history, customs, and spiritual and social expectations passed on through spoken word from generation to generation.
a community's cultural and historical background preserved and passed on from one generation to the next in spoken stories and song, as distinct from being written down
The passing on of oral culture, tradition, and history from one generation to the next, through stories told time and again. Oral tradition did not, and does not, cease to exist with the rise of literacy; it co-exists, especially in cultures that retain a strong sense of oral dissemination of information and culture.
The body of "folk" materials transmitted and preserved across generations by word of mouth and collective memory. This form of preservation was especially important in preliterate societies. Myths, legends, ballads, proverbs, and folk songs were performed aloud (rather than read) by persons who had committed them to memory, often following certain pat formulas suitable for oral performance but also occasionally embellishing them in response to a fugitive inspiration or a particular audience.
A statement, belief, legend, or custom that is handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth.
an African practice of passing down information by word of mouth.
The tradition of songs, stories, chants, and performances that comprised pre-Columbian Native American literature (actually "traditions," for each community had its own set of traditions). "Literature" is problematic here, however, insofar as these cultural events were never written down, frequently sacred, and always community building. Many contemporary Native American writers employ themes and structures from the oral tradition in order to keep those traditions alive.
Passing cultural wisdom and values from one person or one generation to another through oral storytelling. Unlike written communication, the oral tradition necessarily involves person-to-person contact and is thus by definition community based and performative. The oral tradition was an early stage in virtually every language system and is still prominent in Native American and Chicano cultures, among others.
The passing on to new generations the culture of the older generation through storytelling, singing, chanting or other rituals, not by the use of modern technologies.
formal, official record of the history of a people but not written down
a story or belief held by Muslims that were memorized and passed on to each generation ( mouth to mouth )
Customs, opinions, beliefs, and history passed from generation to generation by means of conversation or story telling.
The spoken relation and preservation, from one generation to the next, of a people's cultural history and ancestry, often by a storyteller in narrative form.
Transmission by word of mouth; tradition passed down through generations; verbal folk tradition.
stories, songs, and poems about the history and heritage of a people that are passed from generation to generation by word of mouth.
Established ancient history that is passed down verbally from generation to generation.
Material passed down through generations by word of mouth before taking fixed written form.
Oral tradition or oral culture is a way of transmitting history, literature or law from one generation to the next in a civilization without a writing system. An example that combined aspects of oral literature and oral history, before eventually being set down in writing, is the Homeric epic poetry of the Iliad and the Odyssey. In a general sense, "oral tradition" refers to the transmission of cultural material through vocal utterance, and was long held to be a key descriptor of folklore (a criterion no longer rigidly held by all folklorists).