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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"""Tell me a story about long time"": A Study of the folkstory performance tradition in the United States Virgin Islands"
Abstract
dc:descriptionPrevious studies of the United States Virgin Islands' cultural traditions focused primarily on folkstories and folksongs as ends in themselves--Virgin Islands folklore-as-materials, Virgin Islands folklore-as-texts, Virgin Islands folklore-as-products. The present study investigated the existing folkstory performance tradition in the United States Virgin Islands by presenting the aesthetic/creative field of each storyteller and further analyzed and accurately documented the formal features of each live performance towards determining the distinctive performance characteristics of these traditional Virgin Islands storytellers who participated in the folkstory performance tradition.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Education
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Habteyes, Lois Hassell
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8600199
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69022