Synonyms for Oral tradition:

Famous quotes with Oral tradition

• I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

  Robert Fitzgerald
• The multiple reinforcing cues of a good songcause music to stick in our heads. That is the reason why many ancient mythswere set to music in preparation for being passed down by oral tradition

  Daniel Levitin
• It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to the health of a civilization, particularly if they thwart the interest of a people in culture, and following Aristotle, the cathartic effects of culture. "It is written but I say unto you" is a powerful directive to Western civilization.

  Harold Innis
• Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival.

  Harold Innis
• Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.

  Harold Innis

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