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ShantyTok: is the sugar and rum line in Wellerman a reference to slavery?

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par Adrian York, Senior Lecturer in Commercial Music Performance, University of Westminster

Amid the global media coverage of the pandemic and Donald Trump’s final days as US president, an unexpected music genre went viral on TikTok: traditional sea shanties, spurring what has become known as the “ShantyTok” phenomenon.

Global interest in ShantyTok began when a postman called Nathan Evans, who lives near Glasgow in Scotland, posted a video on TikTok of…

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