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Voicing the moment : improvised oral poetry and Basque tradition

Title
Voicing the moment : improvised oral poetry and Basque tradition / edited by Samuel G. Armistead and Joseba Zulaika.
Publication
Reno : Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Armistead, Samuel G., 1927-2013.
  • Zulaika, Joseba.
  • University of Nevada, Reno. Center for Basque Studies.
Description
430 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Center for Basque Studies conference papers series ; no. 3
Uniform Title
Center for Basque Studies conference papers series ; no. 3.
Subjects
Note
  • "The first international symposium on Basque orally improvised poetry was held in Reno (Nevada), on May 16-17, 2003, under the auspices of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno"--Pref.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-402) and index.
Contents
Improvised poetry in the Hispanic tradition / Samuel G. Armistead -- Improvised oral poetry in Spain / Maximiano Trapero -- Comparative oral traditions / John Miles Foley -- Improvisation, inspiration and Basque verbal context : identity in performance / John Zemke -- Playfulness and planfulness : improvisation and revitalization in culture / James W. Fernandez -- The sting in the tail : the flourishing and decline of improvised verse in the mountains of Cantabria / William A. Christian, Jr. -- Improvised invective in Hispano-Arabic poetry and Ibn Quzman's "Zajal 87" (when blond meets blonde) / James T. Monroe -- Next text, old theories : oral and improvisational imperatives in Federico Garcia Lorca's "Romance Sonambulo" / Wifredo de Rafols -- Bertsolaritza : island or archipelago? / Gorka Aulestia -- The folk arts of the Maskarada performance / Kepa Fernandez De Larrinoa -- Basque rap in the American West : Bertsolariak / Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe -- Bertsolariak and writers : an old tale of fathers and sons / Joseba Zulaika -- Formulas in the mind : a preliminary examination to determine if oral formulaic theory may be applied to the Basque case / Linda White -- A theoretical framework for improvised Bertsolaritza / Joxerra Garzia -- Present-day Bertosolaritza : reality and challenges / Jon Sarasua -- The process of creating improvised Bertsoak / Andoni Egana -- Bertsolaritza and its musical foundations : some observations / Israel J. Katz.
ISBN
  • 1877802565
  • 1877802557 (pbk.)
LCCN
2005013593
OCLC
  • 60419728
  • ocm60419728
  • SCSB-5227293
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries