Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First CenturyGrounded in the intellectual legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry (19021935) and Albert Lord (19121991), Singers and Tales in the Twenty First Century gathers reflections on what the study of oral poetry might mean today across diverse poetic traditions, especially in light of ongoing global transformations that have dramatically reshaped and destabilized the very notion of tradition. This collection of essays spans