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The 268 pages that link to Oral tradition, each with the reason it gives.

• Ancient Egyptian literatureRelated: Performance and oral circulation may have shaped stories later preserved in manuscripts.

• AvestanRelated: Avestan scriptures were transmitted orally before being written down.

• Early BuddhismRelated: Oral transmission complicates efforts to date and reconstruct early Buddhist teachings.

• Ibn IshaqRelated: Reports gathered by Ibn Ishaq circulated orally as well as in written forms.

• IfáNarrower topic: Ifá knowledge has been preserved and taught through oral performance.

• Old Norse literatureRelated: It shaped the material later recorded in medieval manuscripts.

• Piano pedagogyCompared with: It contrasts with notation-centered instruction and informs approaches based on listening and imitation.

• Print cultureCompared with: Oral transmission depends on performance and recollection rather than fixed printed copies.

• ŚrutiNarrower topic: Śruti’s preservation depends on oral transmission rather than an original written form.

• Textual transmissionCompared with: Unlike written copying, oral transmission depends on performance and recollection.

• Apostolic traditionRelated: Early Christian teachings circulated orally before and alongside their preservation in texts.

• Epic of SundiataNarrower topic: The epic’s versions are sustained through performance rather than a single fixed text.

• Hebrew poetryRelated: Repetition and sound patterns suit poetry composed, remembered, or performed aloud.

• Homeric epicsNarrower topic: The poems emerged from a culture in which epic stories circulated orally.

• Irish folkloreNarrower topic: Irish folklore is one regional body of traditions sustained through oral transmission.

• Jain AgamasRelated: Jain teachings were transmitted orally before and alongside their preservation in manuscripts.

• MirabaiRelated: Oral circulation helped preserve Mirabai’s songs while allowing lyrics and attributions to change.

• PanchatantraRelated: Its changing versions reflect storytelling and adaptation across languages and communities.

• Papias of HierapolisNarrower topic: Papias explicitly values accounts from living voices over information found only in books.

• SamavedaRelated: Memorized performance helped preserve Samavedic wording and melody before and alongside manuscripts.

• VöluspáRelated: The poem’s origins before its surviving manuscripts remain tied to questions of oral transmission.

• VyasaNarrower topic: The Vedas and epic traditions developed through oral transmission, complicating claims of single authorship.

• Yoruba musicNarrower topic: Songs, praise poetry, and learned drum patterns have often passed between performers orally.

• AtharvavedaRelated: Vedic reciters preserved the Atharvaveda through disciplined oral transmission.

• GathasRelated: The hymns were transmitted orally before their surviving manuscripts were produced.

• Historical mythRelated: Repeated oral retelling can blend remembered events with inherited narrative motifs.

• Jan DługoszRelated: Some narratives in Długosz’s history may preserve traditions whose origins cannot be independently verified.

• KabirRelated: Kabir’s songs circulated orally, complicating efforts to establish a single original text.

• MusicRelated: Oral transmission has carried musical practices across generations.

• Music printingCompared with: Many musical traditions circulated through performance rather than printed notation.

• Nursery rhymeNarrower topic: Many nursery rhymes changed as families passed them on without fixed texts.

• Poetry and politicsRelated: Spoken poetry can circulate political memory where print is scarce or controlled.

• Tall taleRelated: Repeated telling lets tall tales change while preserving their comic shape.

• CorridosNarrower topic: Before widespread recording, corridos traveled chiefly through live performance and retelling.

• Folk danceRelated: Repeated teaching and performance can pass dances across generations without fixed notation.

• Historical-critical methodRelated: It may explain how material circulated before appearing in written texts.

• HistoriesRelated: Herodotus preserves many reports that circulated by speech before entering his account.

• Icelandic literatureRelated: Oral transmission helps explain how older material could precede its surviving written versions.

• Literary fairy taleCompared with: It contrasts with the identifiable authorship central to this form.

• Romani musicRelated: Songs and performance practices have often passed between generations through performance and memory.

• Song LyricsNarrower topic: Many lyrics descend from songs preserved and altered through performance.

• Sutta PiṭakaRelated: Buddhist communities preserved and transmitted the discourses orally before and alongside written texts.

• TarRelated: Tar repertory has been passed between teachers and students through performance and imitation.

• The Secret History of the MongolsRelated: Its speeches, formulas, and verse are often discussed in relation to oral performance.

• YassaRelated: If Yassa rules circulated orally, their later written descriptions may not preserve a single fixed text.

• African oral literatureNarrower topic: African oral literature is one expressive part of this wider mode of cultural transmission.

• Al-BakriRelated: Reports transmitted orally helped inform descriptions of places al-Bakri had not visited.

• Al-MasudiRelated: Reports gathered from informants supplemented what Al-Masudi encountered personally.

• AladdinNarrower topic: Diyab’s storytelling connects Aladdin’s recorded version with oral narrative practices.

• Black women’s literatureRelated: Call-and-response, storytelling, and vernacular speech carry oral forms into written works.