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African literature --- Oral tradition --- Folk literature, African --- Africa. --- literature. --- oral literature. --- African languages. --- publishing. --- conference papers (form) --- 2016. --- African literature. --- Folk literature, African. --- Oral tradition. --- History and criticism

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Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary; 1774–1848) was an illiterate woman unconnected to elite literary and philosophical circles who powerfully engaged the politics of her own society through song.  As an oral arts practitioner, Máire Bhuí composed songs whose ecstatic, radical vision stirred her community to revolt and helped to shape nineteenth-century Irish anti-colonial thought. This provocative and richly theorized study explores the re-creative, liminal aspect of song, treating it as a performative social process that cuts to the very root of identity and thought formation, thus re-imagining the history of ideas in society.

Music --- Singing --- Irish poetry --- Oral tradition --- Social aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Ní Laoire, Máire Bhuí,

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Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the poems at festivals, often competing against each other. As they recited the epics, the rhapsodes spoke as both the narrator and the characters. These different acts--performing the poem and narrating and speaking in character within it--are seldom studied in tandem. Homer in Performance breaks new ground by bringing together all of the speakers involved in the performance of Homeric poetry: rhapsodes, narrators, and characters.The first part of the book presents a detailed history of the rhapsodic performance of Homeric epic from the Archaic to the Roman Imperial periods and explores how performers might have shaped the poems. The second part investigates the Homeric narrators and characters as speakers and illuminates their interactions. The contributors include scholars versed in epigraphy, the history of art, linguistics, and performance studies, as well as those capable of working with sources from the ancient Near East and from modern Russia. This interdisciplinary approach makes the volume useful to a spectrum of readers, from undergraduates to veteran professors, in disciplines ranging from classical studies to folklore.

E-books --- Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Performing arts - Appreciation - Greece --- Oral interpretation of poetry --- Oral tradition - Greece --- Homer - Criticism, Textual --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Performing arts --- Oral tradition --- Homer --- Oral interpretation of poetry. --- Oral tradition. --- Performanz --- Rezeption. --- Sprechtheater. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Appreciation --- Homer. --- Homerus, --- Criticism, Textual. --- Greece.

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In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special emphasis on women's rituals, she looks at the relationship between the framework and organization of indigenous genres and the reception of folklore performance. The regional repertoire under examination presents a strikingly female-centered world. Female performers and characters are active, articulate, and frequently challenge or defy expectations of gender. Men also confound traditional gender roles. Flueckiger includes the translations of two full performance texts of narratives sung by female and male storytellers respectively.

Folklore --- Women --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Folklore, myths & legends

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"The culture of insurgents in early modern Europe was primarily an oral one; memories of social conflicts in the communities affected were passed on through oral forms such as songs and legends. This popular history continued to influence political choices and actions through and after the early modern period. The chapters in this book examine numerous examples from across Europe of how memories of revolt were perpetuated in oral cultures, and they analyse how traditions were used. From the German Peasants' War of 1525 to the counter-revolutionary guerrillas of the 1790s, oral traditions can offer radically different interpretations of familiar events. This is a 'history from below', and a history from song, which challenges existing historiographies of early modern revolts.? "--Provided by publisher.

Folklore --- History of civilization --- History of Europe --- Literature --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Folk songs --- Folk songs. --- Mündliche Überlieferung. --- Oral tradition --- Oral tradition. --- Revolutions in literature. --- Sozialrevolution. --- Volkslied. --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- History --- Social aspects. --- 1517-1789. --- Europa. --- Europe --- Europe. --- Revolutions in literature --- Tradition orale --- --Folklore --- --Aspects sociaux --- --Littérature populaire --- --Thème --- --Révolution --- --Littérature --- --Chanson traditionnelle --- --Europe --- --XVIe-XVIIIe s., --- Oral tradition - Europe - History --- Folk songs - Europe - History and criticism --- Folklore - Social aspects - Europe - History --- Aspects sociaux --- Littérature populaire --- Thème --- Révolution --- Littérature --- Chanson traditionnelle --- XVIe-XVIIIe s., 1501-1800 --- Europe - History - 1517-1648 --- Europe - History - 1648-1789 --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Storytelling --- Folksongs --- Folk literature --- Folk music --- National music --- Songs --- Ballads --- National songs --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Oral history