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245	0	4	_aThe Oral performance in Africa / _cedited by Isidore Okpewho.
260			_aIbadan, Nigeria : _bSpectrum Books, _c1990.
300			_a277 p. : _bill ; illustrations _c22 cm.
500			_aA selection of papers presented at the Sixth Annual African Literature Conference held at the University of Ibadan, July 27-Aug. 1, l98l.
505			_aThe 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
650		0	_aOral tradition
650		0	_aFolk literature, African _x Oral tradition -- Africa -- Congresses.
650		0	_aFolk music
700	1		_aOkpewho, Isidore.
711	2		_aAfrican Literature Conference
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