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Title:Multimedia research and documentation of oral genres in Africa: the step forward
Editors:Merolla, DanielaISNI
Jansen, JanISNI
Naït-Zerrad, KamalISNI
Year:2012
Issue:45
Pages:139
Language:English
Series:Afrikanische Studien
City of publisher:München
Publisher:Lit Verlag
ISBN:9783643901309
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:oral literature
information technology
research methods
Abstract:The papers collected in this volume approach a central concern of oral literature studies today: how to deal with oral genres in a world where new technologies have become available to more and more people? The volume is the outcome of research on African oral genres and new technologies. Contents: Technauriture: multimedia research and documentation of African oral performance (Russell H. Kaschula); From ritual to performance: the dynamics of the Dogon 'baja ni' (Walter E.A. van Beek); 'The troubled coughs of history's echoes': feedback, echo and static in South African oral/techno poetics (Annel Pieterse); Performance, hypermédia et propriété intellectuelle (Anne-Marie Dauphin-Tinturier); A short overview of the history of copyright (Bernard Kleikamp); Récitation ou spectacle de droits d'auteur? Le silence est-il une autorisation? (Jan Jansen); The Lord of the Golden Cloth: a tale of ownership in occupied and independent East Timor (Aone van Engelenhoven); A new tool or new way of thinking? Synchrotext software explored (Peter Seitel); Le site du Centre de recherche berbère de l'Inalco: conception et perspectives pour la littérature orale berbère (Abdellah Bounfour & Kamal Naït-Zerrad); Lessons from the documentation and use of oral texts: Verba Africana I (Kofi Dorvlo); Kinky spiders on the web: multimedia adaptations of trickster folktales in the age of globalization (Marita de Sterck); Reflections on video fieldwork: the making of Verba Africana IV on the Ewe Hogbetsotso festival (Daniela Merolla & Felix Ameka); Multimedia research and the documentation of oral genres in Africa: the step forward (Mineke Schipper). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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