Des voix joyeuses : dire le joi chez les troubadours du xie au xiiie siècle by Emma Coutier

“…The aim is to show that, far from being reduced to a “cliché”, joi is also, sometimes a percept at the origin of the song, sometimes an affect that accompanies the song in its eternal movements ; in any case, joi engages a subjectivity, closely correlated to the spontaneous, sensitive and performative mode of expression that is the voice. …”
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‘The Apex of Hipster XML GeekDOM’ by Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, Hefeng (Eddie) Wen, Cara Leitch, Dot Porter, Liam Sherriff, Karin Armstrong, Melanie Chernyk

“…At the heart of the experiment was a Bob Dylan song and its associated video which incorporated text; encoded text was overlaid and the video was posted to YouTube and a blog with links to the TEI website with analysis of traffic patterns carried out.…”
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The Ka’ulayawaa festivals among the Wayùu. Exploring continuities and variations in forms, meanings and contexts through ethnographic sources by Alessandro Mancuso

“…For their peculiar mix of songs, dances, imitative plays and competitive games, inserted into a same festive framework, these festivals are particularly interesting to be studied as expressive metacommentaries (in the sense of Turner) of Wayùu social structures, cultural values and worldview. …”
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Engagements étudiants en Algérie post-22 février. Sociohistoire d’un mouvement « désenchanté » by Siham Beddoubia

“…Firstly, national history was a unifying element: the students seemed to want to take part in writing the national novel; they drew on the rhetoric of memories and history through slogans, songs linked to the national movement and symbols of the war of national liberation. …”
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