oral tradition
noun
: the stories, beliefs, etc., that a group of people share by telling stories and talking to each other
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Learn about the history of the American spiritual and its oral tradition with a recital by American Spiritual Ensemble.
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Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2024
Inevitably, homiletics has found itself at the crossroads between a print tradition concerned with possessive authorship and an oral tradition concerned with charisma and communion.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Folklore, defined broadly, is an oral tradition that stretches across generations.
—Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
His explorations of identity and self-definition, of the importance of the oral tradition in literature, and of his Kiowa heritage were interwoven with reverent evocations of landscape in passages of soaring lyrical prose.
—John Motyka, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
One of the trickster figures in oral tradition with Osage is Coyote.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2024
Where books were banned and statues smashed, songs endured through oral tradition.
—Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
Culling from a grand oral tradition of dad jokes is a tradition as old as dads themselves.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
Holmes also recounts the oral tradition of his family that his ancestor Budginbro would swim with Old Tom and the other orcas in the pod.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2024
Inevitably, homiletics has found itself at the crossroads between a print tradition concerned with possessive authorship and an oral tradition concerned with charisma and communion.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Folklore, defined broadly, is an oral tradition that stretches across generations.
—Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
His explorations of identity and self-definition, of the importance of the oral tradition in literature, and of his Kiowa heritage were interwoven with reverent evocations of landscape in passages of soaring lyrical prose.
—John Motyka, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
One of the trickster figures in oral tradition with Osage is Coyote.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2024
Where books were banned and statues smashed, songs endured through oral tradition.
—Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
Culling from a grand oral tradition of dad jokes is a tradition as old as dads themselves.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
Holmes also recounts the oral tradition of his family that his ancestor Budginbro would swim with Old Tom and the other orcas in the pod.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
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