African battle traditions of insult : verbal arts, song-poetry, and performance / / edited by Tanure Ojaide |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (323 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.10096 |
Collana | African Histories and Modernities |
Soggetto topico |
African diaspora
African languages - Rhetoric African poetry - History and criticism Exhortation (Rhetoric) Songs - Africa |
ISBN |
9783031156175
9783031156168 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: African Battle Traditions of Insult: Verbal Arts, Song-Poetry, and Performance—Tanure Ojaide -- Part I: African Origins -- 2. Battle by All Means: UrhoboUdje Song-Poetry and Performance—Tanure Ojaide -- 3. Halo: Music Text, Songs and Dance Performances in Ewe Folklore and Tradition—Honore Missihoun -- 4. Autobiographical Verbal Duels in Yoruba Polygamous Households—Adetayo Alabi -- 5. Shairiand Malumbano: The Tradition of Verbal Warfare in Swahili Literature—Mwenda Mbatiah -- 6. The Moral Authority of Battle Songs from Zimbabwe’s Shona Cultures: Context, Performance, and Audience of an Indigenous Knowledge System—Beauty Vambe -- Part II: Diaspora Manifestations -- 7. African-American Dozens—Michele Randolph and Maliek Lewis -- 8. Greek Letter Organization Step Show—Debra Smith -- 9. Battle Rap: An Exploration of Competitive Rhyming in Hip Hop —Matthew Oware -- 10. Fighting Words: Songs of Conflict, Censure, and Cussout in Trinidad and Tobago Carnival—Funso Aiyejina -- 11. “Oral Tradition and Cultures in Dialogue: OndjangoAngolano and Jongo da Serrinha”— Tonia Leigh Wind -- 12. “Stanzas and Sticks: Poetic and Physical Challenges in the Afro-Brazilian Culture of the Paraiba Valley, Rio de Janeiro”—Matthias RohrigAssuncao -- Part III: New Transformations -- 13. The Origin, Nature, Function, and Significance of Yabis—Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega. 14. Epistemic Recuperation and Contemporary Reconfiguration of the Verbal Battle Tradition in the Poetry of Kofi Anyidoho and Tanure Ojaide—Mathias IroroOrhero -- 15. Battle Songs as UtaneMiseve: Contestations over Political Power in Post 2017 Military Coup in Zimbabwe—Maurice TaonezviVambe -- 16. The source and nature of Bragging in Bongo fleva in Tanzania—Dunlop Ochieng. |
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Battle exhortation [[electronic resource] ] : the rhetoric of combat leadership / / Keith Yellin |
Autore | Yellin Keith <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia, S.C., : University of South Carolina Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.3/3041 |
Collana | Studies in rhetoric/communication |
Soggetto topico |
Command of troops
Morale Leadership Oratory Exhortation (Rhetoric) Combat - Psychological aspects - History Battle-cries Speeches, addresses, etc |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-57003-735-3
1-61117-356-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Bracing for combat: Previous consideration ; Defining exemplar: Mantinea, 418 B.C.E. ; Auditory dimensions ; Encouraging directions ; Summary -- 2. Indoctrination: Recruits all ; Fraternal standing in Plutarch's Spartan Mother ; Fraternal standing in Shakespeare's Henry V ; Ethos matters: George C. Scott's Patton ; Bill Murray's Parody in Stripes ; Summary -- 3. Tensions: Managing reputation: George Washington vs. Daniel Morgan ; Managing distance at Second Manassas and San Juan Heights ; Managing violence in the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts ; Managing love: Julius Caesar and the Tenth Legion ; Summary -- 4. Evolutions: Eisenhower on D-Day ; Ridgway's turn ; Slide into oblivion ; Return transformed: Schwarzkopf and Franks ; Differences by Combat Arm ; Summary -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453546603321 |
Yellin Keith <1964->
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Columbia, S.C., : University of South Carolina Press, c2008 | ||
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Battle exhortation [[electronic resource] ] : the rhetoric of combat leadership / / Keith Yellin |
Autore | Yellin Keith <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia, S.C., : University of South Carolina Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.3/3041 |
Collana | Studies in rhetoric/communication |
Soggetto topico |
Command of troops
Morale Leadership Oratory Exhortation (Rhetoric) Combat - Psychological aspects - History Battle-cries Speeches, addresses, etc |
ISBN |
1-57003-735-3
1-61117-356-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Bracing for combat: Previous consideration ; Defining exemplar: Mantinea, 418 B.C.E. ; Auditory dimensions ; Encouraging directions ; Summary -- 2. Indoctrination: Recruits all ; Fraternal standing in Plutarch's Spartan Mother ; Fraternal standing in Shakespeare's Henry V ; Ethos matters: George C. Scott's Patton ; Bill Murray's Parody in Stripes ; Summary -- 3. Tensions: Managing reputation: George Washington vs. Daniel Morgan ; Managing distance at Second Manassas and San Juan Heights ; Managing violence in the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts ; Managing love: Julius Caesar and the Tenth Legion ; Summary -- 4. Evolutions: Eisenhower on D-Day ; Ridgway's turn ; Slide into oblivion ; Return transformed: Schwarzkopf and Franks ; Differences by Combat Arm ; Summary -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779769703321 |
Yellin Keith <1964->
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Columbia, S.C., : University of South Carolina Press, c2008 | ||
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Battle exhortation [[electronic resource] ] : the rhetoric of combat leadership / / Keith Yellin |
Autore | Yellin Keith <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbia, S.C., : University of South Carolina Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.3/3041 |
Collana | Studies in rhetoric/communication |
Soggetto topico |
Command of troops
Morale Leadership Oratory Exhortation (Rhetoric) Combat - Psychological aspects - History Battle-cries Speeches, addresses, etc |
ISBN |
1-57003-735-3
1-61117-356-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Bracing for combat: Previous consideration ; Defining exemplar: Mantinea, 418 B.C.E. ; Auditory dimensions ; Encouraging directions ; Summary -- 2. Indoctrination: Recruits all ; Fraternal standing in Plutarch's Spartan Mother ; Fraternal standing in Shakespeare's Henry V ; Ethos matters: George C. Scott's Patton ; Bill Murray's Parody in Stripes ; Summary -- 3. Tensions: Managing reputation: George Washington vs. Daniel Morgan ; Managing distance at Second Manassas and San Juan Heights ; Managing violence in the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts ; Managing love: Julius Caesar and the Tenth Legion ; Summary -- 4. Evolutions: Eisenhower on D-Day ; Ridgway's turn ; Slide into oblivion ; Return transformed: Schwarzkopf and Franks ; Differences by Combat Arm ; Summary -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807497003321 |
Yellin Keith <1964->
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Exhortations to philosophy : the protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle / / James Henderson Collins |
Autore | Collins James Henderson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
Disciplina | 808.00938 |
Soggetto topico |
Rhetoric, Ancient
Exhortation (Rhetoric) |
ISBN |
0-19-026654-6
0-19-935861-3 0-19-935860-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Part one: Platonic protreptic. Levels of discourse in Plato's dialogues ; Narrative between Socrates and Crito ; From narrative to drama: inside the intradiegetic level ; Return to the extradiegetic level: metalepsis ; Creating consumers and consensus in the Protagoras -- Part two: Isocratean Protreptic. "Professional" protreptic: Against the Sophists ; Paraenetic protreptic: Tà àpxaĩa and exhorting young tyrants ; Judging protreptic: Antidosis, Panathenaicus -- Epilogue: Aristotelian protreptic and a stabilized genre. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996213769903316 |
Collins James Henderson
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
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