Sea shanties fueled the spirits of sailors and boat workers for hundreds of years. Now, they're a social media sensation. The songs were work-oriented, helping sailors coordinate tasks that required ...

When I woke up last Friday morning, I realized I had several messages. All of them were links to a TikTok video of several guys singing a song, a sea shanty from the 19th century called “Wellerman,” ...

To get to the bottom of the mystery, we reached out to the singers themselves and a sea shanty expert (yes, you read that correctly), who said there's actually a few different reasons why the work ...

In a year of surprises, one of the more pleasant was the recent runaway viral popularity of 19th century sea shanties on TikTok. A collaborative global response to pandemic isolation, it saw singers ...

Amid the global media coverage of the pandemic and Donald Trump’s final days as US president, an unexpected music genre went viral on TikTok:traditional sea shanties, spurring what has become known as ...