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{"title":"Noting the Tunes of Seventeenth-Century Broadside Ballads: The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA)","authors":"Patricia Fumerton, Eric Nebeker","doi":"10.1353/ORT.2013.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ORT.2013.0029","url":null,"abstract":"The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu, hosted at the University of California-Santa Barbara, was founded in 2003 to render pre-1700 English broadside ballads fully accessible as texts, art, songs, and cultural records. EBBA focuses especially on the broadside ballads of the seventeenth century because that period was the \"heyday\" of the genre.1 In their heyday, ballads were printed on one side of large sheets of paper (hence \"broad\"-side) mostly in swirling, decorative, black-letter (or what we today call \"Gothic\") typeface, embellished with many woodcuts and other ornamentation, and labeled with a tune title printed just below the song title. These alluring multimedia artifacts addressed multifarious topics--often from more than one perspective--to catch the interest of a wide audience.2","PeriodicalId":30001,"journal":{"name":"Oral Tradition","volume":"28 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66491892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Orality and Technology, or the Bit and the Byte: The Work of the World Oral Literature Project","authors":"Mark Turin","doi":"10.1353/ORT.2013.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ORT.2013.0025","url":null,"abstract":"For societies in which traditions are conveyed more through speech than through writing, oral literature is often an important medium for the transmission of ideas, knowledge, and history. The term \"oral literature,\" while contested, can be broadly read to include ritual texts, curative chants, epic poems, folk tales, creation stories, songs, myths, spells, legends, proverbs, riddles, tongue twisters, recitations, and historical narratives. This list is by no means exhaustive or intended to be definitive, but it serves rather to underscore the range of performative styles that can be accommodated within the category of oral literature (and, by association, within folklore and oral tradition). In many cases, oral and performative traditions are not translated when a community shifts to using a more dominant language, and oral literature in general remains one of the most poorly studied and least recognized forms of human creative expression.","PeriodicalId":30001,"journal":{"name":"Oral Tradition","volume":"28 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66492316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: An Overview","authors":"S. Kung, Joel Sherzer","doi":"10.1353/ORT.2013.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ORT.2013.0011","url":null,"abstract":"The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a repository of primarily linguistic and anthropological data about the indigenous languages of Latin America and the Caribbean. In this article we give a brief description of the archive and its mission in Section 1, and we discuss the predecessors and precursors to AILLA in Section 2, and the importance of AILLA in Section 3. In Section 4 we highlight a few of the large and publicly accessible collections, and in Section 5 we illustrate some of the ways in which teachers, professors, researchers, and indigenous community members have used data archived at AILLA.","PeriodicalId":30001,"journal":{"name":"Oral Tradition","volume":"38 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66491972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Digital Archiving of Endangered Language Oral Traditions: Kaipuleohone at the University of Hawai‘i and C’ek’aedi Hwnax in Alaska","authors":"Andrea L. Berez","doi":"10.1353/ORT.2013.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ORT.2013.0010","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay I compare and contrast two small-scale language archives and discuss their relevance for oral tradition research.1 The first of these is Kaipuleohone, the University of Hawai'i Digital Ethnographic Archive (KUHDEA).2 KUHDEA is administered by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM) and curated by the UHM library in an institutional DSpace repository under the purview of the UHM library. The second archive presented here is called C'ek'aedi Hwnax 3 (C'H), which serves the Ahtna Alaska Native community in and around the Copper River region of south central Alaska. C'H is fully administered by the Ahtna community itself via a non-profit organization known as the Ahtna Heritage Foundation (AHF).","PeriodicalId":30001,"journal":{"name":"Oral Tradition","volume":"28 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66491958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Medieval Storytelling and Analogous Oral Traditions Today: Two Digital Databases","authors":"E. B. Vitz, M. Lawrence","doi":"10.1353/ORT.2013.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ORT.2013.0018","url":null,"abstract":"We are pleased to present two open-access digital databases of video clips from performances of medieval narratives and analogous living oral storytelling traditions: Performing Medieval Narrative Today: A Video Showcase (http://www.nyu.edu/pmnt, [PMNT]) and Arthurian Legend in Performance (https://vimeo.com/ArthurPerform, [ALP]). While in the process of editing, along with our colleague Nancy Freeman Regalado, a book entitled Performing Medieval Narrative (Vitz et al. 2005), we came up against a challenge: to most people, including many academics, it was simply inconceivable that the narrative literature of the medieval past had been performed. The underlying thinking, at least among scholars in modern literature departments, was that such works survive as books, and that books are to be read—silently. People were of course aware of references to performance within medieval texts, but these references did not seem believable or, more precisely, such performances were not imaginable. Most people had never seen narrative works from the Middle Ages performed and had trouble understanding how they could be performed. Their primary experience with live storytelling was typically the type of bookish entertainment provided for children in public libraries and independent bookshops. Storytelling in the West has been largely infantilized in the past century, making it difficult for many people to understand how adults of any level of sophistication might in the past have enjoyed watching and listening to the performance of narrative—in other words, storytelling. To help people conceptualize ways in which narratives might have been performed in the Middle Ages, and to experiment with various new ways medieval narratives might be performed for audiences today, we began work on our website Performing Medieval Narrative Today: A Video Showcase. We created the pilot version of PMNT with a team from the Digital Studio of New York University Libraries, with Jennifer Vinopal as Project Manager.1 Launched in 2004, the website was hacked in 2011. When forced to shut down PMNT, we migrated the contents and rebuilt the site with the generous support of Vinopal and the team at NYU’s Digital Studio. Benefiting from technological advancements, the new PMNT, launched in 2012 at http:// www.nyu.edu/pmnt, allows for broader and easier searching of its contents, and, unlike our original site, can be accessed from smartphones and other mobile devices. Oral Tradition, 28/2 (2013):279-290","PeriodicalId":30001,"journal":{"name":"Oral Tradition","volume":"28 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ORT.2013.