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Trajectories of Treasured Texts: Laments as Narratives

Storytelling as Narrative Practice, 2019
The present chapter examines lament as a lens on the intersections between narrative, affect, and culture. Laments form an integral part of mourning rituals, and they are also attested in a range of ordinary contexts associated with work and leisure ...
K. Giaxoglou
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The funeral laments (pohrebné plače) of the Slovak community in Serbia [PDF]

Muzikologija
This study discusses the funeral laments (pohrebné plače or pohrebné nariekanie in Slovak) of the Slovak ethnic minority in Srem, Vojvodina, Repub­lic of Serbia.
Lomen Kristina
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From Lament to Lamenting Song: Musical Models, Meanings and Expression in Seto Solo and Choral Funeral Laments [PDF]

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
The distinctive ancient culture of the Seto (south-eastern Estonia) is of special interest, among other things, for its rich lament tradition which survived until the recent past. Unlike the laments of other Balto-Finnic peoples, which are an exclusively
Pärtlas Žanna
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The Vlach funeral laments: Tradition revisited [PDF]

Balcanica, 2004
In the present study I have analyzed three Vlach funeral laments audio-recorded in 2004, during the fieldtrip to Valakonje, near Boljevac Serbia. I have taken into discussion the dynamics of the Vlach community and its present state, with the coexistence
Sorescu-Marinković Annemarie
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Performing Grief: Bridal Laments in Rural China

, 2008
This is the first in-depth study of Chinese bridal laments, a ritual and performative art practiced by Chinese women in premodern times that gave them a rare opportunity to voice their grievances publicly.
A. McLaren
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Dances and Laments

, 2013
Dances & Laments Original compositions by Peter Fribbins CD, Guild Music ...
Fribbins, P.
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Maniat Laments as Narratives: Forms and Norms of Entextualization [PDF]

, 2008
This thesis studies Maniat laments as narratives in folkloristic contexts. It focuses on a manuscript collection of Maniat laments which was compiled around 1930-35 by Ioannis Strilakos (a philologist from Gerolimenas, 1911-1949); it also draws on data ...
Giaxoglou, (Kyriaki) Korina
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L’Affaire Redureau, le crime de Bas-Briacé (1913) : Un meurtrier de 15 ans au cœur des complaintes

Criminocorpus, 2021
The Redureau Affair depicts a 15-year-old criminal who executed his winegrowing boss in Brittany and 6 other members of the family on the night of 30 September 1913.
Sophie Victorien, Pierre Guillard
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“Laments Are Made by Life and Pain”: Ethnographic Interviews as a Context for Performing Greek Death Laments

Traditiones, 2023
This article investigates how death laments were constructed by their performers as a genre and acquired their meaning through ethnographic interviews conducted in three Greek mountain villages in 2017.
Riikka Patrikainen
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Lament during the Pandemic

New Chaucer Studies, 2021
A personal essay about reading Old English laments during a global pandemic.
Kathy Cawsey
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