Multipart singing, a capella homophonic singing, oral tradition and simple music making are its main features.
Relying on "the oral tradition between master and apprentice nearly led to the death of handcrafted finishing, " he says.
Particularly noteworthy among the musical repertory of the islanders is an oral tradition of pre-Christian origin, known as runic or Kalevala-metre songs.
Sardinian is not widely taught in schools on the Italian island and has a largely oral tradition, which means there is currently no standardised form of the language.
The Mongolian Tuuli is an oral tradition comprising heroic epics that run from hundreds to thousands of lines and combine benedictions, eulogies, spells, idiomatic phrases, fairy tales, myths and folk songs.
Too much is done today on the oral tradition.
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Van Hooff briefly reviewed all the articles included in this issue which deal with oral tradition, linguistic diversity and the African influence in the region, all written by experts and prestigious intellectuals.
Iraqis like to say they are the best poets in the Arab world, where the continuing oral tradition and historical esteem given to poetry puts verse on TV and on the front page of papers.
Malian Ambassador to South Africa Sinaly Coulibaly said that while African history and culture were often associated with an oral tradition, the Timbuktu documents were a reminder that African knowledge comprises both a written and oral tradition.
Lefkaritika are included in the Heritage Archives of the Municipality of Lefkara and in the Archives of Oral Tradition of the Scientific Research Centre of Cyprus as well as at the National Heritage Index being created by experts at the Cyprus Research Centre.
Jazz is really an oral tradition.
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According to A.A. oral tradition and literature, if you go to enough meetings, you will eventually hear your own story told, enabling the addict or alcoholic in need of recovery to identify and seek assistance within the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Ms. TONI BLACKMAN (Musician): I think my music is really in the vein of a Lauryn Hill, of a Mos Def, of a Talib Kweli, of the Roots, of artists who are part of hip-hop culture and really committed not only to being on stage and being in the limelight but really committed to the art form and to the tradition of the oral tradition.
They are films that speak about modern life from an African perspective, driven by a narrative that is strongly rooted in the African oral storytelling tradition.
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Like many rural corners of Europe, Transylvania has a tradition of oral storytelling that stretches back centuries.
The committee praised him for preserving an oral record of tribal history in the tradition of West African griots.
These communities maintain oral transmission of the procedures, but also recreate the tradition by adding new and festive elements.
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