Challenges in Comparative Oral Epic
Chao Gejin, John Miles Foley
Originally written in 2001 and subsequently published in China, this collaborative essay explores five questions central to comparative oral epic…
Instrument Teaching in the Context of Oral Tradition: A Field Study from Bolu, Turkey
Cemal Özata, Nesrin Kalyoncu
The primary objective in the present study has been to identify general characteristics of learning and teaching the playing of…
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“Copy Debts”?—Towards a Cultural Model for Researchers’ Accountability in an Age of Web Democracy
Jan Jansen
The central concern of this article is the accountability of researchers in their desire to combine the publication of oral…
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Patronage, Commodification, and the Dissemination of Performance Art: The Shared Benefits of Web Archiving
Elizabeth Wickett
Now that the Internet functions as a broadcasting forum, the “commodification” and marketing of indigenous performance art often takes place…
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Kumeyaay Oral Tradition, Cultural Identity, and Language Revitalization
Jon Meza Cuero, Margaret Field
This article discusses an example of Kumeyaay oral tradition from Baja California, Mexico, focusing specifically on the relation between stories…
Sensing “Place”: Performance, Oral Tradition, and Improvisation in the Hidden Temples of Mountain Altai
Carole Pegg, Elizaveta Yamaeva
This article suggests that during two Ak Jang (“White Way”) Sary Bür (“Yellow Leaves”) rituals in hidden open-air temples in…
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Sounding Out the Heirs of Abraham (Rom 4:9-12)
Nina E. Livesey
This article employs a newly devised analytical tool called a “sound map” to recreate the sound signature within a passage…
