The Travels of ‘John Anderson, my jo’

Bowan, Kate

doi:10.22459/hr.xix.03.2013.05

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“…Lament, supporting collective memory, healing social wounds and reordering relationships (Gillespie & Hoenigman, 2013: 7) by means of music, symbolic activities, movement and text, plays a central social role in the community and thus shares its functionalities with other genres of songs. The sound world of songs can function as a means of establishing, validating, and at times concealing forms of identity (Katsanevaki, 1998 Part B: 33-34, 37, 39, 55-56;Porter, 2013: 1 andin Bowan, 2013), while supporting memory. Many songs can be former laments and every lament can project its functionality to become a song.…”

Section: Mus Ex 16 (Audio)mentioning

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Modern Laments in Northwestern Greece, Their Importance in Social and Musical Life and the “Making” of Oral Tradition

Katsanevaki

2017

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Having as a starting point a typical phrase-"all our songs once were laments"-repeated to the researcher during fieldwork, this study aims to explore the multiple ways in which lament practices become part of other musical practices in community life or change their functionalities and how they contribute to music making. Though the meaning of this typical phrase seems to be inexplicable, nonetheless as a general feeling it is shared by most of the people in the field. Starting from the Epirot instrumental 'moiroloi', extensive field research reveals that many vocal practices considered by former researchers to be imitations of instrumental musical practices, are in fact, definite lament vocal practices-cries, embodied and reformed in different ways in other musical contexts and serving in this way different social purposes. Furthermore, multiple functionalities of lament practices in social life reveal their transformations into songs and the ways they contribute to music making in oral tradition while at the same time confirming the flexibility of the border between lament and song established by previous researchers.

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Section: Mus Ex 16 (Audio)mentioning

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Modern Laments in Northwestern Greece, Their Importance in Social and Musical Life and the “Making” of Oral Tradition

Katsanevaki

2017

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“…Following the Arab defeat, Soviet information media launched a bitter anti-Zionist campaign which, if anything, has intensified in recent months. 71 Afterwards, he commented: "The Jewish religion might be on the decline, but Jewish nationality continues to be a binding force". 68 After 1967, discrimination against the three million Jews living in the USSR further increased.…”

Section: The 1967 War and Its Effect On Soviet Jewrymentioning

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“…The police made no attempt to interfere with the celebration, which apparently lasted until after midnight [...] Observers later put the crowd at 10,000. 71 Afterwards, he commented: "The Jewish religion might be on the decline, but Jewish nationality continues to be a binding force". 72 Already in November 1967, Yuri Andropov, the newly appointed head of the KGB, referred to the Simchat Torah gathering of that year and described it as "an alarming trend", reflecting Soviet concerns about this development.…”

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Australia and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry: 1961–1972

Rutland

2014

Aus J of Politics History

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The plight of Soviet Jewry emerged as a major issue for World Jewry after the Second World War. Both Israel and Jewish Diaspora communities campaigned to give Soviet Jews either freedom of religion or the right to emigrate. The 1960s saw the promotion of the latter, with the slogan “Let My People Go”. Whilst geographically isolated and only being a medium power, the Australian government played a key role, with Australian politicians at times acting against the advice of the public service. The politicians were swayed by idealism, whereas department officials pursued a pragmatic, realist approach, being only concerned with what they saw as Australia's core foreign policy interests.

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The Travels of ‘John Anderson, my jo’

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Modern Laments in Northwestern Greece, Their Importance in Social and Musical Life and the “Making” of Oral Tradition

Modern Laments in Northwestern Greece, Their Importance in Social and Musical Life and the “Making” of Oral Tradition

Australia and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry: 1961–1972

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