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Elaborate Versionings: Characteristics of Emergent Performance in Three Print/Oral/Aural Poets
2006
Oral Tradition
From Page to Performance The significant influence of oral literature, song, and vernacular speech forms on nineteenth-and twentieth-century American literature is generally recognized by scholars, teachers, and editors. The authoritative, four-volume American Poetry series published by the Library of America serves as an index of this consensus, with sections on anonymous ballads, blues lyrics, popular song, Native American poetry (song and narrative), folk songs, and spirituals. 2 These and
doi:10.1353/ort.2006.0019
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