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Traditiones, 2009 This survey paper makes a start at looking, through a series of specific examples, drawn from oral and printed song traditions. This paper looks at the song culture of South West Scotland and the way it relates to that of its near neighbour across the ...
Valentina Bold
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 162-182, April 2020., 2020 This paper investigates the adaptation processes with reference to the narrative analysis of human–environment interactions in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. From the political ecology perspective, it focuses on the discourses of the power relationships embedded within the ‘state‐society‐flood’ nexus over the course of its ‘opening‐up and closing‐off ...
Thong Anh Tran
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Classifications of Macca Oromoo Girls’ Nuptial Songs (Sirba Cidhaa)
Humanities, 2019 Girls’ nuptial songs of the Oromoo of Horn of Africa are powerful folksong genres, but are rarely practiced today. Ethnographic data were collected and analyzed contextually, structurally, functionally, and semantically from multidisciplinary ...
Dereje Fufa Bidu
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Humanities, 2018 This paper presents the values, knowledge and beliefs of the environment that are inscribed in the Oromo folksongs with particular reference to Eastern and Western Hararghe zones of Oromia regional state.
Geremew Chala Teresa, Hunduma Dagim Raga
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Peacock Motifs in Rig Vedic Hymns and Hungarian Folksongs [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 Comparative musicology can link together the musical traditions of distant people. For example, Kodály found interesting melodic similarities between Hungarian and Mari folksongs.
Revesz Peter Z.
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Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education, 2023 This research was conducted to figure out the representation of local styles in Cingcangkeling performance at the international choir festival as a reflection of cultural identity.
Susi Gustina +2 more
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Infrastructure and public works in colonial India: Towards a conceptual history
, 2020 History Compass, Volume 18, Issue 6, June 2020.
Aditya Ramesh, Vidhya Raveendranathan
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The Role of Absolute Pitch Memory in the Oral Transmission of Folksongs
Empirical Musicology Review, 2015 Absolute Pitch (AP) is the ability to identify or produce isolated tones in the absence of contextual cues or reference pitches. While AP is thought to differ from other human abilities in its bimodal distribution (Takeuchi & Hulse, 1993) – either you ...
Merwin Olthof +2 more
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Stichic and Stanzaic Poetic Form in Estonian Tradition and in Europe
Traditiones, 2009 In the current article I am trying to find out why two layers of Estonian song-tradition – one forming part of common Baltic-Finnic heritage and the other belonging together with European rhymed folk-song and ballad tradition – are so remarkably ...
Mari Sarv
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Gender, Marriage and the Elites in India
Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2026.ABSTRACT Scholarship on Indian marriages is vast and interesting, with insights into structural practices and transformations, everyday realities, and maintenance of boundaries and hierarchies of groups. To understand these aspects, studies have focussed on specific caste groups, religious and regional communities, bourgeoning urban areas and emerging ...
Parul Bhandari
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