Praise Singing is a form of verbal art within African oral traditions in which a performer extols the genealogy, character, and deeds of an individual or lineage through stylized, poetic speech or song, distinguished from other oral genres by its celebratory function and its emphasis on personal or ancestral eminence.
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The Social Functions and Meaning of Hausa Praise-Singing
M. G. Smith · Africa · 1957 · 54 citations
Showing Praise in Greek Choral Lyric and Beyond
Alexander Nikolaev · The American Journal of Philology · 2012 · 20 citations
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- ANAlexander Nikolaev
University at Buffalo, State University of New York, United States
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University of Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria
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The Open University
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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University of Kansas
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Vanderbilt University
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- Africa Today
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- African Music: Journal of the African Music Society
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- Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology
JCSP · 1 publications · 12 citations
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- Journal of Religion in Africa
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- Nineteenth-Century Music Review
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