Hozier

I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a bit of time in choirs growing up, and in the world-touring music group, Anuna. It's a sound with very rich texture, voices singing together.

Irish Musician

Rory O'Malley

My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who arrived after the Famine. They settled along the Cuyahoga River. It's the river that caught on fire. We're real good at picking real estate.

American Actor

W. Bruce Cameron

An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.

American Author

Maxine Peake

I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs, sea shanties, and English folklore.

English Actress

I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties.

Brian McDermott

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

English Athlete

Implies extreme poverty and inadequate living conditions.

Poverty Indicator

Often associated with slums in historical or cultural contexts.

Cultural Depiction

Used for makeshift or temporary housing solutions.

Temporary Nature

Traditionally a sailors' song to synchronize group tasks.

Maritime Tradition

Meant to create a rhythm for work, often with a call-and-response structure.

Rhythmic Purpose

Sea shanties have experienced a revival as cultural, historic songs.

Cultural Revival

 And then they match her mortgage to what she paid in rent for her little shanty. And in the next couple of weeks, she's going to be among the first 200 families to move into this development. When I asked her if she feared anything, or whether she would miss anything from Mathare,

Jacqueline Novogratz on...

 years might be sharing the idea that keeps the world beautiful for your grandchildren it's not crazy it's actually happening right now want to introduce you to a good friend of Ted who just happens to live in Africa's biggest shanty town hi my name is

Chris Anderson: How...

 'you can stay for the rest of your life.'" So, he has hope, and this is where these communities start. This is perhaps the most primitive shanty that you can find in Kibera, little more than a stick-and-mud hut next to a garbage heap.

Robert Neuwirth: The...

 is speculative and it's fantastic coal and it's about world building but still grounded in a lot of contemporary issues a project that I've been working on recently that is going to be ongoing it's my shanty megastructures for Lagos

Art and architecture...

 So I did. And how I set about that, I got some splinters of wood. And I sliced the little splinters of wood with a broken shard of glass, constructed this little apartment. Well it looked like a little shanty shed when I'd finished.

Willard Wigan: Hold your...

 when fresh water was a rare commodity and rum was the drink of choice things were bound to get a little wild drunk pirates need to be entertained so many pirate ships had full time bands to play shanties and even had theaters on

Five Pirate Myths That...

 After all, what is a slum besides an organic response to acute housing deficits and income inequality? And what is a shanty if not a person making a home for themselves against all odds? Slums are an imperfect housing solution,

Who belongs in a city? PIPE...

 Pachacamac is a huge archaeological site south of Lima. Around it we have three million people living in shanty towns, in one of the poorest sectors of Lima,

How Scientists and...

 that chair is a song to an enemy but it's not that why is it a song to our enemy what you see behind in the fixes those are the ancient a shanty gold with

Context determines...

 it was like hectic everywhere in the mountains you can see these shanty houses that was just horrendous I've not seen that in my life and I thought

Shanty