Oral Tradition journal online

Subject: Oral Tradition journal online
From: Jack Campin
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 10:26 AM

From John Foley at the University of Missouri...

On September 15, 2006, the academic journal ORAL TRADITION, founded in 1986 by the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri, entered a new chapter in its existence as an international and interdisciplinary forum for the study of worldwide oral traditions and related forms.


As of this date the journal became available electronically and free of charge at http://journal.oraltradition.org as a series of pdf (Adobe Acrobat) files, with key-word searching of all online texts and with embedded multimedia. In addition to the current issue (volume 21, number 1), four years of back issues have already been posted, and plans are underway to include the entire twenty-two years of ORAL TRADITION by the end of 2007.


We ask that you help us publicize eOT by forwarding this message to at least five colleagues in your field, and asking them to do the same. Also, please alert your students and your reference librarian. We are trying to use all possible strategies to inform everyone of this new resource . to reach as many people and institutions as possible, and thereby to make the discussions that occur in eOT as broadly based and diverse as possible.


Thank you for your assistance and we hope you enjoy this enhanced, more readily accessible version of ORAL TRADITION.


With best wishes,

John


John Miles Foley
W.H. Byler Endowed Chair in the Humanities
Curators' Professor of Classical Studies
and English
Director, Center for eResearch
Director, Center for Studies in Oral Tradition
64 McReynolds Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211 USA

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: MMario
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 10:55 AM

Does anyone else see a lot of irony in this situation?

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: Mr Happy
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 10:57 AM

Amway?

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: Effsee
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 10:59 AM

What a sort of "word of e-mouth", MM?

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: Bee
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 11:06 AM

Why on earth are they making the articles only available as downloaded pdfs? There is no greater bane (excepting videos) to the dialup consumer, as they take forever to get, and then you have them on your computer with whatever malware they may have brought along as baggage. Most academic sites which offer pdfs also offer the material in html format, so you can read them without downloading.

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 11:35 AM

Well, it is often the case that a Google search on key words will find the article, and Google will then allow you to read it as HTML. They do offer abstracts of the articles, so it might be possible to find a set of words for a search...but, yes, I wish they didn't make it so awkward.

(There are a lot of VERY arcane and narrow articles there, so it may be of use primarily to scholars, anyway....many of whom HAVE broadband at scools and such.)

The other solution, if you find one you REALLY want to look at, is to define your download directory as a 'temp' directory which is deleted when you close your browser and let it download as a background process.

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 12:32 PM

Let us suggest to them that as all horses have mouths they should talk to horses. This must therefore indicate the true meaning of the oral tradition, according to so many of the Mudcat's scholars on the meaning of the word "folk".

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 01:13 PM

Just a quick search suggests it is very heavily academic. Thanks for letting us know about it, though.

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 02:21 PM

There are several articles which add to our knowledge of the background of folk music. Especially interesting is "The Message of the American Folk Sermon" by Rosenberg. Included is an account of a Methodist and an Af-Am service from 1818.
An excerpt from a Lacy sermon of 1968 (same article) complements a recent thread about the song(s) "Deck of Cards" :

And God
Said there's two ways to go
Heaven
Or either hell
Mister Hoyle
Made a two-spot
He called it a deuce
God from Zion
And put it in the deck
And God
Made the father
Son and the Holy Ghost
Ain't God all right?
And Mister Hoyle
Made a three-spot
And called it a trey
...
I would like to see the rest of that sermon, which appeared in another article.
Oral Tradition, 1/3, 1986, 695-727.

A small part of the journal is on line, they are working on the rest.

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: Lynn W
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 05:10 PM

There is an interesting article by Lillis O'Laoire on the song tradition on Tory Island, with 2 mp3 recordings. (Volume 19, Number 2).

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 05:46 PM

Oral Tradition

I gave up on trying to download some articles. I have broadband etc. so I don't think the problem is my computer.

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: shepherdlass
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 04:47 PM

Q - I have the cheapest of the cheap broadband connection which should be desperately slow, but had absolutely no problems downloading articles from this journal.   Then again, I've only tried a few - were there particular problem editions?

Jack, thanks for posting the link - it's very interesting stuff. I'll forward it on to others as requested.

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 06:12 PM

Nogueira- Oral Tradition: 18 no. 2 is one that stays forever on the hourglass and just provides a blank. Arimstead, Marques, same issue, same problem. But Farr, same issue, Oral trad....., comes up right away.

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: jeffp
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 06:15 PM

Have you notified the owners of the site?

Subject: RE: Oral Tradition journal online
From: Lynn W
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 06:54 AM

I don't think it's a problem with the site - all these load straight away for me, on a 1mb broadband. They are only 2 or 3 pages, 50k (unless I have missed something?) I don't use Acrobat, I find Foxit PDF reader (freeware) quicker and easier - don't know if this has anything to do with the speed of download though.