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Oghuz bards sang the versed version of jazz: common themes with a lot of improvisation. They hardly could repeat their songs from the previous day. Their were the same songs which were never the same.


The essay generalized that to all oral culture, based on recordings of pre-literate Yugoslav bards.




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