Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition
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 prov...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Cornell University Press
2018
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |