Word: chantes
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...This nation will not live in fear," Bush said. "We have awakened to a new danger and our resolve is strong." A plane roared overhead, and Bush smiled. The crowd, which had been giving Bush party-faithful-style applause for his every line, broke into a chant...
...victims of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. The Iranians - mostly young and middle class - held candles in the air and defiantly sang Iran's pre-revolutionary anthem as Mirdamad Street flickered in a sea of candlelight. Then, emboldened by growing numbers, they began to chant, "Marg bar terrorist (Death to terrorists...
...vehicle—ambassadorial style. Drunk men peer out of its darkened windows, waving 40s of malt liquor in hand and yelling, “Go America! Go America! Go America!” All the party people, standing on a sidewalk still wet from rain, reward this chant with a tipsy round of applause...
...mostly young people already enamored with the benefits of pot, and looking to celebrate a bright sunny day by firing up a bowl on Boston Common. Still, among the mix were plenty of pro-pot politicians, attempting to rake in some political capital from the event, including the incessant chant from the Green Party table, “If you smoke green, you should vote Green...
...challenge to non-Western cultures everywhere to become global without being globalized, to step on the world playing field without being ground into it. In today's global music, musical boundary hopping is often integral to a political message, as when Haiti's Boukman Eksperyans sets a Creole antiwar chant to the tune of Kyu Sakamoto's 1963 single Sukiyaki, an American chart topper by way of Japan. (For Bookman, even singing in Creole--which has periodically been outlawed in Haiti--is a political act.) Protest singers in Africa and the Caribbean have long preached a musical and lyrical...