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Converses with the Grave: Three Modern Gaelic Laments
Genealogy, 2021 Within Scottish deathways, the Gaelic lament has long served as a poignant and powerful outlet for loss. In this creative piece, three Canadian-born, Gaelic-speaking poets present their previously unpublished Gaelic laments along with English ...
Brian James MacLeod
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Sonifying social-ecological change: A wetland laments agricultural transformation
Ecology and Society, 2018 Art-science approaches are mounting to increase public literacy about sustainability challenges as planet Earth swiftly moves to an uncertain future. We use data sonification, an approach that allows converting scientific data into music, to document ...
Salvador Sánchez-Carrillo +2 more
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Culture & History Digital JournalDrawing on the framework of the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) and Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (FCDA), the present research investigates the discursive strategies and imageries in the bridal laments of the Tujia ethnic group in China.
Jiayu Wang, Yi Zhou
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COMMUNICATING ACROSS THE BORDER: WHAT BURIAL LAMENTS CAN TELL US ABOUT OLD BELIEFS; pp. 130–150 [PDF]
Eesti Arheoloogiaajakiri, 2011 The present article discusses how archaic cultures eliminated their fear of the dead; first and foremost in connection with laments as a folklore genre and lamenting as a ritual practice.
Madis Arukask
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The Metrics of Seto Choral Laments in the Context of Runosong Metrics
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2021 The aim of this paper is to get an overview of the lament metrics in Seto oral song tradition, which belongs to the southern border area of the Finnic song tradition, and the placement and historical development of lament metrics in the framework of the ...
Janika Oras +3 more
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Elegies and Laments in the Nova Scotia Gaelic Song Tradition: Conservatism and Innovation
Genealogy, 2021 Gaelic-speaking emigrants brought with them a massive body of oral tradition, including a rich and varied corpus of song–poetry, and many of the emigrants were themselves highly skilled song-makers. Elegies were a particularly prominent genre that formed
Robert Douglas Dunbar
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A Female Voice for Action in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea
Medievalia, 2022 Although most critical attention on laments for the dead in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea has focused on Pleberio’s long lament for Melibea in Auto XXI, Elicia’s lament for the loss of her lover, Sempronio, his companion, Pármeno, and her ...
Connie L. Scarborough
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Observations on Lutsi oral tradition
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 This article examines Lutsi intangible culture in an attempt to clarify the origins of this language island. Historical stories about coming from “Sweden” refer to southern Estonia, but such stories are also widespread in areas that were never under ...
Kristi Salve
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Patriarchs, Pipers and Presidents: Gaelic Immigrant Funerary Customs and Music in North America
Genealogy, 2020 One of the most moving tributes to the dead is the playing of the Highland bagpipes during funeral services, whether in the church or at the graveside.
Barry Shears
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Approaching Religion, 2023 A new dispute about the ownership of Karelian laments emerged in Finland in 2021. The severely endangered Karelian language is the closest relative of Finnish.
Viliina Silvonen, Kati Kallio
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