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javeds

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Where in the Arab world do the customs and values of the desert tribes get publicized and performed as part of a contemporary national identity?
 
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What is the theory of formulaic composition? How does this theory relate to Sheikh Tahas performance of the Sirat Bani Hilal?
 
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Answer to Question 1

 The Arabian Peninsula

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 The theory of formulaic composition is the idea that improvisations of epic performances by poet-singers draw from a storehouse of familiar ideas and poetic formulas. Poets work orally from memorized texts to create rhymed verses of great length, texts taken from a vast repertory of traditional phrases, half-lines, and whole verses and retell the stories as each performance using the rhetoric and style of epic poetry. Worlds of Music citing Reynolds, 1996.
 The theory of formulaic composition is also useful for understanding the way a great many contemporary musicianslike blues or rap artists, for examplework as well.
 According to Dwight Reynolds who made the field recording.
 Sheikh Taha, the poet-singer of the excerpt of the epic Sirat Bani Hihbal, exemplified the theory of formulaic composition in his performance,




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Reply 2 on: Jul 25, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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