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"text": "1992, Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber, Random House Group (Arrow Books), page 590,\nI hid a smile at the mention of wool waulking. Alone among the Highland farms, I was sure, the women of Lailybroch waulked their wool not only to the old traditional chants but also to the rhythms of Moliére and Piron."
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"ref": "2013, Marek Korczynski, Michael Pickering, Emma Robertson, Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain, Cambridge University Press, page 97",
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},
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"ref": "2013, Marek Korczynski, Michael Pickering, Emma Robertson, Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain, Cambridge University Press, page 97",
"text": "Here, we compare waulking songs and shanties to see how they operated in bringing women and men, respectively, into a sense of close alignment.",
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