Jazzbanjorex
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I've wanted to do this song for such a long time now.
I've wanted to do this song for such a long time now.
Sorry to be a pain, but can I also gauge people's opinions on whether sea shanties count as folk music. One of my favourite songs is by a modern group, but done in the style of a sea shanty...
Sea shanties absolutely do count as folk music and there's a few people who have written songs based on the format. It's likely that the call and response format came from African slaves in the Carribean and Southern USA, though a similar format can be found in the "waulking" songs of the Hebridean Islands of Western Scotland.