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1992
Abstract Poems that are unwritten either because the cultures in which they occur are partially or wholly nonliterate (like the traditional native cultures of Africa, Australia, Oceania, and America) or because oral forms are cherished despite a population’s overall literacy.
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Abstract Poems that are unwritten either because the cultures in which they occur are partially or wholly nonliterate (like the traditional native cultures of Africa, Australia, Oceania, and America) or because oral forms are cherished despite a population’s overall literacy.
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Ethnography, 2004
In this dialogue held in the mid-1970s, Pierre Bourdieu and the Algerian ethnologist, writer, and poet Mouloud Mammeri (1917-1989) explore and explicate the social bases, uses, and meaning of oral poetry in Kabyle society and history, thus illuminating the peculiarity of oratory and the social conditions of symbolic efficacy.
Mouloud Mammeri, Pierre Bourdieu
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In this dialogue held in the mid-1970s, Pierre Bourdieu and the Algerian ethnologist, writer, and poet Mouloud Mammeri (1917-1989) explore and explicate the social bases, uses, and meaning of oral poetry in Kabyle society and history, thus illuminating the peculiarity of oratory and the social conditions of symbolic efficacy.
Mouloud Mammeri, Pierre Bourdieu
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Orality, literacy, and Somali oral poetry
Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2006Abstract Events in the Somali regions on the Horn of Africa beginning with the establishment of the U.N. Trusteeship Territory of Somalia under Italian Administration in 1950 and culminating with the introduction of a written orthography for Somali in 1972 and the subsequent influences and aftermaths of this event on language and literacy in Somalia ...
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Speculum, 1960
Two articles by F. P. Magoun, Jr. have confirmed and given shape to some long current ideas about the formulaic nature of Old English poetry.' Drawing on the researches of Parry and Lord, which were based primarily on empirical study of a living tradition of oral poetry, Magoun has very usefully applied their principles to the Old English alliterative ...
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Two articles by F. P. Magoun, Jr. have confirmed and given shape to some long current ideas about the formulaic nature of Old English poetry.' Drawing on the researches of Parry and Lord, which were based primarily on empirical study of a living tradition of oral poetry, Magoun has very usefully applied their principles to the Old English alliterative ...
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New Literary History, 1987
ASOUTH AFRICAN poet recalls how in the early nineteenth century the Xhosa king Hintsa (c. 1790-1835) regularly appeared before his people to conduct the affairs of the nation. A bard approached the court one day, and, with a familiar image from the oral tradition, moved at once to transform the moiling crowd into a responding audience: "The late-riser ...
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ASOUTH AFRICAN poet recalls how in the early nineteenth century the Xhosa king Hintsa (c. 1790-1835) regularly appeared before his people to conduct the affairs of the nation. A bard approached the court one day, and, with a familiar image from the oral tradition, moved at once to transform the moiling crowd into a responding audience: "The late-riser ...
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The Black Scholar, 1988
(1988). On the Oral Nature of Poetry. The Black Scholar: Vol. 19, Word within a Word, pp. 92-96.
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(1988). On the Oral Nature of Poetry. The Black Scholar: Vol. 19, Word within a Word, pp. 92-96.
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Orality in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare
Journal of Cultural Studies, 2000(The Journal of Cultural Studies: 2000 2(1): 376-383)
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Creativity and Performance in Oral Poetry
2021This chapter examines the interplay of composition and performance in some oral poetry traditions of Africa. The oral methods of composition and performance are the kernel of oral literature discourse; the methods distinguish oral texts from written ones. About a dozen African traditions are described.
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Nabati Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia
World Literature Today, 1986Issa Peters, Saad Abdullah Sowayan
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Orality in Cretan Narrative Poetry
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 1990The island of Crete, during the period of Venetian rule, developed a poetic tradition unparalleled anywhere else in the Greek-speaking world. In this paper we shall be concerned only with poetry in the vernacular, whether in a systematically cultivated form of the local dialect, or in a more universal kind of Greek which at times also admitted learned ...
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