Comments on: Map Songs: Wire’s Map Ref. 41° N 93° W

By: Paul Crookall

Paul Crookall — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:30:05 +0000

On one of my forthcoming releases ²3 (two cubed, i.e. ’08) and its follow-up, 3² (’09) will be the track 54’45″N 04’00″W, subtitled 14th June 1939. This orchestral piece involves 60 seconds of silence. From these clues you should be able to glean its reference to a tragedy just prior to WWII from which my grandfather was saved by the accident of his height.

The two-part collection is a 64 piece set of musical references encompassing the history of Liverpool, its people and its environs from the beginning (Berêshîth) through to the 750th anniversary of its charter (1207 – 2007).

Paul Crookall, composer, Liverpool UK, 23rd August 2008.

By: John Krygier

John Krygier — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:39:43 +0000

41° N 93° W is here.

By: Silent 3

Silent 3 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:58:24 +0000

Yeah i’ve heard the slave song ‘follow the drinking gourd’ is an instruction to escaping slaves to head north at night by heading in the same direction as the big dipper

so does anybody know where 41° N 93° W” is located?
Iowa ???

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:33:53 +0000

The true “Map Songs” were sung by slaves to communicate to each other about pending escape from the plantations. Check this link for more info:
http://ctl.du.edu/spirituals/Freedom/coded.cfm