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oral traditionCultural information passed on from one generation to the next by storytellers. The forms of oral tradition include poetry (often chanted or sung), folktales, and proverbs as well as magical spells, religious instruction, and recollections of the past. Music and rhyme commonly serve as both entertainment and aids to memory. Epic poems concerning the destiny of a society or summarizing its myths often begin as oral tradition and are later written down. In oral cultures, oral tradition is the only means of communicating knowledge. The prevalence of radio, television, and newspapers in Western culture has led to the decline of oral tradition, though it survives among old people and some minority groups as well as among children, whose games, counting rhymes, and songs are transmitted orally from generation to generation. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This is one of the methods by which oral transmission creates new products through variants. Virgins did not significantly differ from nonvirgins in terms of knowledge about oral transmission of STIs, but they sometimes demonstrated slightly more naivete about protecting themselves during oral sex. When we seek to imagine performances in oral cultures, we moderns need to shift our thinking from written to oral, from private to public, from "public readers" to performers, from silent readers to hearers/audience, from individual to communal audience, and from manuscript transmission to oral transmission. |
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