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The reactions of cell-elements to the doggerel punch of the wave-lengths of sunlight, the foundation of all folk-songs and rag-times.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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Starting a pattern that would last his lifetime, Alan's partners in field were now mostly women, such as the author Zora Neale Hurston, who helped him gain access in black enclaves in Florida, the Bahamas and Haiti, "the richest country for folk-songs I have yet hit," he wrote to his father in 1936.
The Catcher of Songs Eddie Dean 2011
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He notes that “culturally,” Croats and Serbs were “extremely close, sharing (what is linguistically one) language, customs (including folk-songs, traditions, superstitions), moral values, as documented in literature, art, cinema or folk traditions.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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He notes that “culturally,” Croats and Serbs were “extremely close, sharing (what is linguistically one) language, customs (including folk-songs, traditions, superstitions), moral values, as documented in literature, art, cinema or folk traditions.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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During that period Toomer came to understand his racial roots and came to recognize himself in the folk-songs and accents of rural black America.
Jean Toomer [Nathan Eugene Toomer] greenintegerblog 2008
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The indispensable music in these performances was either the plain chant or liturgical melodies or religious folk-songs.
A Palm Sunday Sung Passion bls 2008
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Sognefjord for the purpose of collecting folk-songs and legends.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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The indispensable music in these performances was either the plain chant or liturgical melodies or religious folk-songs.
Archive 2008-03-01 bls 2008
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Sognefjord for the purpose of collecting folk-songs and legends.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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The "How many folksingers does it take to change a light bulb?" page lists snippets of notional folk-songs notionally performed by well-known folkies on the subject of light-bulb changing:
Boing Boing: February 19, 2006 - February 25, 2006 Archives 2006
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