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Rhythms of Sri Lankan Drums & Folk Songs by Piyasara and Chandrakanthi Shilpadhipathi, released 28 September 2011 1. SRI LANKAN DRUMS: An Introduction 2. Geta Bera Drumming (Playing Kandyan Drum) 3. Pahatha Rata Beraya (Low Country Drum) 4. Thammattama (Twin Drum, Tom Tom) 5. Udakkiya (Finger Drum) 6. Bummadiya (Clay Pot Drum) 7. Banku Rabana (Bench Tambourine) 8.
Argentine folk music, is also named as Argentina folklore music or Argentina folkloric musicJust as the country is divided into different regions according to its most important geographical and climatic features, you can also identify different cultural areas, each with characteristics of its own, although they may not be independent from each other: all of them are previous to the influences of the map of Argentine folklore, a map with divisions which do not coincide with geographical boundaries.Article of the guest columnist, para surdelsur.com Regions of Argentine Folklore. The Southernmost South, is the first site with information of Argentina, present in the Internet.
It was founded in 1996, by Mario E. Farber and Irene N.
Raizboim Farber. In 1998, the Ministry of Culture of the Nation, decided to declare of Cultural Interest, the Internet Web Site: 'The Southernmost South: Argentina, the country, its culture and its people', referring to the excellence of its contents. Our goal is to make known the cultural identity of Argentina, inside and outside our territory.
Folk literature, also called folklore or oral tradition, the lore (traditional knowledge and beliefs) of having no written language. It is transmitted by and consists, as does written, of both prose and verse narratives, poems and songs, dramas, rituals, proverbs, riddles, and the like. Nearly all known peoples, now or in the past, have produced it.Until about 4000 bce all literature was oral, but, beginning in the years between 4000 and 3000 bce, writing developed both in Egypt and in the Mesopotamian civilization at Sumer. From that time on there are records not only of practical matters such as law and business but increasingly of written literature. Facts Matter. Support the truth and unlock all of Britannica’s content.The nature of oral traditionsNor can any evolution in folk literature or any overall developments be spoken of explicitly.
Each group of people, no matter how small or large, has handled its folk literature in its own way. Depending as it does upon the transmission from person to person and being subject to the skill or the lack of skill of those who pass it on and to the many influences, physical or social, that consciously or unconsciously affect a tradition, what may be observed is a history of continual change. An item of folk literature sometimes shows relative stability and sometimes undergoes drastic transformations. If these changes are looked at from a modern Western point of view, judgments can be made as to whether they are on the whole favourable or unfavourable. But it must be remembered that the folk listening to or participating in its oral literature have completely different standards from those of their interpreters.
Nevertheless, two directions in this continually changing human movement may be observed. Occasionally a talented or tale-teller, or perhaps a group of them, may develop techniques that result in an improvement over the course of time from any point of view and in the actual development of a new literary form. On the other hand, many items of folk literature, because of historic movements or overwhelming foreign influences or the mere lack of skillful practitioners of the tradition, become less and less important, and occasionally die out from the oral repertory. The details of such changes have been of great interest to all students of folk literature.The beginnings of written literature in Sumer and Egypt 5,000 or 6,000 years ago took place in a world that knew only folk literature.
During the millennia since then written literature has been surrounded and sometimes all but overwhelmed by the humbler activity of the unlettered. The emergence of the and his carefully preserved manuscript came about slowly and uncertainly, and only in a few places initially—the literary authorship that flourished in the Athens of Pericles or the Jerusalem of the represented only a very small part of the world of their time. Nearly everywhere else the oral storyteller or singer was dominant, and all of what is called literary expression was carried in the memory of the folk, and especially of gifted narrators.All societies have produced some men and women of great natural endowments—shamans, priests, rulers, and warriors—and from these has come the greatest stimulus everywhere toward producing and listening to, tales, and songs. To these the common man has listened to such effect that sometimes he himself has become a bard.
And kings and councillors, still without benefit of writing, have sat enthralled as he entertained them at their banquets.