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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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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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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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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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Oral Poetry and Somali Nationalism
1982This book explores the influence of oral poetry on Somali politics. By reconstructing the history of the Somali nationalist resistance movement, mainly through the use of political oratory in verse form by its leader, Sayyid Mahammad 'Abdille Hasan', the 'Mad Mullah' of British history, Said Samater shows how an indigenous resource can be harnessed in ...
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Understanding Beowulf: Oral Poetry Acts
The Journal of American Folklore, 1993How and why was Beowulf written down ? The A. presents a new theory of the making of this material text based on the concept of the « oral poetry act », a staged event that aims to generate a readable text of an oral poem for the benefit of a textual community.
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Nabati Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia
The Journal of American Folklore, 1986Sheila K. Webster, Saad Abdullah Sowayan
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Journal of Black Studies, 1991
Tiv oral poetry is a very lively and dynamic art form; and like its counterpart among the Hausa, Yoruba, and other traditional African societies it could be spoken, chanted, or sung.' Other media for the rendition of Tiv oral poetry include flutes, drums, horns, trumpets, xylophones, lyre, slit-log drums, the zither, and others.
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Tiv oral poetry is a very lively and dynamic art form; and like its counterpart among the Hausa, Yoruba, and other traditional African societies it could be spoken, chanted, or sung.' Other media for the rendition of Tiv oral poetry include flutes, drums, horns, trumpets, xylophones, lyre, slit-log drums, the zither, and others.
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Extemporaneous Oral Poetry in Central Italy
Folklore, 1982A TRADITION of improvized oral poetry is still relatively widespread in the rural areas of the Tyrrenic side of Central Italy.' This tradition, not very well documented in the specialized literature, is based on the metre of the classic Italian chivalric epic poems, an eight-line stanza called the ottava rima ('octave rhyme'), as a canvas for ...
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