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The Oral performance in Africa / edited by Isidore Okpewho.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Ibadan, Nigeria : Spectrum Books, 1990.Description: 277 p. : ill ; illustrations 22 cmISBN:
  • 9782460095 (pbk.)
  • 9789782460097 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GR350 .O72
Contents:
The study of performance / Isidore Okpewho (20 p.). -- Two griots of Senegambia / Edris Makward (19 p.). -- Kaalu Igirigiri : an Ohafia Igbo singer of tales / Chukwuma Azuonye (38 p.). -- The performance of gule wamkulu : an introduction / Enoch Timpunza Mvula (19 p.). -- Formulae in Madinka epic : the problem of translation / Gordon Innes (10 p.). -- Towards a faithful record : on transcribing and translating the oral narrative performance / Isidore Okpewho (26 p.). -- The narrator, narrative-pattern, and audience experience of oral narrative performance / Ropo Sekoni (21 p.). -- The oral performer and his audience : a case study of The Odizi saga / Isidore Okpewho (25 p.). -- Narrative rhythms in a Giryama ngano : oral patterns and musical oral patterns and musical structures / Ronald Rassner (21 p.). -- The preservation, transmission and realization of song texts : a psycho-musical approach / Daniel Avorgbedoe (20 p.). -- Wand or walking stick? : the formula and its use in Zulu praise poems / Elizabeth Gunner (23 p.). -- Structural and thematic parallels in oral narrative and film : Mandabi and two African oral narratives / Mbye Baboucar Cham (2
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A selection of papers presented at the Sixth Annual African Literature Conference held at the University of Ibadan, July 27-Aug. 1, l98l.

The study of performance / Isidore Okpewho (20 p.). --
Two griots of Senegambia / Edris Makward (19 p.). --
Kaalu Igirigiri : an Ohafia Igbo singer of tales / Chukwuma Azuonye (38 p.). --
The performance of gule wamkulu : an introduction / Enoch Timpunza Mvula (19 p.). --
Formulae in Madinka epic : the problem of translation / Gordon Innes (10 p.). --
Towards a faithful record : on transcribing and translating the oral narrative performance / Isidore Okpewho (26 p.). --
The narrator, narrative-pattern, and audience experience of oral narrative performance / Ropo Sekoni (21 p.). --
The oral performer and his audience : a case study of The Odizi saga / Isidore Okpewho (25 p.). --
Narrative rhythms in a Giryama ngano : oral patterns and musical oral patterns and musical structures / Ronald Rassner (21 p.). --
The preservation, transmission and realization of song texts : a psycho-musical approach / Daniel Avorgbedoe (20 p.). --
Wand or walking stick? : the formula and its use in Zulu praise poems / Elizabeth Gunner (23 p.). --
Structural and thematic parallels in oral narrative and film : Mandabi and two African oral narratives / Mbye Baboucar Cham (2

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