While the main thrust of CAMSCO Music’s business has been, and will continue to be,
CDs we’ve added a few books to our catalog. Most of these are re-issues of books
we feel are of particular interest to the folk community that had previously been
out of print. We’ll also be listing some that are newer publications that we think
may be of interest. See our other BOOKS
We also have some new CDs that are worth mentioning. This NEW CD page is updated
from time to time.You can see what was NEW a while back by clicking on OCTOBER, DECEMBER,
MARCH or JUNE.
800/548-FOLK <3655> or 609/371-1707
Jolly Sailors Bold, Ballads and Sons of the American Sailor is a major new anthology
of folk songs and parlor songs excavated from nineteenth-century sailor's shipboard
journals. The author-editor-compiler is Stuart M. Frank, senior curator of the world-famous
New Bedford Whaling Museum, executive director emeritus of the Kendall Whaling Museum,
and renowned authority on sailor songs and shipboard music. The product of more than
thirty years of research, this book features authentic, historic renditions of more
than two hundred songs, with texts recovered unchanged from original journals, complete
with tunes. This musical archeology presents us with what is probably the most accurate
picture yet of what seamen (and some landsmen) sang more than a century and a half
ago. A Wealth of historical notes identifies the sources and provenance of the songs,
the composers and lyricists of parlor songs and music-hall pieces, and explains the
technical lingo that characterizes some of the authentic songs made by the mariners
themselves.
Jolly Sailors Bold is CAMSCO Music’s most recent publication. We’re very pleased
and proud to offer it.
Jolly Sailors Bold (Hardcover)
Jolly Sailors Bold (Softcover)
We also have some new CDs that are worth mentioning. This NEW CD page is updated
from time to time.You can see what was NEW a while back by clicking on OCTOBER, DECEMBER,
MARCH or JUNE.
800/548-FOLK <3655> or 609/371-1707
Jolly Sailors Bold (Hardcover)
Jolly Sailors Bold (Softcover)