Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition
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An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds's account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1501723219
ISBN13:9781501723216
Release Date:August 2018
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:128 Pages
Weight:0.88 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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