"Ethnopaleography" and Recovered Performance: "The Problematic Witnesses to "Eddic Song

Performance is, more than composition or transmission, probably agreed to be the single most important stage in the life of oral poetry. Harris discusses the "ethnopaleographic" project of Dennis Tedlock and attempts to take the latter's procedure as a model for a minor exercise devot...

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Published inWestern folklore Vol. 62; no. 1/2; pp. 97 - 117
Main Author Harris, Joseph
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA California Folklore Society 2003
Western States Folklore Society
Subjects
Ballads
Cognitive problems, arts and sciences, folk traditions, folklore
Ethnology
Literary criticism
Melody
Musical meter
Musical performance
Oral poetry
Oral tradition
Oral/folk literature
Poetic meter
Poetry
Singers
Singing
Stanzas
Tedlock, Dennis
Iceland
North Europe
Reconstruction
Oral tradition
Singing poetry
Oral literature
Ethnomusicology
Music
Performance
Philology
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Summary:Performance is, more than composition or transmission, probably agreed to be the single most important stage in the life of oral poetry. Harris discusses the "ethnopaleographic" project of Dennis Tedlock and attempts to take the latter's procedure as a model for a minor exercise devoted to Old Icelandic verse. He focuses on a single aspect of the performance of the poetry, its possible musical presentation, and on the reliability of witnesses to "eddic song."
ISSN:0043-373X
2325-811X