February 27, 2004
A Journal Explores Oral Communication in the Digital Age
SPOKEN WORD: In the digital era, you might assume that a journal called Oral Tradition would be facing dark times. The transmission of cultural data from generation to generation through storytelling and performance is, after all, the ultimate in low-tech analog reproduction. "People tend to think of oral tradition as marginal to literature, as if it's this primitive thing that a society eventually outgrows," says John Miles Foley, a professor of English and classics at the University of
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