Sea shanties are cool, and so are union work songs

if you like sea shanties… can I tell you about union work songs? pic.twitter.com/gFEDbJPnB6

— Alex de Campi (@alexdecampi) January 15, 2021

Sea shanties (and other sea songs) are all the rage on TikTok right now. The sentiments of these often plaintive songs of hard labor, love, longing, and loss seem to have found a resonance in our collective psyche. — Read the rest