Creative dynamism and religious syncretism in Igbo oral funeral songs.
Igbo oral funeral songs are dynamic and resilient oral forms. Applying the tenets of an infracultural model of ethnopoetics to study Igbo oral funeral songs collected during fieldwork, in this article, I examine the emerging trend in most Igbo communities of the co-existence, modification, and adapt...
| Publicado en: | Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 45 - 59 |
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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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