Showing posts with label oral storytelling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oral storytelling. Show all posts

Thursday, June 2, 2011

China helps King Gesar storytellers to continue "Eastern Homer"

This is a wonderful story about China’s invested effort in keeping a treasured element of their culture and history alive by finding and funding oral storytellers to tell “The Epic of King Gesar.” Somehow I don’t think this would happen in the U. S. (one-man recitations of “The Odyssey” might not draw large crowds).