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Fieldworkers record who told a story and on what day not just the words Folklore collectors now ask permission before writing down a song someone has just sung for them Only families holding the old fishing rights may tell the tale of the drowned boat Oral epics are taught in heritage classes to children who no longer speak the language The right to recite certain epics passes down one griot bloodline and no outsider may perform them Fishermen's own names for the reef are missing from the heritage file When a language dies which ceremonies go silent with it Why does Scottish puirt a beul mouth music exist when instruments are available? What happens when a diaspora keeps the folk dance but loses its music? What formulaic epithets like swift footed Achilles are doing in the metre A storyteller who gets no response from the audience is judged to have failed What a grandmother transmits when she teaches a granddaughter a song How many nights does it take to sing the whole Mahabharata Transcribing dialect faithfully or readably is the archive's real dilemma The family story retold every year and how it has quietly changed

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