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In Red Dead Redemption 2 the character Simon Pearson, a former sailor, will sing the sea shanty "Homeward Bound" at the campsite while playing a concertina. [195] In Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, if the player's ship crew have a high morale score, sea shanties will be played while the player travels around the game's overworld. [196]
English folk music has produced or contributed to several cultural phenomena, including sea shanties, jigs, hornpipes and the music for Morris dancing. It has also interacted with other musical traditions, particularly classical and rock music , influencing musical styles and producing musical fusions , such as British folk rock , folk punk and ...
Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys is a compilation album of sea shanties produced by Hal Wilner.Songs are performed by artists representing a variety of genres, ranging from pop musicians like Sting, Bono, Jarvis Cocker, Lou Reed, Nick Cave and Bryan Ferry, to actors like John C. Reilly, to folk musicians like Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III and Martin Carthy.
British group The Longest Johns helped the digital revival of sea shanties with a 2018 recording of "Soon May the Wellerman Come,’ which has since seen nearly 30 million streams on YouTube and ...
The term "sea songs" may also be used to refer to any songs about or concerned with ships and seafarers. Such songs (including sea shanties and other work songs) are most commonly classed as folk music and are a major feature of maritime festivals held at seaports (and some river-ports) around the UK. Incipit of "Princess Royal"
She has combined jazz and English sea shanties with Cape Verdean rhythms - including the funaná, played on an iron rod with a knife and the accordion, and the batuque, played by women and based ...
The Music of the Waters: A collection of the sailors' chanties, or working songs of the sea, of all maritime nations. Boatmen's, fishermen's, and rowing songs, and water legends Laura Alexandrine Smith (1861–1902) [ 1 ] was an English musician, [ 2 ] ethnomusicologist [ 3 ] and one of the earliest collectors of sea shanties. [ 4 ]
"South Australia" (Roud 325) is a sea shanty and folk song, also known under such titles as "Rolling King" and "Bound for South Australia".As an original worksong it was sung in a variety of trades, including being used by the wool and later the wheat traders who worked the clipper ships between Australian ports and London.