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- Title
The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation.
- Authors
Børdahl, Vibeke
- Abstract
The activity of preserving the singers' performances for research purpose as experienced personally by the author also tells another tale: singers of epic are since the late twentieth century few and far between. Reichl occasionally reaches out to epic traditions in Persian, Arabic, Indian and African languages, but it is probably no coincidence that he is silent about epic traditions among the majority Chinese population, the Han Chinese. Qian Afu (1907-93), a star singer since the 1950s, deeply immersed in the local culture as a performer and transmitter, and the female peasant singer Lu Amei (1902-86), had both been recorded and published under similar conditions.
- Subjects
LITERATURE; SOCIAL norms; MORAL norms; WOMEN singers; PERFORMANCE art; SINGING
- Publication
Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies, 2023, Vol 86, Issue 2, p385
- ISSN
0041-977X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0041977X23000642