Editor’s Column

Readers of Oral Tradition will find in this issue an exceptionally rich and varied assortment of topics. The six essays presented here discuss texts and… Read More

The Oral Style of the R̥gveda

Oral Tradition, 35/1 (2021):3-36 1. The Study of R̥gvedic Repetitions1  In the second volume of his 1877 edition of the R̥gveda, Theodor Aufrecht collects… Read More

Coast Miwok Oral Tradition

Oral Tradition, 35/1 (2021):67-86  Little has been published on the oral traditions of the Coast Miwok that provides any information on the original language and… Read More

Dynamics of Voiced Poetry

Oral Tradition, 35 (2021):167-88 Introduction In African Muslim societies, religious values are transmitted and reinforced through “voiced texts,” poetic texts recorded in writing but designed… Read More

The Musical Poetry of Endangered Languages

Oral Tradition, 35 (2021):103-66 Many peoples of the world conceptualize what English speakers call poetry and music or song as a single integrated unit, what… Read More

About the Authors

Oral Tradition Volume 35, Number 1 George Eugene Dunkel After studying Greek, Sanskrit, and Comparative Indo-European Linguistics in Paris, Philadelphia, and Erlangen, George Dunkel… Read More

Founding Fathers, Patrons, Mothers, and Other Bertso-School Groupies

Oral Tradition, 35/1 (2021):87-102   In March, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced hundreds of thousands of Basque citizens into full lockdown,1 the electronic revolution… Read More

Traditional Nuosu Origin Narratives: A Case Study of Ritualized Epos in Bimo Incantation Scriptures

Palestinian Improvised-Sung Poetry: The Genres of Hidā and Qarrādī Performance and Transmission

Back in the Foundation

Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):3-44 1 On an 1820-21 trip into the fledgling Serbian Principality, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (hereafter “Vuk”), the language reformer,… Read More