An excellent analysis of the Titanic sinking, and the explosion of folk and blues music and folk and popular art commenting [and sometimes rejoicing] upon it, can be found in the book Down with the Old Canoe by Steven Biel.
These are powerful works of art, a relief from 3-D love-boatery.
Some of the great songs inspired by the sinking, mostly not as "sad" as they proclaim themselves to be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USxTunf3-tk
"Down with the old canoe"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5tcr0yHN4&feature=endscreen&NR=1
"The Titanic" by Leadbelly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMxF6Bs0HR0&feature=related
Loretta Lynn-The Titanic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKttDHUv0E&feature=related
Titanic (It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down)
Acoustic Union String Band Tribute to the Folk Tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ulu8bnIBk&feature=related
When That Great Ship Went Down - Woody Guthrie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u61Pj4f6Ucg&feature=related
It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXwNRpPSv1Q&feature=related
It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down version by Roy Acuff
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