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Genre/Form: | Poetry readings (Sound recordings) |
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Material Type: | Audio book, etc., Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File, Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sam Liebhaber |
ISBN: | 9781503605251 1503605256 |
OCLC Number: | 1038057636 |
Description: | 1 online resource : sound, color illustrations. |
Responsibility: | by Samuel Liebhaber. |
Abstract:
The Mahra people of the southern Arabian Peninsula have no written language but instead possess a rich oral tradition. Samuel Liebhaber takes readers on a tour through their poetry, collected by the author in audio and video recordings over the course of several years. Based on this material, Liebhaber developed a systemic approach to Mahri poetry that challenges genre-based categorizations of oral poetry from the Arabian Peninsula. By taking into account all Mahri poetic expressions--the majority of which don't belong to any of the known genres of Arabian poetry--Liebhaber creates a blueprint for understanding how oral poetry is conceived and composed by native practitioners. Each poem is embedded in a conceptual framework that highlights formal similarities between them and recapitulates how Mahri poets craft poems and how their audiences are primed to receive them. The web-based medium allows users not only to delve into the classification system to explore the diversity and complexity of the Mahra's poetic expressions, but also to experience the formation of a poem in the moment. Through a series of questions designed to define the social context in which a poem is being created, the reader is taken on an experiential tour through the corpus that highlights the embeddedness of poetry in the Mahras' everyday practices.
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