Epic Singers and Oral Tradition

Now Available Online | Epic Singers and Oral Tradition, by Albert Bates Lord

We are pleased to share the news that Epic Singers and Oral Tradition by Albert Bates Lord is now available in electronic form, for free, on the CHS website. In the Introduction, Lord writes: Scope alone, however impressive, and performance alone, however spectacular it may be, constitute but the outward trappings of the study of oral-traditional epic song. It is the singer and what is sung that count. They… Read more

Now Available Online | Epic Singers and Oral Tradition, by Albert Bates Lord

We are pleased to share the news that Epic Singers and Oral Tradition by Albert Bates Lord is now available in electronic form, for free, on the CHS website. In the Introduction, Lord writes: Scope alone, however impressive, and performance alone, however spectacular it may be, constitute but the outward trappings of the study of oral-traditional epic song. It is the singer and what is sung that count. They are… Read more