Female Rambling Sailors and other anomalies

[ellenkushner]

A friend of a friend has just sent me an entire CD of authentic historical songs from, as she puts it, "the 200-years tradition of Anglo-American top-hits about women who edressed as men for love and glory at warn and sea (or, to get a salary)." It is Diane Dugaw's _Dangerous Examples: Fighting & Sailing Women in Song_.

Best of all, there's a website with wonderful links to all her source material, including scans of 19c broadsheets, and thoughts on clothing and disguise . . . Highly recommended!

http://server.fhp.uoregon.edu/dtu/sites/warrior/
USER: dtu
PASSWORD: 222hijinx

Why this is of particular interest to me right now, I will reveal in my next posting . . . .

- not now, though, as I have to give a talk tonight at the Revels Salon http://www.revels.org/coming_events/salonbios04-05.htm#kushner on "The Ways Between the Worlds." I have been brushing up on Papa Legba, the Afro-Caribbean trickster god who opens the doors - when he feels like it.

(A few decent sites if you're interested:)

http://www.harvestmoon.net/Vodou/Lwa/Legba/legba.html
http://zer0dmx.tripod.com/gods/legba.html
http://www.techgnosis.com/trickster.html

So Delia is out at the cafe writing, not expected back for another hour - but I just heard the front door open & close.

It is, however, not her.

No one is there.

The door just opened. And closed.

A wonderful thing is research....

Comments

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

I am indeed. The only other person with that birthdate I know personally is supergee.