"Soon may the Wellerman come! / To bring us sugar and tea and rum!" (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Last week James Revell Carr, an ethnomusicology professor at the University of Kentucky and a scholar on ...
From Wellerman to Drunken Sailor, sea shanties are attracting the attention of landlubber TikTokers. "It went wild. I don't really know what happened," says the guy at the center of it all. Erin ...
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 ...
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