The American Sailors Songster

This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.

Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using primary archival material, Mooney argues that the vaudeville stage was an important venue in which an Irish-American identity was constructed, negotiated, and refined.