Word: chants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that night, there was a long moment of silence before the singing of the salve, a traditional song offered at midnight every night to an imagen, a doll-like, elaborately dressed statue ensconced in glass on one side of the bar. With guitar and castanets, two men wailed the chant in praise of and prayer to the Virgin, their voices mixing in harmony and discord, an aching sound similar to flamenco song...
Even players with talent hear the boos until fans are persuaded otherwise. How long did the chant of "Donnie Baseball" ring in Tino Martinez's ears...
They concluded the vigil with a responsive chant in Spanish, accompanied by rythmic clapping...
...audience, establishing reggae as a genre of global reach and lasting import. Today you can hear their influence in the music of the hip-hop group the Fugees, the ska-rock band Sublime and even the Rolling Stones (Stones guitarist Keith Richards has a low-key Rastafarian drum-and-chant album out called Wingless Angels). Marley's career (he died in 1981) was rightly celebrated several years ago by the spectacular four-CD boxed set Songs of Freedom (Island). Now Tosh, who was murdered in 1987, gets the box treatment in the just released three-CD set Honorary Citizen (Legacy...
...instead of fighting the crowds she followed them in protest and chant as one person handed her a "free Tibet flag...