentioned, sailors were often at sea for a long time, so sexual songs were popular.
This will be an enlightening commentary for those who slept through their classes at school.
😂
Oh, now I won't sleep :) can't wait to see it. Because of course there is no dark side in shanties :) I love shanties from all over the world, but our Polish are the best :) you are doing great job Beth, will watch your channel till you stop uploading, so I hope forever ;)
Hope you enjoy it!
I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett's Privateers.
More of this please. I love history.
Interesting, my grandmother was a Weller. I wonder if they were any relation.
Another interesting video, thanks Beth
Thanks Don!
Historian here. I think you put your skills in didactics to great use here. Especially because the history of music is, in my experience, quite a niche-field and is perceived as not very "attractive" by the general public. Therefore I am glad you made this video. I'd love to see more of this type of content!
Wow, thank you!
@@BethRoars My pleasure! :)
They were really cool sounding in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. 😁
Love it.
The whaling ships treated the crew differently than other ships. They paid the crew a share of the profits, not a fixed wage. Higher or more skilled positions got a larger cut. For much of the trip they were over-staffed, so the work was lighter. When they spotted a whale it got very busy and very dangerous.
Halo a Tiedseir! Missed you live, but wanted to say raar anyway. Have you given any thought to making a video on "Bothan Àirigh am Bràigh Raithneach "? Working on my Gaelic, and with any luck I'll be sounding like an idiot in two languages soon. Tapadh leibh agus Slainte! (Sorry, don't know how to add accents) Raar!
It's cool that the young ones are singing this stuff
Never have I cried in facts to a storylineof reason in my youtuber life.
In the 19th century Russia, a famous poet wrote (I'm paraphrasing) : the British are smart and invent lots of machines to do work, but Russians just pull harder and sing an old working song.
He also famously wrote about men towing river vessels (instead of, say, horses) and singing sad songs. But when his friend, a painter, met these workers who towed boats, and made a painting of them, he saw that they couldn't sing while working, because they had to wear straps across the chest, to pull the boat, and couldn't take a full breath.
Did someone get annoyed with a particular ad that kept popping up before watching their UA-cam videos?
I don't get to see ads! What ad was it?
@@BethRoars the one that begins with there once was a ship that took to sea...
history!
I just come here to hear her talk.
A lot of this is rumours that circulate around. I've been looking into this a lot longer than the current trend. I am very interested where this tattooing and murdering slaves thing comes from? I didn't notice anything in the blogs you posted as your references. It stands out especially because that picture shown depicts a very strange thing indeed - and it just really seems exactly the kind of thing people like to say. Where were these heads going? There was just 'a market' for them I suppose... How strange.
Hey! The original preservation of heads is called Mokomakai. I found quite a few articles on this. Here are a couple: allthatsinteresting.com/mokomokai
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-14/mokomokai-maori-heads-stuff-the-british-stole-repatriations/12771180?nw=0
@@BethRoars Thank you.
i am thankfull that u tried to make the ongoing destructive nature of humans into a happy thing with hope.
Man this was my fav song
Loved it!
Thank you!
you should check out Storm Weather Shanty Choir from Norway. very good live band
Another reaction I am looking forward to. If you want a really different version of a sea shanty. May I suggest 2 young ladies called the Harp Twins. They are identical twins that both play the harp. But the compose and sing music that most people do not associate with the harp. Such as rock and metal songs. Or a sea chanty called The Daemon Lover.
How about "Two girls, one harp"?
@@Baerno They actually perform that way on one of their songs. Check out their Home page videos to see which one. It is a Metallica song I believe.
I would like to hear the entirety of the closing song...if there is one.
The beth dinosaur is so cute :3
Thank you very much. I've learnt a lot.
Thank you!
What an informative video, thank you for doing this eye-opening research and sharing it with us.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Greetings from Portugal, Beth. Would appreciate one of your most dramatic reactions to Avenged Sevenfold - A Little Piece of Heaven - any live version prior to 2009 (year of death of their former drummer) such as Live at the LBC. Cheers
as a sailor myself some of the facts your are say are true but 80% you have just looked up online there are no dark side of of a sea shanties but that is up to your own perception of the words i would say this is a grate vid but the perception of wording is incorrect
Burial At Sea Metal Church! Dark Nautic tale.
At least we can now just enjoy the camaraderie and singing without the horrific work conditions and whale murder.
Right!
Like oh my God is there anything else ancient or historical that I can do while recording Myself so that I can get attention too?!
Hey this is going to be cool thanx for doing this reaction interesting to see it Beth thank you.
Hope you like it!
@@BethRoars thanks so much I am sure I will :)
sea shanty are also Inspired a bit by Irish folk music too not just British it a mix of them together
beth please react to lovebites - when destinies align (live), its a japanese all female power metal band I am sure you will love it
leave her jhonny leave her
I love that song
Anyone who thinks sea shanties are silly clearly have never been out drinking with guys from the navy!
Sometimes you need to know what to do with a drunken sailor
There are many options
Truth accepted. 🙂
Why, you walk them down the plank, of course!
Wait, no, that's actually what you do with a scurvy pirate...
ua-cam.com/video/tjUEyL9hA_4/v-deo.html
Oh yea! A kill joy!
@10:20 I'm not crying- *you're* crying!
🫂
i dont know the spanish equivalent to sea shanties maybe the languaje dont fit the porpouse of coordinate work
Yeah Japan loved the song so much they brought back whailing for the first time in 30 years ....I think it had an opposite effect...lol
Interesting, how we human, are able to romanticize so many aspects of our own terribly convoluted life...
Cheers!
I.
pirates they welcomed everyone
You have somehow completely missed the point of a song that talks about how much they can't wait to leave
Please react to James blunt monsters ,it will tear your heart out
I expect that Stan Rogers' Barrett's Privateers would be a capstan shanty. And Tanglefoot's Traighli Bay is "in the style of" and not an actual shanty.
that is a lovely cow on your wall.
Yes! Finally someone noticed!
The capstsn can be used fore basicly anything. Raising new sails up the masts, geting your whale onboard fore cooking e c t😊