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the intangible cultural heritage was made in 2009-2010. Similarly, inventories of declaimed or sung poetry, particularly Al-Zajal, were made in 2011-2012, resulting in the creation of a National Intangible Cultural Heritage Register in 2013 and the inscription of Al-Zajal as the first element on this register. At the international level, Al-Zajal d...
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(House of Heritage) in Sharjah; the Zayed Complex for Herbal and Traditional Medicine Research; the Poetry Academy; the Emirates Heritage Club; and Ras AI Khaimah Museum. The inventorying of intangible cultural heritage is undertaken both at the federal and emirate level: there is one federal inventory of intangible cultural heritage, the ‘Nation...
First report of Viet Nam on the status of the element ‘Ca trù singing’
t report of Viet Nam on the status of the element ‘Ca trù singing’,Ca trù is a complex form of sung poetry found in the north of Viet Nam using lyrics written in traditional Vietnamese poetic forms and embodying a range of musical and dance practices, as well as expertise and knowledge of poetry. The varied forms of Ca trù fulfil different s...
cen schools and compiled them into recordings. CNRPAH has over one hundred hours of recordings of written and recited popular poetry from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries and continues to enrich its collection. CNRPAH also has several hundred tape recordings from the 1970s of national heritage music and songs which it is now digitizing....
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d other projects have documented national oral heritage, such as ‘Grandma’s Tales’, Jordanian Bedouin poetry and oral tales from Zarqa City. Related activities also include restoring and digitalising around 1000 old recordings of oral expressions and the ‘National Thesaurus of Jordanian Folklore Heritage’ project to create a database of w...
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pecially true for traditional music, certain knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe, pharmacopeia, poetry-related to hunting and fishing etc., which are threatened because of the vulnerability or absence of the bearers and practitioners. The format is based on the use of a questionnaire prepared in advance in the Kirundi languag...
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vation of alimentary products in the Bizerte region. Furthermore, the field collection of oral expressions (poetry and music) has seen an increased interest since the Centre for Arab and Mediterranean Music was established in 1992. From 2006-2012, several recording activities have been conducted in order to safeguard various forms of musical expres...
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the Sirah among young people is growing. The element continues to be performed in rural areas in prose, poetry and song forms but is now seldom heard in urban centres, except insofar as it is featured in state ceremonies for important international visitors. The epic has also been incorporated into performances for tourists, bringing it to an inter...
acteristics, such as language, specifics of religious and everyday life, clothing, architecture, ritual poetry, and original song chant. 3. The element’s viability is under threat from several factors and State intervention is needed to support and safeguard it. Threats include: loss of native speakers, loss of traditional ways of life, urbanisa...