The Shared Song
How a Whole Ocean Sings One Tune and Passes It OnBy Rowan Cassidy
Length49m
About this audiobook
A whole ocean sings the same tune. The Shared Song pulls back from the single whale to ask how thousands of them, spread across hundreds of miles of sea, come to sing one ever-changing melody and pass it on. Here are two dialects meeting and borrowing from each other in the rare water where their ranges touch; a chorus of males on the breeding bank, each straining to be heard as himself inside the very song that makes them all sound alike; a melody handed down an unbroken line of singers across decades, none of whom composed it; and a culture carried whole through the silent months when no one sings at all. Four stories, about an hour of listening, about what an ocean of voices can do that no single singer ever could.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Where Two Songs Meet
2The Chorus on the Breeding Ground
3The Song That Outlives the Singer
4The Silence Between the Songs
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