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    goan music

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    left behind. The common civil code‚ confers equal status to all religions‚ it favours no particular religion. The law also accords equal legal status to both sexes‚ in all matters. Goa’s rich cultural heritage comprises of dances‚ folk songs‚ visual arts‚ music and folk tales rich in content and variety. Goan are born music lovers‚ most Goans can pluck at a guitar or pick out a tune on the piano. Goans are very proud of their state‚ and are well prepared to fight for its protection. Environmental

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    Music in My Life

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    music isn’t only a combination of pleasant sounds. There are a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them appeared long ago‚ and some are modern. For example‚ folk music appeared long ago‚ but it is still alive. There are many local performers‚ choirs and folk groups in Russia; but perhaps the most famous singer is Nadezhda Babkina. Folk songs are very tuneful and pleasant to listen to. Classical music is often associated with the music of the past. However‚ this style also includes music being

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    traditions in music - Vietnamese lullaby songs: are sorts of folk music often heard in Vietnam‚ epescially in the country side. They use not only to lull small children to sleep also to express human feelings e.g. homesickness - Quan Ho Bac Ninh: are a folk song that is a rich and beautiful storehouse of the people and has a long lasting history. During all its existence successful creations have unceasingly changed the type of folk song and therefore this remains untouched and traditional.

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    Ideas/Background: Bob Dylan is an American folk rock musician who influentially utilised poetry and current social themes in his music to create an impact. The song ‘Hurricane’‚ released in 1976‚ is one of his most famous songs. It discusses racism‚ racial injustice and corruption through the incorrect trial and murder conviction of African-American male Rubin Carter‚ an issue relevant to its time of release. Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He delivered

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    world that’s coming along. Seems sick and it’s hungry‚ it’s tired and it’s torn‚ it looks like it’s dying and it’s hardly been born."<br><br>After he graduated high school in the early 1959 Dylan found himself playing folk music. This is also the time he began to write his legendary folk songs. In the 1960s Bob Dylan had turned the themes of his music to protest what many people consider the wrongs of society. In his songs he writes about the "luckless‚ the abandoned and’ forsaken‚" as he put it in

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    Provencal influence in the folk music played at festivals in the northern part of the country‚ as well as the rock and jazz most prevalent in the larger cities. An additional element is added by a wealth of singer-songwriters‚ most of whom spawned from the extremely political ’New Song’ movement. This movement began rolling during the 1970’s when the country threw off a thirty year dictatorship under Salazar‚ and was forced to withdraw from its colonies. In Portuguese folk music‚ there are a wide

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    Lohri

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    fertility. At night‚ people gather around the bonfire and throw til‚ puffed rice &amp; popcorns into the flames of the bonfire. Prayers are offered to the bonfire seeking abundance &amp; prosperity. People make merry by dancing &amp; singing traditional folk songs. The origin of the Lohri can be traced back to the tale of Dulla Bhatti. By the end of the first week of January‚ small groups of boys ring the doorbell of houses and start chanting the Lohri songs related to Dulla Bhatti. In turn‚ the people

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    drowned herself in the river because of an unfaithful lover. Heine’s poem‚ based on this legend‚ first appeared in his most famous volume‚ the ‘Book of Songs’. Like much of his early verse‚ it was influenced by the Romantic writers’ fascination with folk songs. The poem deals with the theme of unrequited love. While reading it we are lulled into a false sense of security. The outstanding feature of this poem is the turn‚ i.e. ironic twist‚ which concludes it. ‘The Lorelei’ has been set to music by

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    Tausug Folk Literature

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    “sulug” or “sug” which means “ocean current” and the name Jolo is the Spanish word for corruption. Tausug literature is very rich. It includes prose‚ poems‚ narrative and nonnarative forms. The content of their literatures are classified into two: folk literatures that are closely related to the life of indigenous people and second is Islamic which is based in Quran or from Hadith (sayings) and Sunna (traditions and practices) of the prophet Muhammad. Tausug ver owns “ tigum-tigum” are either

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    4. Protest songs 4.1. Global concerns: Bob Dylan‚ Joan Baez‚ Fasia Jansen Joan Baez has commonly been described as the ‘voice and conscience of the 60s’ as she achieved international recognition with her activism‚ her political engagement and her music as a means of voicing her protest and of making herself heard all across the globe beyond the borders of America. In her protest music‚ references to the American civil rights movement‚ thus to national mass concerns of the era‚ play a significant

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