Words as Events: Cretan Mandinádes in Performance and Composition

"Words as Events introduces the tradition of short, communicative rhyming couplets, the mantinádes, as still sung and recited in a variety of performance situations on the island of Crete. Recently, these poems have also entered modern mass media and they are widely being exchanged as text messages...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Sykäri, Venla
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Finnish Literature Society / SKS 2021
Subjects:	performances rune singing folk songs interpretation folk poetry Crete Dialogic Finland Folklore Improvisation Oral literature Rhyme thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
Online Access:	617190
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