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  2. Protest song - Wikipedia

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    Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison, in Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Tradition in the Twentieth Century (1998), take issue with what they consider Denisoff's reductive approach to the history and function of song (and particularly traditional song) in social movements. They point out that Denisoff had paid little attention to the song ...

  3. Folk music - Wikipedia

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    Folk songs are categorized by geographic region, language type, ethnicity, social function (e.g. work song, ritual song, courting song) and musical type. Modern anthologies collected by Chinese folklorists distinguish between traditional songs, revolutionary songs, and newly invented songs. [ 137 ]

  4. Animal song - Wikipedia

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    Chaffinches raised in social isolation develop abnormal songs, however playing recordings of chaffinch songs allows the young birds to learn their species-specific songs. [31] Song learning generally involves a sensitive learning period in early life, during which young birds must be exposed to song from tutor animals in order to develop normal ...

  5. Psychology of music preference - Wikipedia

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    The psychology of music preference is the study of the psychological factors behind peoples' different music preferences. One study found that after researching through studies from the past 50 years, there are more than 500 functions for music. [1]

  6. Work song - Wikipedia

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    Records of work songs are as old as historical records, and anthropological evidence suggests that most agrarian societies tend to have them. [1]When defining work songs, most modern commentators include songs that are sung while working, as well as songs that are about work or have work as the main subject, since the two categories are often interconnected. [2]

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    A woman holds up a portrait of rapper Toomaj Salehi during a demonstration against repression in Iran on January 8, 2023 in Lyon, France. (Photo by Robert Deyrail/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

  8. Music - Wikipedia

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    A round, which is a song such as "Row, Row, Row Your Boat", which different groups of singers all start to sing at a different time, is an example of polyphony. homophony: a clear melody supported by chordal accompaniment. Most Western popular music songs from the 19th century onward are written in this texture.

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