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Combining fieldwork research with textual analysis, this paper investigates the role of traditional Thai folk songs in teaching sexuality and sex education in contemporary Thai society. Although this mode of teaching is not formally included in school curricula, folk songs have easily lent themselves to the role of education and the transmission of cultural values. They are filled with humour, easy to remember, and do not challenge prevailing Thai moral standards. This paper shows how folk songs have long been an important way for Thai people to learn about sexual desire, the functioning of sexual organs, intercourse, sexual behaviour, courtship and reproduction, as well as the roles of husband and wife in marriage. Through a close reading of their musical composition, lyrics and symbols, the paper analyses the double role of folk songs in the transmission of knowledge about sex and the sexual body, as well as strengthening the notion of an essential Thai sense of aesthetics and way of life.

This article presents various negative stereotypes of the Jewish people that appear in Greek folk songs and examines the attitudes of scholars as well when dealing with this particular subject.

In this study, by investigating the subject of Turkish folk songs accompanied by symphony; In the literature review, it was revealed that there is no previous academic study on this subject. It is clear that there should be a written source in addition to the performance regarding this subject, so this article is important in terms of contributing to the literature. Before we talk about symphonic arrangements, we need to have information about the first compilation and recording of Turkish folk songs. Symphonic arrangement of folk songs in Turkey started with the music revolution movement initiated by Atatürk after the foundation of the Republic. For the first time, the arrangements of our folk songs written by Turkish Fives were performed by symphony orchestras. Unfortunately, the symphonic arrangement works, which started to be made thanks to the Turkish Fives, had a long pause. Since the beginning of the 1990s, symphonic Turkish folk song arrangements; It has been reworked and continued by composers such as Turgay Erdener, Oğuzhan Balcı, Yusuf Yalçın, Murat Çelebi and Musa Göçmen. Since the arrangements in the Republican period had a complex harmonic structure, they did not attract much attention from the public. In addition, since the copyrights of many symphonically arranged Turkish folk songs belong to Western countries, the folk songs included in the concert programs remained very limited. Symphonic arrangements of our folk songs; It is of great importance in terms of being performed, announced and promoted both in national and international arenas. Keywords: Turkish Folk Song Collections, Symphonic Folk Songs, Polyphonic Turkish Folk Songs

The export of Indian indentured labour to British oversea colonies containing sugar, cotton and indigo plantations began around mid-nineteenth century. One of the destinations was Fiji, the British island colony in the Pacific, to which the Indian labourers, men and women, mainly went from East UP and West Bihar where Bhojpuri was spoken. While archival documents can help us trace the fortunes of individuals, their own feelings and sentiments are best preserved in their songs orally carried from one mouth to another for decades. The earlier songs contain mournful dirges over separation, the misery of those whom they left behind and their own afflictions in Fiji's harsh white-owned plantations. As the migrations ceased, the Fiji–Indian people's interest shifted to restoring their connection with Hinduism and its customs, and this has become more prominent in later folk songs. The gender problem (women outnumbered by men) was severe earlier but has now eased as with the passage of generations, the sex ratio has normalised.