Title
Maritime Culture: the History, the Music, and Confronting the Gender Divide / One and the Same
Document Type
Honors
Rights Management
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Abstract
This Honors Project examines the presence and results of the gender divide in maritime culture through a research paper focusing on maritime history in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, as well as a song cycle, "One and the Same" for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra utilizing a popular belief of the time regarding women and superstition to construct a narrative. This paper analyzes historical sources and sea shanties to observe how women have been represented in maritime history and culture
Recommended Citation
Hopper, Edward Isaiah, "Maritime Culture: the History, the Music, and Confronting the Gender Divide / One and the Same" (2021). Honors Projects Overview. 198.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/honors_projects/198
Audio recording.
