Songs and Ballads of Dundee - Softcover

This collection of over 70 folk ballads and songs with music reveals the history of Dundee with songs of the men at sea, the clipper fleets and the men of the whaling ships, the jute mills and their work force, the depression of the 1930s and the slum clearance of the 1960s.

These songs and anecdotes and the stories that accompany them convey, as no narrative history can, the energy and character of the people and place that is Dundee. Throughout the songs, there unfolds the story of the men of the sea, the clipper fleets and the men of the whaling ships, the rise and fall of the jute mills and the women who supplied their work-force, and the mass unemployment of the 30s as well as a host of great characters. In print again, this is a marvelous and unique picture of the life and times of one of Scotland's most colorful and distinctive communities.