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Pt. 1 | Backgrounds and Resources | |
1 | The Study of African Oral Literature | 3 |
What Is "Oral Literature"? | 3 | |
An Interest in Culture | 5 | |
An Interest in Society | 9 | |
An Interest in Literature | 12 | |
Benefits of the New Trends | 17 | |
2 | The Oral Artist | 20 |
Training and Preparation | 21 | |
Artists and Patrons | 25 | |
The Artist as Maker | 30 | |
The Personality of the Artist | 34 | |
The Artist's Place in Society | 39 | |
3 | The Oral Performance | 42 |
Varieties of Performance | 42 | |
Paralinguistic Resources | 46 | |
Performer and Accompanist | 51 | |
Performer and Audience | 57 | |
Performer and Recorder | 63 | |
Composition and Performance | 67 | |
4 | Stylistic Qualities | 70 |
Repetition | 71 | |
Parallelism | 78 | |
Piling and Association | 83 | |
Tonality | 88 | |
Ideophones | 92 | |
Digression | 96 | |
Imagery | 98 | |
Allusion | 100 | |
Symbolism | 101 | |
5 | Social Relevance | 105 |
Entertainment and Relaxation | 106 | |
Asserting Interests and Outlooks | 110 | |
Teaching Ideals and Conduct | 115 | |
Recording Life | 118 | |
Pt. 2 | Types and Themes | |
6 | Songs and Chants | 127 |
Problems of Classification | 127 | |
The Nature of Songs and Chants | 130 | |
Major Themes | 137 | |
7 | Oral Narratives | 163 |
Schools of Thought | 164 | |
Categories of the Oral Narrative | 181 | |
Storytelling in Africa | 221 | |
8 | Witticisms | 226 |
Proverbs | 226 | |
Riddles | 239 | |
Puns and Tongue-Twisters | 250 | |
9 | Musical and Dramatic Forms | 253 |
The Poetry of Tone Instruments | 253 | |
Ritual Drama | 261 | |
Popular Drama | 272 | |
Pt. 3 | The Survival of Oral Literature | |
10 | Oral Literature and Modern African Literature | 293 |
Translation | 294 | |
Adaptation | 301 | |
Exploitation | 314 | |
11 | Preserving Oral Literature: Fieldwork and After | 328 |
Attitudes | 328 | |
Preparations | 334 | |
Meeting the Artist | 341 | |
Recording the Artist | 343 | |
Transcription and Translation | 347 | |
Storage | 354 | |
What Do They Get for Their Pains? | 355 | |
12 | Suggested Further Work | 360 |
Fieldwork and Documentation | 360 | |
The Urban Scene | 361 | |
Biocritical Studies | 363 | |
Other Specialized Investigations | 365 | |
Notes | 369 | |
Bibliography | 375 | |
Index | 385 |
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Add African Oral Literature, ... its pages come alive with wonderful illustrative material coupled with sensitve and insightful commentary. -Reviews in Anthropology ... the scope, breadth, and lucidity of this excellent study confirm that Okpewho is undoubtedly the most import, African Oral Literature to your collection on WonderClub |