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66492132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Sirat Bani Hilal Digital Archive","authors":"D. Reynolds","doi":"10.1353/ORT.2013.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ORT.2013.0014","url":null,"abstract":"The primary purpose of the Sirat Bani Hilal Digital Archive (http://www.siratbanihilal.ucsb.edu) is to preserve and make accessible online, to both scholars and the general public, materials related to the Arabic oral epic tradition of Sirat Bani Hilal (the epic of the Bani Hilal Bedouin tribe). The archive was created with the assistance of a yearlong \"Digital Innovation\" grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (2008-09) and is now a permanent collection in the holdings of the Davidson Research Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The core of the archive is a body of audio recordings, photographs, and field notes from research conducted by Dwight F. Reynolds (Professor, Arabic Language and Literature, UCSB) in Egypt in 1982-83, 1986-87, 1988, 1993, and 1995.1","PeriodicalId":30001,"journal":{"name":"Oral Tradition","volume":"28 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66492037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The SKVR Database of Ancient Poems of the Finnish People in Kalevala Meter and the Semantic Kalevala","authors":"Lauri Harvilahti","doi":"10.1353/ORT.2013.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ORT.2013.0019","url":null,"abstract":"The Folklore Archives are the central holdings for oral tradition research in Finland. The actual collection of folklore began in Finland in the first half of the nineteenth century with poems and charms in the Kalevala meter. Since the mid-nineteenth century, the press also participated by publishing appeals to collectors, and these calls were invariably met with great enthusiasm. Towards the end of the nineteenth century a network of collectors was established, guidelines for collection were prepared, and folklore collection was encouraged in general. At the turn of the century, the Kalevala-meter poems and charms were joined by collections of folktales, in the 1930s legends were added, and gradually all fields of agrarian folklore, proverbs and riddles, the belief tradition, and laments were included. In 1900 the archive of the Finnish Literature Society still had only approximately 200,000 items of folklore, and today the archive holds approximately four million folklore items. In 1937 the Society's folklore collections were consolidated into a research institution known as the Folklore Archives of the Finnish Literature Society.1 Various organizations and educational establishments also responded and took an active interest in folklore collecting.","PeriodicalId":30001,"journal":{"name":"Oral Tradition","volume":"28 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66492143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Curation of Oral Tradition from Legacy Recordings: An Australian Example","authors":"N. Thieberger","doi":"10.1353/ORT.2013.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ORT.2013.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Hundreds of hours of ethnographic field recordings and their associated oral tradition were destined to be lost until the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC, http://paradisec.org.au) was established in 2003 to digitize and curate this legacy made by Australian academic researchers since the 1960s (Barwick and Thieberger 2006; Thieberger and Barwick 2012).1 These recordings in the languages of the region around Australia (broadly speaking, an area that includes Indonesia, Papua New Guinea [PNG], and the Pacific Islands) have high cultural value and are often the only records in these languages.","PeriodicalId":30001,"journal":{"name":"Oral Tradition","volume":"28 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ORT.2013.0031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66491942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Matti Kuusi International Database of Proverbs","authors":"Outi Lauhakangas","doi":"10.1353/ORT.2013.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ORT.2013.0016","url":null,"abstract":"The original owner of the library of proverb collections, the compiler and author of the card-index with tens of thousands of literature references, and the architect of the international type system of proverbs was Matti Kuusi (1914-1998). Kuusi was Professor of Finnish and Comparative Folk Poetry Studies (today called folkloristics) at the University of Helsinki from 1959 to 1977. One of his areas of expertise was paremiology, the research of proverbs. This especially floating genre of folklore led him to establish contacts with scholars around the world. One of the most esteemed paremiologists ever, Professor Archer Taylor (1890-1973) from California, urged him to found the journal Proverbium and act as its first editor-in-chief. Kuusi’s pioneering and active paremiological period at the head of the journal lasted from 1965 to 1974, during which time a strong net of paremiologists developed as he invited proverb scholars to contribute to this forum. The journal continues today under the same name as a yearbook of international proverb scholarship edited by Professor Wolfgang Mieder. New contacts brought in Oral Tradition, 28/2 (2013):217-222","PeriodicalId":30001,"journal":{"name":"Oral Tradition","volume":"28 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66492047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Working Papers of Iona and Peter Opie","authors":"J. C. Bishop","doi":"10.1353/ORT.2013.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ORT.2013.0012","url":null,"abstract":"The present article considers the papers at the Bodleian Libraries, specifically the Opies' primary and secondary data relating to children's verbal art and play. A finding aid for the Opie Working Papers was compiled in 2011, and the material itself is available for consultation onsite in Oxford. A project entitled \"Childhoods and Play: An Archive\" has recently been set up to seek funding for the full cataloging and digitization of the Opie papers and, subject to the necessary permission, to make them freely available online for academic, educational, and community purposes. The project has been granted British Academy Research Project status (2012-17) and is a collaboration between the University of Sheffield, the University of London Institute of Education, the Bodleian Libraries, the British Library, and the Folklore Society.","PeriodicalId":30001,"journal":{"name":"Oral Tradition","volume":"28 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66491982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}