In the absence of a written language, these patterns record the history and legends of Li culture as well as aspects of worship, taboos, beliefs, traditions and folkways.

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The producer, who retired four years ago, won a Grammy in 1989 for his work on Folkways - A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly.

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Chrysta Freeland advances a similar argument in Plutocrats: that billionaires have effectively seceded from the countries in which they happen to reside to become a nation unto themselves, with its own culture and folkways.

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The New Lost City Ramblers were formed with the explicit intention of resurrecting this music "as it had sounded before the inroads of radio, movies, and television had begun to homogenize out diverse regional folkways".

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Howard Fineman in the Huffington Post, in a piece called "The Celebrity President, " noted that Mr. Obama "doesn't hide his disdain for Congress, " for the "folkways of traditional Washington" or for Congress and the media.

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Its digital catalogue of 7 million tracks from artists and labels that include Guided By Voices, Wu-Tang Clan, Smithsonian Folkways and Sesame Street account for about 7% of all global plays on Spotify, according to data from the music-streaming service.

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