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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"love songs"”.
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The Labour of Love Songs: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland
This dissertation is about the work of love songs in Hargeysa, Somaliland. In a setting where music and expressions of love are conspicuously absent from public soundscapes, I explore the lives and labour of a genre as it moves and is moved across time and space, the singing and speaking voices …
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Johanna Kinkel’s Lieder Compositions as a Socio-Political and Cultural Mirror of Her Time: A Reflective Interpretation
… findings are the following: Johanna Kinkel’s love songs can be considered autobiographically anchored and thus provide valuable insight into Kinkel’s emotional states of mind. Kinkel’s political settings reflect the socio-political climate of the time; however, they also took an active role in …
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A descriptive analysis of indigenous Xitsonga music dance compound: A musicological approach
… for various reasons. For instance, there are songs for hoeing, weeding, reaping, for children, of mockery, during game, protests, by the fireside interspersed with folktales, love songs and so on. All these songs are immersed in culture-bound indigenous music. The indigenous music and dance of …
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Bodies: Punk, Love and Marxism
This thesis returns love to the purview of Marxism and punk, which had attempted to ban the interpersonal in respective critiques of abstractions. Love-as-sense—as it is figured by Marx— will be distinguished from the love-of-love-songs, and from commodity fetishism and alienation, which relate to …
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The choral cycle : a conductor’s guide to four representative works
… Voices by Stephen Paulus, and Five Hebrew Love Songs by Eric Whitacre. These four cycles demonstrate widely divergent compositional techniques, performing force requirements, and uses of text. As such, they illustrate the wide range of possibilities within this genre. In addition to the …
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Unsayable Somethings: Modern American Poetry, Language, and the Logic of Experience
… 3 illustrates how the speaker in Mina Loy's Love Songs to Joannes (1917) shows that the emergent scientific paradigms of the time shut down not only the possibility for acknowledging intuitions, but also the possibilities for person-to-person intimacy. Chapter 4 argues that in the poetries of …
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An investigation of the satellite poems in Melville's <i>Clarel</i>
… example, introduces bawdy lyrics, a recitative, love songs, hymns, variations of the nursery rhyme and the traditional ballad, chants, a mystical inscription, several boisterous drinking songs, and a dirge.</p> <p>Regarding the larger framework of the poem proper, the satellite poems operate …
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Limassol Carnival Serenades: an approach to sustaining sound communities, safeguarding and cultural sustainability
… the Ionian islands, a Serenade is a harmonised love poem, traditionally sung by men in a waltz rhythm, at a marching or upbeat tempo. Its instrumentation consists of accordions, guitars, and mandolins. Despite their origins as love songs, the Limassol Carnival Serenades serve different purposes …
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Harmony in Discord: An Analysis of Catalan Folk Song
… collections, which contain thousands of songs collected in both France and Spain. All the songs considered here are to be found in books, journals and recordings published between 1852 and 2001. The subject matter and song types are described and categorised, ranging from ballads and love …