Oral Tradition Journal

The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature

Issue: Volume 28, Number 2
Author(s): David F. Elmer
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Citation: http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/28ii/elmer

Abstract

This essay provides a brief historical sketch of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature and describes recent efforts to provide electronic access to the contents of the archive. It concludes with thoughts about fruitful areas for new research on the materials in the Parry Collection.

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Nikola Vujnović, singing for Parry’s Parlograph, Dubrovnik, 1934.

Photo: Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature.

Parry’s phonograph recording apparatus in use in the village of Kijevo (Croatia).

Photo: Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature.

Screen shot 1/4: the first of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

Screen shot 2/4: the first of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

Screen shot 3/4: the first of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

Screen shot 4/4: the first of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

Screen shot 1/2: the second of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

Screen shot 2/2: the second of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

Screenshot 1/2: the third of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

Screenshot 2/2: the third of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

Alija Fjuljanin in (“Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija” [“Halil Hrnjičić and Miloš the Highwayman”]), November, 1934.

Recording: The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature.

Table of Contents

1/11: Nikola Vujnović, singing for Parry’s Parlograph, Dubrovnik, 1934.

Photo: Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature.

2/11: Parry’s phonograph recording apparatus in use in the village of Kijevo (Croatia). The amplifier and embossing units can be seen on the left side of the image; a singer, Ante Cicvarić, seated before the microphone, is visible in the doorway on the right.

Photo: Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature.

3/11: Screen shot 1 of 4 representing the first of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

4/11: Screen shot 2 of 4 representing the first of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

5/11: Screen shot 3 of 4 representing the first of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

6/11: Screen shot 4 of 4 representing the first of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

7/11: Screen shot 1 of 2 representing the second of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

8/11: Screen shot 2 of 2 representing the second of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

9/11: Screen shot 1 of 2 representing the third of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

10/11: Screenshot 2 of 2 representing the third of three possible searches for PN 662, Alija Fjuljanin’s “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija.”

Image: http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc. Reproduced with permission.

11/11: Alija Fjuljanin in (PN 662, “Halil Hrnjičić i Miloš Keserdžija” [“Halil Hrnjičić and Miloš the Highwayman”]), November, 1934.

Recording: The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature.

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