In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor's Column

John Miles Foley
pp. 1-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0016
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People's Poetry

The People's Poetry

Steven J. Zeitlin
pp. 6-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0045
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The Poem Performed

Felice Belle
pp. 14-15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0007
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Japanese

The Heike in Japan

Elizabeth Oyler
pp. 18-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0033
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Japanese Noh and Heike katari

Shelley Fenno
pp. 21-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0034
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Japanese Oral Tradition

Sybil Anne Thornton
pp. 24-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0039
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Performed Narratives and Music in Japan

Alison Tokita
pp. 26-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0040
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The Japanese Tale of the Heike

Hiroaki Yamashita, Elizabeth Oyler
pp. 30-32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0021
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Bible

Oral Tradition in New Testament Studies

Richard A. Horsley
pp. 34-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0022
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Oral Tradition and Rabbinic Studies

Martin S. Jaffee
pp. 37-39
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0024
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Oral Tradition in Bible and New Testament Studies

Werner H. Kelber
pp. 40-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0025
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Oral Tradition and Biblical Scholarship

Susan Niditch
pp. 43-44
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0032
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Performance

Performance Praxis and Oral Tradition

Elizabeth C. Fine
pp. 46-48
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0013
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Tradition as Communication

Thomas A. McKean
pp. 49-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0030
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Ancient Greek

Homer as an Oral Tradition

Egbert J. Bakker
pp. 52-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0005
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Oral Tradition and Hellenistic Epic: New Directions in Apollonius of Rhodes

Michael Barnes
pp. 55-58
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0006
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The Homeric Question: An Issue for the Ancients?

David Bouvier
pp. 59-61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0008
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Ancient Greek Oral Genres

Casey Dué
pp. 62-64
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0010
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Homer and the Oral Tradition

Mark W. Edwards
pp. 65-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0011
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Neoanalysis and Oral Tradition in Homeric Studies

Margalit Finkelberg
pp. 68-69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0014
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The Grain of Greek Voices

Richard P. Martin
pp. 70-72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0028
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Oral Poetics and Homeric Poetry

Gregory Nagy
pp. 73-75
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0031
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Homeric Studies

Steve Reece
pp. 76-78
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0035
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The Reception of Homer as Oral Poetry

Mark David Usher
pp. 79-81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0041
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African

"Oral Tradition": Weasel Words or Transdisciplinary Door to Multiplexity?

Ruth H. Finnegan
pp. 84-86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0015
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Zulu Oral Art

H. C. Groenewald
pp. 87-90
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0017
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Oral Tradition in the Context of Verbal Art

Thomas A. Hale
pp. 91-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0018
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The Global and the Local with a Focus on Africa

Beverly Stoeltje
pp. 93-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0038
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Tibetan and Chinese

Orality in Tibet

Anne C. Klein
pp. 98-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0026
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The Metamorphosing Field of Chaoxianzu Oral Literature

Peace B. Lee
pp. 101-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0027
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Tibetan Oral Epic

Enhong Yang
pp. 104-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0012
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Lithuanian

Oral Tradition in Lithuania

Lina Bugiene
pp. 108-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0009
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Translating Lithuanian Poetry

Jonas Zdanys
pp. 111-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0044
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Comparative

The Perspective from Folklore Studies

Pertti Anttonen
pp. 116-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0002
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Stumbling with/over Scripts: Vignettes

Daniel Kodzo Avorgbedor
pp. 118-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0004
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Some Reflections on the "Poetry Slam of Radivoje Ilic": Thoughts on the Interplay of the Oral and Visual

Joel Martin Halpern
pp. 121-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0019
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Continual Morphing

Lee Haring
pp. 123-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0020
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Frame Tales and Oral Tradition

Bonnie D. Irwin
pp. 125-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0023
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Oral Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom

Catharine Mason
pp. 127-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0029
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Oral History

Amy Shuman
pp. 130-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0036
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A Plea for an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Arab Oral Tradition

Saad Abdullah Sowayan
pp. 132-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0037
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"Oral Tradition" in a Technologically Advanced World

Timothy R. Tangherlini
pp. 136-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0001
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Oral Tradition and Folkloristics

Ulo Valk
pp. 139-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0042
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Basque Bertsolaritza

Linda White
pp. 142-143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0043
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About the Authors

About the Authors

pp. 145-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2004.0003
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