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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 108–119.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., but…I want to visit my family back there once I get my passport renewed. I’ve already talked to the consulate. But only for awhile, then I’ll come back. Here in Brazil, I’m getting everything,” he nods firmly. Not every note is perfectly pitched in an immigrant’s song. ...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 7–12.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., for example, expelled Malema from the party at the end of February. He had given the ANC many other reasons to discipline him, including personal corruption and his public criticisms of President Jacob Zuma. But the song, too, had embarrassed the ANC leadership. When Kenyan politicians give inflammatory...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 35–39.
Published: 01 March 2018
... is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence in New Jersey. In his song, Protoje is outside looking in, waiting as the city remains under lockdown: When the city a go click-clack-blow, you bet Government fingers and tic-tac-toes in it And while they working on the X’s and O’s I’m living I-N-I like I’m...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 79–86.
Published: 01 December 2013
... from Armada Bizerta, others with different artists whose beats he has produced. He rocks heavily from side to side with every song, rapping along with the lyrics when he knows them. A riff on the classic inner-city track from Bronx rapper KRS-One, Armada Bizerte’s song “It’s The Sound Of Da Police...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (1): 96–101.
Published: 01 March 2004
...-Freiberga. Massed houses the Latvian Occupation Museum. outside, they sang a protest song, to the The building’s symbolic meaning has been tune of Pink Floyd’s classic, “Another Brick reshaped by the changing political tides: in the Wall”: “Don’t you be such fools, keep originally sheathed...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 85–96.
Published: 01 December 2014
... to talk in the presence of the banderovtsy. The guards taped him up as well. The following days, Anatoly was asked to sing other songs. One guard made a request that he sing a mournful 19th century Ukrainian folk song: “What a Moon There is on This Night.” The room fell silent as Anatoly sang...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 59–67.
Published: 01 June 2012
... country, which includes Turkish language classes and a revised history that glorifies the Ottoman Empire, is the first of the refugee community’s potential new roots. At school, students rehearse songs from a play about Syria they are set to perform in one month. “They sing songs for the revolution...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 39–44.
Published: 01 September 2016
... other songs, she was to receive a third part of the receipts. When counted, her share was found to consist of three pigs, 23 turkeys, 44 chickens, 5,000 cocoa-nuts, besides considerable quantities of bananas, lemons, and oranges. At the Halle in Paris, as the prima donna remarks in her lively letter...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 69–76.
Published: 01 March 2003
... on intellectual principles, a critical examination writers and artists, never went to the ex­ of the past goes on. In January, a haunting tremes other regimes did to obliterate— to new film, Song of the Stork, opened in Hanoi. shoot— the intellectual past. There was not, The film, due to be released in art...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 62–69.
Published: 01 June 2004
...-Tutsi did not mean to tell his audience to kill songs, which were broadcast constantly on Tutsi, and could not have foreseen that RTLM, were reportedly one of the reasons for they would understand him that way, if the station’s vast popularity, especially they did. “[T]here is nothing...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 30–37.
Published: 01 March 2016
... is right? And that night at Wits, members of the university’s student representative council (SRC) of past and present stood at the front leading the students in song and dance. They were, at first blush, the cooks serving up ideas and instructions to students. Four figures—Shaeera Kalla, Vuyani Pambo...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 105–114.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... After a long week of work, for those fortunate enough to have jobs in a Spain in the midst of an economic crisis, it is hardly surprising there are few in attendance. But as the faithful take turns sharing their testimony and leading the group in song, their ranks begin to swell. In a few hours, dozens...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 67–73.
Published: 01 June 2005
... guaranteed; only by this means name will rise and take its glorious place in could Russia regain its international pres­ history.”3 Molotov was right: in addition to tige. We are, in fact, eager to sing Putin’s a recent spate of proposals to erect monu­ praises—a hit pop song goes, “I want one ments...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 62–75.
Published: 01 December 2017
.... I also saw how the Water Protectors sang songs and held space for each other even a’er some had been seriously harmed. ‹at night one person lost an eye a’er getting hit by a rubber bullet, and a young woman almost lost her arm to a percussion grenade. I lost my camera to wa- ter damage...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 30–34.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Colón on his second voyage to the Americas, documented Taíno songs, origin stories, and the religious practice of carving elaborate figures to honor deities. The European colonizers also encountered another group of Indigenous peoples early on, mainly in the Lesser Antillean region. They were known...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 9–12.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Hasanov, for example, was persecuted for merely writing a song called “There was a massacre in Andijon,” and citizens were arrested for playing it. But in order to truly direct the narrative, the Uzbek government needed more than just censorship. They needed a scapegoat. And that is how the invented...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 26–36.
Published: 01 December 2015
... adieus. “Now I am emigrating.” There is singing in the next room. On the other side of a closed door, a group of women in their early 20s break into song. “So that she may never leave!” they repeat, joining Marc Anthony. In the song, called “Flor Pálida,” Anthony tells the story of a flower he finds...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 22–34.
Published: 01 September 2011
... as home to many of the most influential Finnish companies in three key sectors. In information technology, the area houses both Nokia and start-ups such as Rovio, creator of the hit Angry Birds iPhone game. Yes, Finns are to blame for the iconic songs of the information age. Nokia has sold a third...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 85–88.
Published: 01 December 2003
... by the sinews of many aliens from the earth’s four quarters. And they took with them also their alien culture, their music and their songs, their languages and their literature, their books and their Bibles and their cookery, their piety and their passions...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 37–47.
Published: 01 December 2003
... skinhead m ili­ percent in December, as “Der Steuersong” tants who attract far more media attention (The tax song) topped the charts. In the par­ than their influence warrants, mustered ody of Schroeder, set to the tune of the pop barely 2 percent of the vote. The socialist hit...