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Interview: Dr. Valerie Smitherman, Music and Social Cohesion

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Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi We sit down with the lovely Dr. Valerie Smitherman, Classicist, and talk about her Ph.D. research, the role of music in forming social cohesion, and her interest in connections between Bedouin and Classical Greek poetry!

The books and videos Dr. Smitherman mentions are as follows:
Farrin, R. 2017. Abundance from the Desert.
Hilal, H. 2010. Divorce and Khlou' Poetry - A Reading of the Status of Women in tribal Society - Nabati Poetry as a Witness.
Sowayan, S. A. 1985. Nabati Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia. (http://http://66.39.147.165/index.html)
Understanding Nabati Poetry: Tools of the Trade (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8ogAI22Cz0)
Swift, L. A. 2010. The Hidden Chorus.

For general information and sources relating to the Ancient Near East, we recommend these websites:

http://www.etana.org/abzubib - collection of free and open-access data
https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/orie... - University of Chicago Oriental Institute, great collection of free books and articles
http://www.livius.org - general encyclopedia on the ancient world
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk - Mesopotamian literature
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu - collection of projects relating to Mesopotamia
http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/neps... - Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
https://cdli.ucla.edu - Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

Music: www.bensound.com

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