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Importance of Oral Ritual Calendric Poetry

Sakarya University Journal of Education, 2020
Calendric lyric poetry as a folk tradition plays an important role in ethnic cultures. It is an area where cultural researchers, anthropologist and sociologists find answers to a lot of questions. Oral folk tradition in general and calendric lyric poetry
Atdhe Hykolli, Seniha Krasniqi
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Mahri Oral Poetry and Arabic Nabaṭī Poetry: Common core, divergent outcomes

Arabian Humanities, 2015
The collections and critical studies of Bedouin vernacular poetry from the Arabian Peninsula (nabaṭī poetry) published over the last century have revealed it to be a dynamic cultural practice whose regional specificities are secondary to its overall ...
Samuel Liebhaber
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Images of Amhara women in oral poetry

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2020
The objective of this article is to describe thematic images of Amhara women in oral poetry. The study is based on field research conducted in rural areas of Western Gojjam and Awi Zone.
Berhanu Asaye Agajie
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The verse-form of Northern Sotho oral poetry

Literator, 2002
Although examples of certain Northern Sotho traditional oral genres have been collected over years, a study of verse-form in traditional initiation poetry has not yet been undertaken. This article will consider the way in which Northern Sotho traditional
M.J. Mojalefa
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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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Boerneef en die volkspoësie

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018
The poet Boerneef (pseudonym of I. W. van der Merwe, 1897-1967) referred to his own poetry as volkspoësie (oral poetry). This is in contradistinction to the usual conception of oral literature as traditional verbal art handed down by word of mouth and ...
Wium van Zyl
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Orality, Literacy, Modernity and Modern African Poetry

ABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBO, 2013
This paper attempts to locate and situate how Modem African Poetry turned the corner from a beginning encapsulated in poetic lines which are influenced and modeled after Western style and poets, to embracing forms of African oral traditions.
Olumide Olugbemi-Gabriel
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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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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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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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