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FOLKWAYS RECORDS FSS 38405 Sea Music of Many lands: · The Pacific Heritage CANADA, CHILE, CHINA, ENGLAND, IRELAND, JAMAICA, NEW ZEALAND, NORWAY, SAMOA, WEST INDIES, USA. RECORDED Ar THE NATIONAL ~iARITIME r·1USEUM.I SAN FRANCISCO - FESTIVAL OF TI-lE SEA 1980 National Pdrk Service - Golden Gdte ~atlo~al Recreation Area r:ariti,l]e Humanities Center etl' 0 Le At iat i Flowing Strtam Lnsemble Gold Ring Crupo RaLz Dick H) c. tack Stan HU?,ill Jill King Bob \.Jeoo .Jim l"H'Lson ,lhil The mdS Inge Wes8E..ls fou,-MllJud Scluxmrr Nrmh ( hma Junk T01lgm TaJa'mga 17th Cmtury --:! Pacific IslaTld Trading ScJzomu.r Amma'J'I Whalmg sJup DJ 18fD MoJrm hw-MlUud Sud Ikrk FOLKWAYS RECORDS FSS 38405 SEA MUS I C OF ~' I ANY LANDS: ~HE PACIFIC HERITAGE.. S~DE A 1. S~ips Are Sailing/Foxhunters Reel/High keel Goold Ring Ireland 2. Seljefl~yte/Strilevise/N~ttcr¢valse~ Jim Nelson Norway 3. Greenland Boun~ Lou1s Killen England 4. F1afia '0 Lau Loto [etL 0 Le Afiafi (Ev~n n~ ~tur) <dmoa 5. 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JESCR~PTIVE ~C~ES AR~ L~SIJ~ )OCK~T FOLKWAYS RECORDS FSS 38405 FOLKWAYS RECORDS Album No. FSS37405 © 1981 by Folkways Records & Service Corp., 43 West 61st ST., NYC, USA 100232 Sea Music qf Many lands: Ihe Pacific Heritage RECORDED AT THE NATIONAL r14RITI~E MUSElJl, SAN FRANCISCO - FESTIVAL OF THE SEA 1980 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - GoLDEN GATE NATIONAL RECREATION AREA ~~ITIME HUMANITIES CENTER Fetu 0 Le Afiafi Flowing Stream Ensemble Gold Ring Grupo Raiz Dick Holdstock Stan Hugill Jill King Bob Webb Jim Nelson Phil Thomas lnge Wessels C.A. THAYER, National Maritime Museum, San Francisco Site of Festival of the Sea 1980 Photo by Richard Frear popularity with today's revivalists. Fes SEA MUSIC OF MANY LANDS: t·ival of the Sea 1980 was fortunate to have THE PACIFIC HERITAGE Stan Hugill, one of the last of the great With this record the Maritime Humanities shantymen, instruct us as solo on the songs, Center wishes to broaden the conventional for the verses as well as the chorus. notion of sea music. The waters of the -Here are Tongans, who, like their Pacific Ocean have resounded for hundreds neighbors in Oceania, have subsisted on of years with songs by a diverse humanity- the sea since their beginnings. Their peoples from the Americas, Asians, peoples songs and dances reflect universal con from Oceania, and Europeans. They have cerns of the heart and mind, in addition generated ballads, sea shanties, chants, to fishing, one of man's oldest occupations. and other musical forms about a variety of -Men, women, and vessels have been part concerns, from immigration to seafaring to of the interchange between Canada and the fishing and the relationships of lives west coast of the United States for years. profoundly touched by the sea. The Pacific The Canadian experience in timber, mining, Slope has gone through a unique development fishing, and the transpacific trade was historically, and its traditions include not unlike that of our own western states, an exciting variety of races and national differing principally in place-names and origins. The performances herein were the unique cultures of the Pacific North recorded at Festival of the Sea 1980, an west. annual event held at the National Maritime -Here are songs of South America. Chile Museum and Historic Ships in San Francisco. was an important port of call in the 19th The festival attempts to embrace that and early 20th centuries, offering pro marvelous scope of sea music, offering new visions and repairs in the Cape Horn and directions shaped by a genuine multiple coastwise trades. Her merchant and naval heritage of the sea. fleets are of long duration, and her These songs represent a cultural and islands, like others of South America, are historical spectrum, and they sing of wind-swept children of the sea. people who have always been sea-bound, -The complaints about unscrupulous whether Chinese, Irish, Samoan, New Zea "crimps" and boardinghouse masters who lander, English, Scot·, Canadian, Norwegian, exploited seamen mercilessly. San Fran or South American. The history and human cisco, like Liverpool, had its share of experience imparted are both unique and Shanghai Browns and Calico Jims. Abuses universal, for the knowledge we take from against seamen rose in the latter half of these songs not only illuminates particular the 19th century, probably in direct pro situations and peoples, but also other portion to the increase of immigrants in folk regardless of occupations. The sea the forecastle. Whether at sea or ashore, song is a folksong in the finest tradition. immigrants were particularly vulnerable The following is a partial discussion to the greed and cruelty of the age. of the significant relationships to our heritage that are treated in this record: -And here is the music of China, repre senting men and women who labored upon -Norwegians and Swedes represented 35-40 the sea long before Europeans founded per cent of the seafarers on the west coast their own civilization. During the 19th in the 19th and early 20th centuries. and 20th centuries Chinese contributed Especially noteworthy in the coastwise significantly to the maritime development trade, their presen~e generated the some of the west coast, and investigations times affectionate, sometimes perjorative, into that marvelous legacy are still in term, "Scandinavian Navy." progress. Chinese fishermen founded the -Here are two views of whaling, one from abalone and shrimp industries, established New Zealand, about a marginal and little villages along the coast, and Chinese sea known aspect of the industry, while the farers manned ocean liners for more than other grew out of the Scottish experience, forty. years, a major contribution to the surviving after years of variation in the great movement of transpacific steamships. Antarctic trade. Some of the music herein is of known -Two sea shanties originating during the authorship, others are strictly tradition great immigration movement of the 19th al. We hope the listener finds delight century. As work songs, sea shanties had and discovery in all, and joins with us three major strains, Black, Irish, and in celebrating our unique heritage of the English, which explains their remarkable sea. 2 The Maritime Humanities Center, which plans the festival, is partially funded by the National Endowment for the Human ities, and is sponsored by the Fort Mason Foundation in cooperation with Golden Gate National Recreation Area (National Park Service). The Festival of the Sea celebrates ~he past, present, and promise for the future through oral history pan els, panel discussions, concerts, demon strations, workshops, lectures, exhibits, and presentations of sea poetry, prose, plays, and films. The mission of the Center is to explore, articulate, and Flowing Stream Ensemble ~:. share our multiple heritage of th~ sea, and to encourage maritime studies of the west. t:·,·····,···········--···.. · the main source of the Ensemble's reper THE PERFORMERS toire. His guidance has given the Ensem ble's performances authenticity, and the FETU 0 LE AFIAFI (EVENING STAR) - This multi-ethnic membership adds the impor ensemble is from Tonga and has been per tant ingredient of an "American-born spi forming the music from that island, as rit." The members: well as Samoan music, for many years, first in the islands, then in Hawaii, and Leo Lew on kao-wu (lead Cantonese violin) now in San Francisco.