Oral Tradition Volume 18, Number 1March 2003

Table of Contents

Editor's Column

The People’s Poetry by Steve Zeitlin

The Poem Performed by Felice Belle

The Heike in Japan by Elizabeth Oyler

Japanese Noh and Heike katari by Shelley Fenno Quinn

Japanese Oral Tradition by Sybil Thornton

Performed Narratives and Music in Japan by Alison Tokita

The Japanese Tale of the Heike by Yamashita Hiroaki

Oral Tradition in New Testament Studies by Richard A. Horsley

Oral Tradition and Rabbinic Studies by Martin S. Jaffee

Oral Tradition in Bible and New Testament Studies by Werner H. Kelber

Oral Tradition and Biblical Scholarship by Susan Niditch

Performance Praxis and Oral Tradition by Elizabeth C. Fine

Tradition as Communication by Thomas A. McKean

Homer as Oral Tradition by Egbert J. Bakker

Oral Tradition and Hellenistic Epic: New Directions in Apollonius of Rhodes by Michael Barnes

The Homeric Question: An Issue for the Ancients? by David Bouvier

Ancient Greek Oral Genres by Casey Dué

Homer and the Oral Tradition by Mark W. Edwards

Neoanalysis and Oral Tradition in Homeric Studies by Margalit Finkelberg

The Grain of Greek Voices by Richard Martin

Oral Poetics and Homeric Poetry by Gregory Nagy

Homeric Studies by Steve Reece

The Reception of Homer as Oral Poetry by M. D. Usher

“Oral Tradition”: Weasel Words or Transdisciplinary Door to Multiplexity? by Ruth Finnegan

Zulu Oral Art by H.C. Groenewald

Oral Tradition in the Context of Verbal Art by Thomas A. Hale

The Global and the Local with a Focus on Africa by Beverly Stoeltje

Orality in Tibet by Anne Klein

The Metamorphosing Field of Chaoxianzu Oral Literature by Peace B. Lee

Tibetan Oral Epic by Yang Enhong

Oral Tradition in Lithuania by Lina Bugiene

Translating Lithuanian Poetry by Jonas Zdanys

The Perspective from Folklore Studies by Pertti Anttonen

Stumbling with/over Scripts: Vignettes by Daniel Avorgbedor

Some Reflections on the “People’s Slam of Radivoje Ilić”: Thoughts on the Interplay of the Oral and Visual by Joel M. Halpern

Continual Morphing by Lee Haring

Frame Tales and Oral Tradition by Bonnie D. Irwin

Oral Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom by Catharine Mason

Oral History by Amy Shuman

A Plea for an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Arab Oral Tradition by Saad A. Sowayan

“Oral Tradition” in a Technologically Advanced World by Timothy R. Tangherlini

Oral Tradition and Folkloristics by Ülo Valk

Basque Bertsolaritza by Linda White

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