Sea shanties have survived for centuries, far beyond the golden age of seafaring. A lot of them have strong ties to New England’s maritime culture, especially the culture built around the whaling ...

Like so many words in modern English, there is much debate over where the phrase sea shanty originated. Most folks will tell you that the word shanty comes from the word chant. Claiming they started ...

The sea shanty is having a moment. The old-timey form of maritime music, which experienced its original heyday back in the mid-1800s aboard sailings vessels and fishing boats as well as at shipyards ...

If you’re not already singing along to a bunch of 19th-century songs about whale hunting, then dive into this sea of shanties. British group The Longest Johns helped the digital revival of sea ...

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 ...

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 ...