A Bibliography of Publications by Albert Bates Lord
John Miles Foley, Mary Louise Lord, Morgan E. Grey
This bibliography was compiled by Morgan E. Grey, using the prior bibliography attached to J.M. Foley, “Albert Bates Lord (1912-1991):…
Asian Origins of Cinderella: The Zhuang Storyteller of Guangxi
Fay Beauchamp
The acceptance and understanding of the Asian origins of the “Cinderella” story should replace the widely held belief that the…
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Rethinking the Orality-Literacy Paradigm in Musicology
Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson
This paper poses questions regarding the implications of mainstream orality-literacy research on musicological perspectives and the relevance of musicological research…
Interperformative Relationships in Ingrian Oral Poetry
Kati Kallio
Kalevala-metric oral poetry comprises various genres, from epic and lyric to ritual poetry, dancing songs, and lullabies. These poems were…
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The Tuzu Gesar Epic: Performance and Singers
Wang Guoming
The Gesar epic is a Tibetan heroic epic widely spread across the vast ethnic regions of China. It amounts to…
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Improvised Song in Schools: Breaking Away from the Perception of Traditional Song as Infantile by Introducing a Traditional Adult Practice
Albert Casals, Jaume Ayats, Mercè Vilar
This article revolves around a project aimed at incorporating improvised song into primary school education. Among its objectives, this pilot…
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“Secret Language” in Oral and Graphic Form: Religious-Magic Discourse in Aztec Speeches and Manuscripts
Katarzyna Mikulska Dąbrowska
The purpose of this paper is to analyze a particular linguistic register of the Nahua (Aztec) people that has been…
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Orality, Literacy, Popular Culture: An Eighteenth-Century Case Study
Laura Davies
Taking two antiquarian texts as its central focus—Henry Bourne’s Antiquitates Vulgares: Antiquities of the Common People (1725) and the revised…
“Writing” and “Reference” in Ifá Divination Chants
Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́
The 256 graphic inscriptions (odù), and the infinite number of illustrative narratives (ẹsẹ) that they generate, constitute the two main…
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“Like Cords Around My Heart”: Sacred Harp Memorial Lessons and the Transmission of Tradition
Kiri Miller
Sacred Harp singing is a participatory American vernacular hymnody tradition with historical roots in New England and the rural South.…
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