Voicing the Moment: Improvised Oral Poetry And Basque Tradition (Center for Basque Studies Conference Papers Series) - Hardcover

9781877802560: Voicing the Moment: Improvised Oral Poetry And Basque Tradition (Center for Basque Studies Conference Papers Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1877802565 ISBN 13: 9781877802560

Publisher: Basque Studies Program/322, 2005

This volume presents contributions of leading scholars to the field of orally improvised poetry. It includes, on the one hand, papers on Hispanic and extra-Hispanic improvised poetry and, on the other, papers in which leading practitioners of bertsolaritza studied their own poetic art and its techniques.

Among other traditions, the Slavic guslari (John Miles Foley), the Canarian punto cubano (Mazimiano Trapero), Mediterranean and Near Eastern improvisation (Samuel G. Armistead), Medieval Spanish written debates (John Zemke), Asturian deep song (James Fernandez), Cantabrian trovas (William A. Christian), Arabic invective (James T. Monroe), as well as the oral context of Garcia Lorca’s Romance son�mbulo (Wilfredo de R�fols) are examined.

On the Basque tradition of the art of bertsolaritza, Antonio Zavala, Gorka Aulestia, Linda White, Kepa Fernandez, Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe, Joseba Zulaika, Joxerra Garzia, Jon Sarasua, and Andoni Ega�a discuss its various aspects, techniques, and theories. Israel Katz concludes the volume with a study of the bertso music. The result is a happy combination of diverse perspectives that constitute a significant addition to the growing body of scholarship concerning orally improvised poetry.

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