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Stories For The Young

ByGeoffrey G B

I hope this book will help you discover and appreciate something of the central role which traditional stories-storytelling has played in most cultures, and in some places still does. One thing to bear in mind is that in many old traditions storytelling is synonymous with song, chant, music, or epic poetry, especially in the bardic traditions. Stories may be chanted or sung, along with musical accompaniment on a certain instrument. Therefore some who would be called folk musicians by foreign music enthusiasts are just as accurately called storytellers - their true roles are more profound, as their names reflect: bards, ashiks, jyrau, griots amongst many more. Their roles in fact are often as much spiritual teachers and exemplars, or healers, for which the stories and music are vehicles, as well as historians and tradition-bearers.

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Publication Date
Sep 29, 2011
Language
English
Category
Children's
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
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By (author): Geoffrey G B

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PDF

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