He probably performed his verses at drinking parties for friends and political allies — men for whom loyalty was essential, particularly in such troubled times.

The public opinion of voters was remarkably influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theatres.

Even rarer are cases where self-amputation is performed for criminal or political purposes:

He performed his rap lyrics to music as a ' Wordsmith ', with his writing containing a powerful political message.

Says Hahnel, " Combined with a more democratic political system, and redone to closer approximate a best case version, centrally planned economies no doubt would have performed better.

This principle holds that no larger unit ( whether social, economic, or political ) should perform a function which can be performed by a smaller unit.

Since Hite performed her study during the popularity of feminism in the 1970s, she also acknowledged that women may have chosen the political identity of a lesbian.

The most notable difference, according to Dana F. Sutton is that New Comedy, in comparison to Old Comedy, is “ devoid of a serious political, social or intellectual content ” and “ could be performed in any number of social and political settings without risk of giving offense ”.

In Classical times, many of the great thinkers and political leaders performed their works before an audience, usually in the context of a competition or contest for fame, political influence, and cultural capital ; in fact, many of them are known only through the texts that their students, followers, or detractors wrote down.

A liberal political activist, she endorsed Barack Obama for the United States Presidential Election and later performed on the 4th and last day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

By late 1966, the Diggers opened free stores which simply gave away their stock, provided free food, distributed free drugs, gave away money, organized free music concerts, and performed works of political art.

The San Francisco group known as the Diggers articulated an influential radical criticism of contemporary mass consumer society, and so they opened free stores which simply gave away their stock, provided free food, distributed free drugs, gave away money, organized free music concerts, and performed works of political art.

She performed three of the songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, helped to bring the songs of Bob Dylan to national prominence, and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights and the environment.

The partition was performed for political purposes, but the counties were not properly organized, so they were all controlled as part of Niagara County.

After the appearance of more advanced political structures in the area, their privileged status had to be confirmed by the central power, which used this prerogative to include in the boyar class individuals that distinguished themselves in the military or civilian functions they performed ( by allocating them lands from the princely domains ).

The play was performed and published late in the reign of the childless Elizabeth I of England, at a time when the queen's advanced age made the succession an important political concern.

Eventually the people began using the broadsheet as a source for political activism by reprinting speeches, ballads or narrative songs originally performed by bards.

The choral lyrics of Alcman were meant to be performed within the social, political, and religious context of Sparta.

She studied sociology at Miranda House, Delhi University, where she became involved in political street theater and performed for three years in an amateur drama company.

The public opinion of voters was remarkably influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theatres.

The Sabre Dancers made what was probably their most widely viewed flight on 22 April 1950, when they performed before an Armed Forces Day audience at Eglin AFB, Florida, that included President Harry S. Truman, most of his Cabinet, and numerous other political leaders.

Kurt Schwitters developed what he called sound poems, while Francis Picabia and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes composed Dada music performed at the Festival Dada in Paris on 26 May 1920.

It was during this trip that Lönnrot formulated the idea that the poems might represent a wider continuity when poem entities were performed to him along with comments in normal speech connecting them.

The poems were often performed by a duo, each person singing alternative verses or groups of verses.

Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite The Carnival of the Animals, which are sometimes recited when the work is performed.

Before leaving Prague he had begun a cycle of six symphonic poems, called Má vlast (" My Fatherland "), and had completed the first two, Vyšehrad and Vltava, which had both been performed in Prague during 1875.

It took the form to new heights using the London Festival Orchestra, a loose affiliation of Decca's classical musicians given a fictitious name adding the term " London " to sound impressive, to provide an orchestral linking framework to the Moodies already written and performed songs, plus overture & conclusion sections on the album including backing up Graeme Edge's opening & closing poems recited by Pinder.

In 1941 Talich together with Czech Philharmonic made a controversial journey to Germany, where they performed the cycle of symphonic poems My Country by Bedřich Smetana.

Many Persian singers have also performed Hafez poems.

" With her new name, she sat on a stool with a sign around her neck saying " Girl Singer ," did breathing exercises, and soon performed as a reader of poems and plays, while Lester made occasional jokes about her " hidden talents.

During the latter half of the 8th century, a large number of songs and poems were composed and performed by various ranked people from warriors to the Emperor.

He also made a surprise appearance on HBO's Def Poetry where he performed two poems, titled Fuck Ashton Kutcher and How I Got the Lead on " Jeopardy !.

The Druidic rites held at Avebury are known as eisteddfod and involve participants invoking Awen ( a Druidic concept meaning inspiration ), with poems, songs and stories being publicly performed, and the Druid Prayer and Druid Vow are typically recited.

His symphonic poems In the Forest ( Miške ) and The Sea ( Jūra ) were performed only posthumously.

The earliest chansons were the epic poems performed to simple monophonic melodies by a professional class of jongleurs or ménestrels.

Accompaniment of solo songs, national heroic poems and dance melodies were performed on it in Svaneti.

There are performed one, two or three part songs and national heroic poems on it.

Ghazal poems are performed in Uzbek-Tajik Shashmakom, Turkish Makam, Persian Dastgah and Uyghur Muqam.

Among the notable works of this period are Twenty Poems ( 1960 ), a cycle of E. E. Cummings's poems for eight dancers and one actor with a commissioned score by Teiji Ito, performed in the round at the Circle in the Square Theatre in Greenwich Village and The Castle, an exploration of improvised and structured movement with jazz clarinetist-saxophonist Jimmy Guiffre at the Brooklyn Academy of Music ( 1970 ).

He was the subject of several epic poems, a novel, a comedy performed in 1930 by the Vilna Troupe, and a U. S. television programme in the 1950s.

These poems were meant to be performed in public by minstrels ( or juglares ), who each performed the traditional composition differently according to the performance context — sometimes adding their own twists to the epic poems they told, or abbreviating it according to the situation.