A Voice Like Thunder: Corsican Women's Lament as Cultural Work
Funeral rites are commonly understood as a means by which communities reestablish normal or ideal social relationships following death. Lament, which has played a prominent role in such rites, has been studied in numer-ous cultural and historical contexts as a practice that is effective on both a p...
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Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2004-09-01
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Series: | Current Musicology |
Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5043 |