Griot
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griot-205-11371193
title:
Griot
text:
A griot is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician. Instead of writing history books, oral historians tell stories of the past that they have memorized. Sometimes there are families of historians, and the oral histories are passed down from one generation to the next. Telling a story out loud allows the speaker to use poetic and musical conventions that entertain an audience. This has contributed to many oral histories surviving for hundreds of years without b
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Storyteller, singer, or musician of oral tradition in West Africa
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griot
date created:
2004-02-18T23:08:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T13:07:15Z
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13
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