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Classifications of Macca Oromoo Girls’ Nuptial Songs (Sirba Cidhaa)

Humanities, 2019
Girls’ nuptial songs of the Oromoo of Horn of Africa are powerful folksong genres, but are rarely practiced today. Ethnographic data were collected and analyzed contextually, structurally, functionally, and semantically from multidisciplinary ...
Dereje Fufa Bidu
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[Review of] Bienvenido L. Lumbera. Tagalog Poetry: 1570-1898 [PDF]

, 1991
Bienvenido Lumbera, in his Preface to this survey of Tagalog poetry, apologizes for the shortcomings of his book. Originally written twenty years ago as a doctoral dissertation, it does not take into account new information on Tagalog poetry and its ...
Skinner, Cruz
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The Story of Usun Debeskertu Khan: Triads Revisited

Монголоведение, 2020
Introduction. Long before the creation of a national writing system, the Oirats (Kalmyks) had developed a unique oral poetic tradition. By the late 17th century, there appeared a large number of translated poetic works distinguished by genre and ...
Baazr A. Bicheev, Yeerda
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El auge de la nueva poesía oral. El caso del Poetry Slam [PDF]

, 2012
Mientras que en sus orígenes y durante mucho tiempo la poesía se ligó a un tipo de cultura oral y popular, en la actualidad la poesía ha pasado a ser un género literario escrito y dirigido, generalmente, a un público minoritario y selecto.
Martínez Cantón, Clara Isabel
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That mighty pantun river and its tributaries

Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2010
Known as pantun to the Malays in Brunei, Malaysia, Pattani, Riau, Singapore, and Southern Phillipines, it is called peparikan to the Javanese, sesindiran to the Sundanese and many other different names in different ethnic groups in the different parts of
Ding Choo Ming
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Sistem Isnād Hadīts Dan Awal Mula Penggunaannya Dalam Tradisi Periwayatan Puisi Arab Jahiliyah [PDF]

, 2011
It is ordinary that riwāyah (oral transmission) has been the main media in transmitting knowledge. Indeed, for the Arabs, the transmission system was used not only in transmitting hadits, but also in transmitting the history. In terms of the transmission
Ahmad, L. T. (Lalu)
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Written out, writing in : orature in the South African literary canon [PDF]

, 2008
As described by Duncan Brown, South African orature represents "our truly original contribution to world literature" (Brown, Voicing the Text 1). This paper explores how orature might be successfully 'written into' the South African literary canon whilst
Seddon, Deborah Ann
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[Review of] Mazisi Kunene. The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain [PDF]

, 1984
Mazisi Kunene is admirably qualified to transmit both the traditional and his original Zulu poetry to an anglophone audience. He is a scholar and a performer of Zulu oral folk poetry.
Bruner, Charlotte H.
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Regilaul kui varieeruv süsteem. Suulise kultuuri toimemehhanismide modelleerimise võimalused

Keel ja Kirjandus
This article aims to highlight the value and potential of combining a large, well-organized collection of Finnic runosongs and computational research for obtaining new information on various aspects of the tradition and, more broadly, also for data ...
Mari Väina
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Palestinian improvised-sung poetry : the genres of Ḥidā and Qarrādī : performance and transmission [PDF]

, 1989
The improvised-sung poetry of the Palestinians is a living tradition of oral poetry, extemporized impromptu in the colloquial Arabic of the Palestinians.
Sbait, Ḍirghām Ḥ.
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