Epic Inside-Out

Oral Tradition, 35/1 (2021):37-66  In spite of ourselves, epic absorbs us.1 And then we encounter issues that are more tangled… 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

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

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

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

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

Unraveling the Knot

Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):45-72  Click here to access the eCompanion. Introduction Proverbs are storehouses of traditional wisdom and are highly valued in Africa. Among… Read More