Chanty Muzak

On sea shanties, working music, and transatlantic class struggle

I still don’t quite know how things that are, and have been so for some time, suddenly break through the surface of collective consciousness to become again. Work-songs have existed for probably as long as work, sea shanties, probably for 200 years or so, Twitter for 14, TikTok for four. Yet it was only in the past week or two that the rupture emerged; …