Notes
1. Thomas A. Hale, Scribe, Griot and Novelist Narrative Interpreters of the Songhay Empire. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press/Center for African Studies, 1990), 161.
2. Ibid., 162.
3. Tzvetan Todorov, The Fantastic A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, (Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1975), 27.
4. Ibid., 31.
5. Ibid., 26.
6. Ibid., 41.
7. Ibid, 41.
8. Ibid., 41.
9. Miriam Webster Online www.miriamwebster.com
10. Ibid., www.miriamwebster.com
11. D. T. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (London: Longman Group Limited ,1977), 1.
12. Miriam Webster Online www.miriamwebster.com
13. Juan R. Yriart, Mory Kanté, http://www.morykante.com/biog/instruments.htm
14. Ibid., http://www.morykante.com/biog/instruments.html
15. Hale, Scribe, Griot and Novelist Narrative Interpreters of the Songhay Empire., 21.
16. Encyclopedia Briatannica Online. www.encyclopediabritannica.com
17. Ibid., www.encyclopediabritannicaonline.com
18. Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, The Oldest Irish Traditions (London: Cambridge University Press, 1964), 53.
19. "Irish Pipes," www.harpanddragon.com/uillean.htm
20. The Satsuma Biwa: A Radio 3 Interview with Ueda Junks transcribed, translated and summarized by E. Steenput, http://www.kampaibudokai.org/Biwa.htm
21. Ibid., http://www.kampaibudokai.org/Biwa.htm
22. Jackson, The Oldest Irish Traditions, 52.
23. Ibid., 53.
24. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali,1.
25. Ibid., 1.
26. Hale, Scribe, Griot and Novelist Narrative Interpreters of the Songhay Empire, 37.
27. Naine, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, 84.
28. Ibid., vii.
29. Ibid., vii.
30. Ibid., 1.
31. Keita: The Heritage of the Griot video
32. Joseph Dunn (trans.), The Ancient Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualange, The Cualnge Cattle-Raidd, (London: David Nutt, 1914), xi.
33. Ibid., xi.
34. Ibid., xvii, xviii.
35. Thomas Kinchella (translated by), The Sons of Unsech, (Chester Springs: Dufour Editions, 1960), 4-5..
36. Ibid., 3-4..
37. Ibid., 9.
38. Ibid., 19.
39. Ibid., 21.
40. Ibid., 21.
41. A.L. Sadler (translated by), The Ten Foot Hut and Tales of the Heike, (Sydney: Angus & Robertson Limited, 1928), 39.
42. Ibid., 41.
43. Dudley Andrew, Seminar Notes, 2009.
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