The Music of the Sea Symposium explores the interaction between sea, music, and song. As an integral part of the annual Sea Music Festival, this two-day collaborative program between Mystic Seaport, the United States Coast Guard Academy and University of Connecticut – Avery Point explores subjects from history and folklore, to literature and ethnomusicology along with many other related topics.

Schedule

• 9 am – Coffee and morning refreshments
• 9:20 am – Welcome, Morning Moderator, Faye Ringel, Professor Emerita, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
• 9:30 am – William Dunlap J.D. Quinnipiac University School of Law: “From Birkenhead to Cherbourg — The Cruise of the Alabama in Lyric, Lore & Law”
• 10:15 am – April Grant Cambridge Historical Tours: “I am the Pirate of the Isles: The Heroic Pirate in Popular songs of the Whaling Era”
• 11 am – Break
• 11:15 am – Paul Mercer, New York State Library, Albany, NY: “Of Dartmoor Prison, I’ll Tell All I Can: The Prison Songbook of Thomas B. Mott, 1814-1815″
• 12 pm – Lunch
• 1:30 pm – Reconvene, Afternoon Moderator, Glenn S. Gordinier, Robert G. Albion Historian
• 1:35 pm – Jon Campbell, Fisherman/Song Writer: “The Astoria Fisher Poets Gathering”
• 2:20 pm – Amanda Daly Berman, Boston University: “Progenitors, Progress, and Preservation: Cultural and Music Connections amongst Cape Breton and its Boston Diaspora”