Although vocables do not have a strict linguistic meaning, singers use them to communicate with and motivate the dancers. |
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Songs with vocables for the lead and with lyrics for the second part are known as intertribals. |
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Many Native American songs employ vocables, syllables that do not have referential meaning. |
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Beyond the vocables, the lyrics of the songs suggest an indigenized form of blues music in that they contain stories of love and loss. |
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Straight songs are often composed of vocables and are used as a warm-up for fancy dancers who dance in a straight upright posture. |
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Great Basin song texts combine words and vocables, employing intricate and subtle imagery that refers to the local environment and natural forces. |
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Without words and almost with the seriousness of asylum nurses they at once set upon an unsavoury-looking matron who began to cry out Mediterranean vocables of distress. |
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