Seemingly overnight, TikTok and Instagram were inundated with posts celebrating the niche world of maritime sea shanties. The ...

Work songs, musical pieces designed to be performed or sung while working, have been widely documented across various cultures and in different historical periods. For instance, people in different ...

Elsewhere, songs track movement itself: young men leaving with the dry-season wind, rivers in flood separating families. Along cold North Sea coasts, herring workers, known as the "gutters," sang ...

Anusuyabai Pandekar and her daughter-in-law Mandabai sit facing each other beside a stone grindmill. The mill is still. No grain rests between its stones. No flour gathers at the edges. Instead it ...