Oral storytelling
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Oral storytelling is the human activity and tradition of intimate storytelling, dating back before ancient times, in which a speaker verbally relates a story to an audience in physically close proximi
A Story-teller reciting from the One Thousand and One Nights – 1911
Vyasa (sitting on the high table), the common title for Indian oral storytellers, reciting epics among villagers, 1913
An Indian traditional oral storyteller Dastangoi artist reciting the "Dastan"
Bard
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A bard was a poet and singer who composed and performed verse in the service of a patron, a calling attested among the ancient Celts and continued in the medieval Celtic-speaking world. The ancient ba
Oral storytelling
…Ashik/ashough, in Turkic cultures Bard, Celtic cultures Pingshu, Chinese culture…
The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West
The Bard (c. 1817), by John Martin
Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787