In Popular Media
Appearances of shanties, or songs and melodies labeled as “shanties,” in popular media can be anachronistic and fanciful. In accord with popular perception of shanties as a genre many hundreds of years old, songs with documented existence to only the mid-19th century, at the earliest, have been freely used to portray scenes from the 18th century and earlier. By imagining modern shanties to have been in use during such eras as the Age of Piracy and the French Revolutionary Wars, anachronistic associations have been formed between shanties and “pirates” or the British Navy. Evidence for all these uses and associations can be found in the examples that follow in this section.
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