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Deep digital poetry: Interrogating Tiv oral poetry within postmodernity

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017
Poetry is one of the most vibrant artistic forms for socio-economic and political reconstruction of society among the Tiv of North Central Nigeria. The poets fix themselves in the forefront of arousing and propagating cultural consciousness, exposing ...
Godwin Aondaofa Ikyer
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Poetry as an oral outlet

PsicoArt, 2013
The text is inspired by some of Freud’s observations, regarding, among other things, the pleasure the child takes from playing with words as preliminary degree of wit.
Abraham Arden Brill
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Lord of the Singers [PDF]

, 1988
Like three other authors in this issue, Jeff Opland has put his fieldwork, in this case principally among the Xhosa-speaking peoples of South Africa, to excellent use in his writings on oral tradition.
Opland, Jeff
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Arrègulas: Oral Poetry and Minority Language Standardisation

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019
Arrègulas is a proposal for the standardisation of Campidanese Sardinian approved by the Province of Cagliari, in 2009. It began as a reaction to the promotion by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia of one Logudorese-based standard language (Limba Sarda ...
Rosangela Lai
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Basque Oral Poetry Championship [PDF]

Oral Tradition, 2007
Imagine selling 13,025 tickets for oral poetry. Imagine further an entire 6-7 hours of live performances broadcast on regional television as they happen, with excerpts, summaries, and expert commentary on national television. Imagine a one-day event--the final act in a multistage, four-year, Olympian drama of qualification and elimination--galvanizing ...
John Miles Foley
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The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies [PDF]

, 2008
'The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies' uses a brief survey of current work on Old English poetry as the point of departure for arguing that although useful, the concepts of orality and literacy have, in medieval studies ...
Hall, Alaric
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Voices from the Past: compositional approaches to using recorded speech [PDF]

, 2006
This paper investigates some of the ways in which composers and sound artists have used recordings of speech, especially in works mediated by technology.
Lane, Cathy
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Ginsberg's Performance Poetry: The Effect of Transformation of Spoken Words on the Development of the Performance

Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-ādāb Ǧāmiʿaẗ Būrsaʿīd, 2023
Performance poetry, in general, is a multifaceted field: a varied art form that emerged from many different traditions. The main conception of oral poetry that can describe this poetic technique is spoken-word poetry.
Ghada Mohamed Ali Mahran, Ashraf Ibrahim Zidan   +1 more
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Promoting women empowerment through songs: Barmani Choge and her performances

Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2020
This paper examines the oral performances of Hausa poet Hajiya Sa’adatu Barmani Choge (1945-2013). Her songs promoted the genre of music called Amada; music performed using calabash ensemble in northern Nigeria.
Umma Aliyu Musa
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Die Sonette an Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke from the perspective of the Mɨnɨka rafue

Mundo Amazónico, 2018
Here are analyzed Die Sonette an Orpheus (1922) by Rainer Maria Rilke from an indigenous theoretical framework with two purposes: 1. To explore the intercultural possibilities of literary studies. 2. Highlight the aesthetic modernity of oral poetry.
Selnich Vivas Hurtado
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