La chanson populaire basque: transmission orale, transmission écrite

Haritschelhar, Jean

Publication year:

1986

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

0212-7016

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Summary

Oral tradition is the basis for the transmission of popular songs, although there is, however, also a written transmission that can be accomplished in two ways: the singer that knows how to read and write collects the songs that he recalls from oral tradition, or he uses a more ancient song that has already been collected in books