Oral Tradition Journal

Oral Tradition Journal
E-ISSN: 1542-4308 Print ISSN: 0883-5365

Welcome to Oral Tradition, a forum for discussion of the world’s oral traditions and related forms, from the ancient world to the present day. OT is freely available to all interested scholars, students, performers, and general readers without charge as an online, open-access resource. Here you will find both the current issue of the journal as well as all back issues from the inaugural publication in 1986 onward. In this electronic incarnation, OT reaches more than 20,000 readers per year in 216 countries and territories, and includes multimedia eCompanions to articles—audio, video, photographic, and other support for the article texts—that help to illuminate the traditions under investigation.

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Oral Tradition Current Table of Contents

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Oral Tradition Volume 26, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 2010

	Revenge of the Spoken Word?: Writing, Performance, and New Media in Urban West Africa by Moradewun Adejunmobi
	Singing Dead Tales to Life: Rhetorical Strategies in Shandong Fast Tales by Eric Shepherd
	Crossing Boundaries, Breaking Rules:Continuity and Social Transformation in Trickster Tales from Central Asia by Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Raushan Sharshenova
	A Case Study in Byzantine Dragon-Slaying: Digenes and the Serpent by Christopher Livanos
	The Forgotten Text of Nikolai Golovin: New Light on the Igor Tale by Robert Mann
	Collecting South Slavic Oral Epic in 1864: Luka Marjanović’s Earliest Account by Aaron Phillip Tate
	Possibilities of Reality, Variety of Versions: The Historical Consciousness of Ainu Folktales by Minako Sakata
	Pir Sultan Abdal: Encounters with Persona in Alevi Lyric Song by Paul Koerbin
	Ritual Scenes in the Iliad: Rote, Hallowed, or Encrypted as Ancient Art? by Margo Kitts

Oral Tradition Master Index

Oral Tradition Volume 25, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 2010

Oral Tradition Volume 25, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 2010

Oral Tradition in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Oral Tradition Volume 24, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 2009

Sound Effects

Oral Tradition Volume 24, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 2009

Oral Tradition Volume 23, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 2008

Oral Tradition Volume 23, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 2008

Oral Tradition Volume 22, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 2007

Basque Special Issue

Oral Tradition Volume 22, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 2007

Bob Dylan’s Performance Artistry

Oral Tradition Volume 21, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 2006

Oral Tradition Volume 21, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 2006

Oral Tradition Volume 20, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 2005

Performance Literature (2)

Oral Tradition Volume 20, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 2005

Performance Literature (1)

Oral Tradition Volume 19, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 2004

Oral Tradition Volume 19, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 2004

Oral Tradition Volume 18, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 2003

Synopses of Oral Traditions (2)

Oral Tradition Volume 18, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 2003

Synopses of Oral Traditions (1)

