Sentences with phrase «on orality»

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Some years ago, commenting on the seminal work of Innis, McLuhan, Havelock, Ong and others, I suggested that television and radio in communicating through what Ong called Secondary Orality, had created a world of Secondary Tribalism (Phelan 1980).

«This new orality has striking resemblances to the old in its participatory mystique, its fostering of a communal sense, its concentration on the present moment, and even in its use of formulas....

The Scholar Eric A. Havelock believes that the transition in Greece from orality to literacy wiped out the need for people to develop a highly accurate memory based on speech, and thus eliminated the need for communicators to express themselves in language that could easily be memorized.

In many cases homiletical texts recommend a method of reading scriptures aloud to gain an experiential perspective on biblical texts and also to understand their bases in orality.

Jafa's new video work, A Kingdom Come, serves up a visual paean to Black Christian worship ceremonies, tropes and rituals, and builds on Jafa's anthological obsessions with sequencing flows of African American orality, music, stagecraft, and unbridled, electrifying performance into gripping cinematic tapestries.

The city of Doha has historically been a rich palimpsest of cultures — particularly those of South Asia — and the focus of this research - based curatorial project will be on the ways in which artists experiences and identities will touch upon multivalent narratives, storytelling, and orality.

Working with film, video, installation, photography, and prints, Khalili's practice articulates language, subjectivity, orality, and geographical explorations, focusing on the representation of subjects rendered invisible by the nation - state.