(Reuters) - By nightfall, thousands of anti-government protesters in a scrappy tent city in Yemen's capital Sanaa catch their breath and begin to cheer musicians clambering onto a rickety stage. "Let's give a round of applause for the big hit, "Mother of the Martyr, Bride of Blood," their host shouts.
Sometimes jubilant, sometimes mournful, protest songs -- or revolutionary anthems, as their creators call them -- are the pulse of a nine-month-old movement still struggling to end the 33-year rule of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Sometimes jubilant, sometimes mournful, protest songs -- or revolutionary anthems, as their creators call them -- are the pulse of a nine-month-old movement still struggling to end the 33-year rule of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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