	The People’s Poetry by Steve Zeitlin
	The Poem Performed by Felice Belle
	The Heike in Japan by Elizabeth Oyler
	Japanese Noh and Heike katari by Shelley Fenno Quinn
	Japanese Oral Tradition by Sybil Thornton
	Performed Narratives and Music in Japan by Alison Tokita
	The Japanese Tale of the Heike by Yamashita Hiroaki
	Oral Tradition in New Testament Studies by Richard A. Horsley
	Oral Tradition and Rabbinic Studies by Martin S. Jaffee
	Oral Tradition in Bible and New Testament Studies by Werner H. Kelber
	Oral Tradition and Biblical Scholarship by Susan Niditch
	Performance Praxis and Oral Tradition by Elizabeth C. Fine
	Tradition as Communication by Thomas A. McKean
	Homer as Oral Tradition by Egbert J. Bakker
	Oral Tradition and Hellenistic Epic: New Directions in Apollonius of Rhodes by Michael Barnes
	The Homeric Question: An Issue for the Ancients? by David Bouvier
	Ancient Greek Oral Genres by Casey Dué
	Homer and the Oral Tradition by Mark W. Edwards
	Neoanalysis and Oral Tradition in Homeric Studies by Margalit Finkelberg
	The Grain of Greek Voices by Richard Martin
	Oral Poetics and Homeric Poetry by Gregory Nagy
	Homeric Studies by Steve Reece
	The Reception of Homer as Oral Poetry by M. D. Usher
	“Oral Tradition”: Weasel Words or Transdisciplinary Door to Multiplexity? by Ruth Finnegan
	Zulu Oral Art by H.C. Groenewald
	Oral Tradition in the Context of Verbal Art by Thomas A. Hale
	The Global and the Local with a Focus on Africa by Beverly Stoeltje
	Orality in Tibet by Anne Klein
	The Metamorphosing Field of Chaoxianzu Oral Literature by Peace B. Lee
	Tibetan Oral Epic by Yang Enhong
	Oral Tradition in Lithuania by Lina Bugiene
	Translating Lithuanian Poetry by Jonas Zdanys
	The Perspective from Folklore Studies by Pertti Anttonen
	Stumbling with/over Scripts: Vignettes by Daniel Avorgbedor
	Some Reflections on the “People’s Slam of Radivoje Ilić”: Thoughts on the Interplay of the Oral and Visual by Joel M. Halpern
	Continual Morphing by Lee Haring
	Frame Tales and Oral Tradition by Bonnie D. Irwin
	Oral Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom by Catharine Mason
	Oral History by Amy Shuman
	A Plea for an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Arab Oral Tradition by Saad A. Sowayan
	“Oral Tradition” in a Technologically Advanced World by Timothy R. Tangherlini
	Oral Tradition and Folkloristics by Ülo Valk
	Basque Bertsolaritza by Linda White

Oral Tradition Volume 17, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 2002

Oral Tradition Volume 17, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 2002

Oral Tradition Volume 16, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 2001

Chinese Oral Traditions

Oral Tradition Volume 16, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 2001

Oral Tradition Volume 15, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 2000

Oral Tradition Volume 15, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 2000

Oral Tradition Volume 14, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 1999

Oral Tradition Volume 14, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 1999

Hebrew Oral Traditions

Oral Tradition Volume 13, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 1998

Oral Tradition Volume 13, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 1998

Native American Oral Traditions: Collaboration and Interpretation

Oral Tradition Volume 12, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 1997

Oral Tradition Volume 12, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 1997

South Asian Oral Traditions

Oral Tradition Volume 11, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 1996

Oral Tradition Volume 11, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 1996

Epics Along the Silk Roads

Oral Tradition Volume 10, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 1995

Oral Tradition Volume 10, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 1995

Oral Tradition Volume 9, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 1994

Oral Tradition Volume 9, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 1994

African Oral Tradition

Oral Tradition Volume 8, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 1993

Oral Tradition Volume 8, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 1993

Oral Tradition Volume 7, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
October 1992

Oral Tradition Volume 7, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
March 1992

Oral Tradition Volume 6, Number 2-3 ( Table of Contents )
May 1991

Serbo-Croatian Oral Tradition

Oral Tradition Volume 6, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
January 1991

Oral Tradition Volume 5, Number 2-3 ( Table of Contents )
May 1990

South Pacific Oral Traditions

Oral Tradition Volume 5, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
January 1990

Oral Tradition Volume 4, Number 3 ( Table of Contents )
October 1989

Oral Tradition Volume 4, Number 1-2 ( Table of Contents )
January 1989

Arabic Oral Traditions

Oral Tradition Volume 3, Number 3 ( Table of Contents )
October 1988

Oral Tradition Volume 3, Number 1-2 ( Table of Contents )
January 1988

Oral Tradition Volume 2, Number 2-3 ( Table of Contents )
May 1987

Hispanic Balladry

Oral Tradition Volume 2, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
January 1987

Festschrift for Walter J. Ong

Oral Tradition Volume 1, Number 3 ( Table of Contents )
December 1986

Oral Tradition Volume 1, Number 2 ( Table of Contents )
May 1986

Oral Tradition Volume 1, Number 1 ( Table of Contents )
January 1986

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