Basque oral poetry championship

dc.contributor.author	Foley, John Miles	eng
dc.date.issued	2007-10	eng
dc.description	Imagine selling 13,025 tickets for oral poetry. Imagine further an entire 6-7 hours of live performances broadcast on regional television as they happen, with excerpts, summaries, and expert commentary on national television. Imagine a one-day event--the final act in a multistage, four-year, Olympian drama of qualification and elimination--galvanizing ethnic, national identity to a degree unparalleled virtually anywhere in the world. Imagine the confluence of all of these phenomena and you have the Bertsolari Txapelketa,1 the national championship of bertsolaritza, the improvised contest poetry from Basque oral tradition, which took place in Barakaldo, Spain, on December 18th, 2005.	eng
dc.description	Note: Basque Special Issue	eng
dc.format.extent	9 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 22/2 (2007): 3-11.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/69313
dc.language	English	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.title	Basque oral poetry championship	eng
dc.type	Article	eng