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How to read an oral poem The first eCompanion to be built accompanies a general book on oral poetry, How to Read an Oral Poem. This online facility includes audio and textual examples of South Slavic oral tradition collected in the field, a video of a slam poetry performance, photographs of oral poets from various cultures, and other ancillary materials. The reader can experience some of the performances described in the book by clicking through the eCompanion.35 Oral tradition As of volume 19 (2004), the journal Oral Tradition began the practice of providing eCompanions for some of the articles that appear in its pages. Audio, video, photographic, and database support are available for articles on Gaelic song, American jazz, Bosnian epic, Javanese dance, North Indian music, Japanese kabuki, Chinese drama, Appalachian folktales, and other traditions. With the migration of Oral Tradition to an online, free-of-charge periodical,36 eCompanions are now embedded in downloadable PDFs. L eEditions eEditions promote the resynchronization of oral performance by recombining the parts that appear only separately—if at all—in the book format. The audio or video of the performance plays alongside a transcription and translation, and the apparatus (commentary, glossary of idioms, and other contextual materials ) is linked to the translation. Clicking on those links makes the relevant material visible in a scrollable box on the same page, so that audio/video, text and transcription, and multidimensional context are reassembled into an integral experience for the user. The first eEdition to be built accompanies a South Slavic epic recorded in the 1930s, Halil Bajgorić’s performance of The Wedding of Mustajbey’s Son Bećirbey.37 A text, translation, and other (text-bound) aspects of the performance are also available as a conventional book. L ePathways The idea of pathways Pathways sport a double identity: individually, they lead from one node to another ; but corporately, they constitute an interactive network with innumerable built-in possibilities. The idea and term stem from the oAgora, the arena (Arena of Oral Tradition) in which Homer describes the qualities that an ancient Greek 96 . eCompanions ...

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