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Perspective on a Tradition
The 1970s and 1980s saw industrial capitalism replaced in Britain by financial capitalism: industry was outsourced and social life was commodified....
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Sicily, the Classical Tradition and Interpretative Possibilities in John Barclay’s Argenis
This article explores reasons for the choice of Sicily as the main backdrop for John Barclay’s 1621 Neo-Latin novel Argenis . It suggests that the...
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Black Nativities: Transgressing Tradition
Since 1961, Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity has been regularly performed in the United States. Scholar Macelle Mahala locates it “at the intersection...
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Solon Archery Tradition: Forgotten Martial Arts of a Qing Elite Force
The Solon were an elite fighting force during the Qing dynasty; at the same time, they had their own cultural identity that both preceded and...
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Revision, Change, and the Native American Oral Tradition in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine(s)
This chapter discusses the revisions and expansions that Louise Erdrich made, first in 1993 and again in 2009, to her highly successful debut novel...
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Oral Tradition and Identity
Oral tradition has long provided historians with an enticing source in reconstructing Africa’s past, and has also been the subject of continuing...
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Tradition und Konvention der Motettenkomposition zu Bachs Zeit
Wie wir eingangs ausführten, legen wir unserer Untersuchung einen materialen Geschichtsbegriff zugrunde. Eine Erörterung des Begriffes und der Idee...
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Simple Minds, Powerful Voices: Tradition and Transformation in the Patachitras of Bengal
The tradition of storytelling is perhaps as old as the history of human evolution itself; with or without language, this practice enables the sharing...
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Epic Tradition
This chapter presents an overview of debates about the epic in Africa, including such questions as the definition of the epic, relationships to other...
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The Latin American Critical Tradition of Communication Research and the Early Years of Participation in IAMCR, 1960–1990
In this chapter, the late Rafael Roncagliolo, together with Eduardo Villanueva-Mansilla, reflect on the early years of engagement with communication...
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George Gerbner and the Anti-Fascist Tradition of Communication Research
This chapter provides an overview of George Gerbner’s academic career, connecting it to the history of IAMCR. Gerbner being a politically engaged and...
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From Imperio to Lola: Map** Comedy in the Tradition of Spanish Folkloric Musicals (1930–1960)
Spanish cinema has always been keen on comedy. With the arrival of sound cinema, films with folkloric songs and high doses of humour were the logical...
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Philippe D’Iribarne: Interkulturelle Organisationsforschung im Spannungsfeld von Moderne und Tradition
Philippe D’Iribarne gehört zu den wichtigen französischen Interkulturalisten. Im Mittelpunkt seiner interpretativ ausgerichteten empirischen...
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Red Comrades Save the Galaxy: Early Russian Adventure Games and the Tradition of Anecdote
Red Comrades Save the Galaxy is one of the most popular adventure game series from the early period of game development in Russia in the late 1990s....
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The Evolving Depictions of Black South Africans in the Post-Apartheid Screenwriting Tradition
This chapter examines the depictions of Black South Africans throughout the post-Apartheid period. These are characterised by separate thematic eras...
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War Songs: Slavery, Oral Tradition, and Identity Construction
While there exists a rich body of documentation on the notion of an African-American collective identity constructed largely through written sources,...
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Oral Tradition as Commitment in Modern African Poetry
In the pre-colonial African societies, oral literature occupied a pristine position as the only form of literature. It was valued as one of the major...
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Engendering Personal Names in Basaa Culture: From the Origins to the Epic Tradition and Beyond
Basaa personal names or anthroponyms, naming practices, and the centrality of gender are the focus of this chapter. The double question to be...