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 The key elements of this event is the creation of a sacramental environment composed of a leader and an audience. Hence it is considered a "complete translation" but the recording is also considered incomplete. (McAllister, 306). The key elements of this event is the creation of a sacramental environment composed of a leader and an audience. Hence it is considered a "complete translation" but the recording is also considered incomplete. (McAllister, 306).
 ===== Commentary ===== ===== Commentary =====
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 +If you take a look at the transcription and listen to the audio, you will immediately note the call and response format or as if there is a leader and those that follow that would be characteristic of the event.
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 +In the transcription, you also see parallelism in the lines. The first three lines beginning with some, then you have multiple lines beginning with "&", and then you have multiples lines beginning with "with."
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 +Each line is left-aligned but then the following line is idented as it seems to be a continuation of the chant. A new line is started when everyone "catches up" and the leader begins with a new "line."
 +Often the word 'are' is transcribed as 're
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 +The word now is written NNNOOOOW as it is elongated throughout several lines.
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 +There are also words/sounds/letters placed in parenthesis that seemed to be more of an echo and deeper in sound.
  
 ===== Bibliography ===== ===== Bibliography =====
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 +“The Thirteenth Horse-Song.” jacket2.Org, media.sas.upenn.edu/jacket2/pdf/reissues/alcheringa/Alcheringa_1-2_Summer-1971.pdf.
  
 McALLISTER, H. S. “‘The Language of Shamans’: Jerome Rothenberg's Contribution to American Indian Literature.” Western American Literature, vol. 10, no. 4, 1976, pp. 293–309. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43017882. Accessed 23 June 2021. McALLISTER, H. S. “‘The Language of Shamans’: Jerome Rothenberg's Contribution to American Indian Literature.” Western American Literature, vol. 10, no. 4, 1976, pp. 293–309. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43017882. Accessed 23 June 2021.
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