Jour. American Folklore, 2009, vol. 122 no. 484, pp. 197-217.
New Sea Chantey Compilations on Compact Disc, James Revell Carr, UNC Greensboro.

A few extracts, but here is the introductory paragraph to this overly long review:
"Recently a pirate-oriented fan subculture fueled by Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean movie series has been growing across the United States. With it, a great many musical groups have begun performing sea chanteys and sailor songs in both traditional and innovative arrangements, inventing new genres like "pirate rock."
The heavily synergistic Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has lent its imagery to everything from breakfast cereal to pinball machines, so it was not surprising when a collection of sea songs was recently issued under the Pirates brand name." .....
Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys 2006.
..."uneven and anachronistic"...fascinating example of semi-obscure folk material interpreted by contemporary singers for the mass market." ....liner notes- "a totally unexplored kind of folk music."

Carr rebuts this with examples, American Sea Songs and Shanties 2004 Archive Folk Culture, and Classic Maritime Music (2004) Smithsonian Folkways. Recordings- "provide evidence that sea music was, in fact, well-explored in the late twentieth century."
Skipping over discussion of Hugill, the chanteyman's craft, types of chanteys, and detailed discussion and listing of material on the two collections cited above-
Rogue's Gallery: ..."interesting, if puzzling group of singers"... who came to the project not because they were known for their sea chantey singing but because they knew producer Hal Wilner or Johnny Depp."
Two CDs and 42 tracks to the set- "seems a bit bloated." "These recordings use acoustic instruments, stick closely to original melodies but incorporate a funky rhythmic feel and a folk-rock vocal style...Phillip Morgan helped organize the Seattle sessions, contributes banjo and tin whistle ...wrote the annotations for the collection."
Featured are Sting and Bono. The Carthy Family is well-represented: "The Mermaid" and "The Hog-Eye Man." Loudon Wainwright III sings "Turkish Revelry" and "Good Ship Venus." Nick Cave sings "Fire Down Below;" he "emphasizes one twelve-letter obscenity...that is not only anachronistic...but not found in even the unexpurgated versions of the text- gives the listener the sense that he is trying too hard to shock."
Some of the chanteys are orchestrated in new ways.
Notes [from the article]
Spelling of chantey- "marginally more common in American sailors' journals and other writings."
Carr recommends Stuart M. Frank, 1998, Book of Pirate Songs, Kendall Whaling Museum, and says his major monograph on sea music has yet to be published.
Women are not ignored, Cindy Kallet, Celeste Bernardo and the Johnson Girls.
Books by Laura Alexandrine Smith and Joanna Colcord are mentioned, but Cicely Fox Smith is ignored.

Carr prints an "Audiography," which includes Almanac Singers (1941, Lomax), Mystic Seaport Chanteymen (1997) and other Mystic offerings, Folkways records and Topic Records Compilations.