“Taak prappa” by Kathie Birat

“…David Dabydeen’s collection of poems Slave Song (1984) represents the Guyanese poet’s attempt to compensate for the silence surrounding slavery and the absence of a significant body of poetry in Creole. …”
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From hinterland granary fort to frontier mountain fortress: Initiation, construction, and expansion of the Diaoyucheng Fortress, Hechuan, China, in the wars during 1125–1279 by Wen Huang, Jiang Feng

“…The Southern Song planned and constructed the Diaoyucheng Fortress at Hezhou of the Sichuan Theatre, during the 13th century. …”
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De la petite chanson aux rafales du vent : le parcours de la ritournelle dans l’œuvre poétique d’Emily Brontë by Charlotte Borie

“…According to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the ritornello’s first formulation is the little song a child sings to himself to find comfort when alone in the dark. …”
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Egyptian personal piety and Israel's wisdom literature by S. Fischer

“…Hymns and prayers of personal piety developed in the New Kingdom at the same time as “heretic” Harpers’ songs and love songs. The personal piety affected also the genre of instructions. …”
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SCHWARZ BIN ICH UND SCHÖN – RHETORISCHE IRONIE IM HOHELIED1 by S Fischer

“… BLACK AM I AND BEAUTIFUL – RHETORICAL IRONY IN SONG OF SONGS This article argues for an ironic understanding of Song of Songs 1:5-6. …”
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Las canciones del 15-M y su memoria. El sonido de un compromiso político by José Rafael Ramos Barranco

“…In this paper we intend to analyze the role of songs in that movement and, above all, how the ideas of 15-M appear in contemporary Spanish song and through which artists. …”
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Going Through the Motions: American Bodies in Pharrell Williams’s “24 Hours of Happy” by Claude Chastagner

“…The video promoting Pharrell Williams’s 2013 hit “Happy” is unusual: it runs continuously for 24 hours and displays a succession of around 400 people dancing to the song and often singing its lyrics and displaying with their bodies and facial expressions the spirit of happiness that the song epitomizes. …”
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Fondling Breasts and Playing Guitar. Textual and Contextual Expressions of a Sociomusical Conflict in Accra by Tobias Robert Klein

“…Its violation by charismatic churches sparked off a fierce debate on the freedom of worship, in which traditional religion quarrels with Africanised congregations, for whom electric guitars, dances and tongue-speaking form part and parcel of their services. A satirical La Kpa song translates this tension into a socio-(e)motional system of movement, mimics and gestures. …”
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Schon wieder das Lied!. Robert Schumanns »In der Fremde« und die Kriterien musikalischer Analyse by Felix Diergarten

“…Schumann’s Eichendorff songs have been the subject of many musicological studies and musical analyses: Schumann’s interventions in the lyrical text, his musical reactions to the text, the question of cyclicality and non-cyclicality, Schumann’s harmony: all this has been discussed so much that a history of song-analysis can be written on the basis of Schumann-analyses. …”
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Sylvia Plath’s Poetry in Multiple Versions: A Case Study of UK School Anthologies by Julie Blake

“…This paper illustrates how two poems that are commonly featured in school poetry anthologies, Sylvia Plath’s “You’re” and “Morning Song,” encode a historical rationale for their material form in their bibliographic practices. …”
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Poetyka naturalistyczna w literaturze fantasy na przykładzie „Pieśni Lodu i Ognia” George’a R.R. Martina by Joanna Płoszaj

“…This paper presents an analysis of naturalist poetics in the stories and narrative structures of A Song of Ice and Fire. It also focuses on manifestations of naturalism in the depicted world. …”
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Zur produktionsbezogenen Perspektive bei der Analyse von Popmusik by Roland Huschner

“…Analyses that focus exclusively on the sound configurations of pop music tend to ignore the sociocultural processes structuring the song and its sound as well as their potential effect on the song’s reception. …”
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Les lois linguistiques de la brièveté : conformité chez le lémurien chanteur Indri indri by Daria Valente, Chiara De Gregorio, Livio Favaro, Olivier Friard, Longondraza Miaretsoa, Teresa Raimondi, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Valeria Torti, Anna Zanoli, Cristina Giacoma, Marco Gamba

“…Our results indicate that songs conform to both laws. Indeed, shorter phrases are more likely included in the songs, in conformity to Zipf’s law, and unit length decreases with increasing phrase size, in line with Menzerath-Altmann law. …”
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Playing in Tongues: The Hammond Organ and Black Pentecostal Instrumentality by Braxton D. Shelley

“…This “tuning up” achieves on the organ what is enacted by the transition from speech to song in the sermon and through a host of harmonic, metrical, and textural changes in the gospel song. …”
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On the Onset Time of Several SPE/GLE Events: Indications from High-Energy Gamma-Ray and Neutron Measurements by CORONAS-F by Viktoria Kurt, Karel Kudela, Boris Yushkov, Vladimir Galkin

“…We analyzed the high-energy gamma and neutron emissions observed by the SONG instrument onboard the CORONAS-F satellite during August 25, 2001, October 28, 2003, November 4, 2003, and January 20, 2005 solar flares. …”
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Towards Transformation of the Nigerian Youths: The Place of Yoruba Popular Music by Kayode Olusola

“…Relying on Femi Adedeji’s Transformation musicological theory, this work explicates the song themes and other lyrical contents of selected popular music in the Yoruba language fashioned towards positive transformative direction, for the purpose of socio-cultural analysis. …”
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Goal-directed vocal planning in a songbird by Anja T Zai, Anna E Stepien, Nicolas Giret, Richard HR Hahnloser

“…In this deprived state, birds do not recover their baseline song. However, they revert their songs toward the target by about 1 standard deviation of their recent practice, provided the sensory feedback during the latter signaled a pitch mismatch with the target. …”
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La cançon occitana de las annadas 80 : darrièr badalh o buf novèl ? by Eric Fraj

“…During a preparatory seminar to the agrégation langues de France, jointly organised by the universities of Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3 and Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès, on 27 March 2021, Eric Fraj, singer and researcher, revisited the question of the Occitan song during the 70s and 80s. Here is the text of his communication, both a testimony and an analysis of this particular moment.…”
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Odia Ofeimun at 70: The Poet Ages by Toyin Falola

“… To you whose name rattles the tongues of looters and whose verses wrench their hearts, I bring a song of the season. Odia, who among us does not know that before the arrival of thunder there is rain? …”
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‘The Drunkard’s Raggit Wean’: Broadside Culture and the Politics of Temperance Verse by Kirstie Blair

“…This article examines the circulation of a well-known temperance poem and song by Glasgow poet John Crawford, ‘The Drunkard’s Raggit Wean’, considering its function as a broadside and its reprinting in the newspaper press and other venues. …”
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