Epic Singers and Oral Tradition

by Albert Bates Lord

Book Overview

Albert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them. Shaped by the conviction that theory should be based on what singers actually do, and have done in times past, the essays collected here span half a century of Lord's research on the oral tradition from Homer to the twentieth century. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801497175
• ISBN13: 9780801497179
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher