| dc.description.abstract | ABSTRACT
The study explores performance strategies employed in Buganda folk tales and investigates the role of performance in promoting African oral tradition. In chapter one, the study gives an introduction and background of the study. Chapter two of the study reviews related literature on performance, content and audience in oral tradition. Chapter three discusses the various methods
of data collection employed by the researcher in aiding the entire study. Chapter four discusses in-depth the various folktales and performance strategies associated to them. Chapter five gives an overview of the entire study and further gives recommendations on the topic of study. The study discovers that performance involves engagement, audience, emotion; and performance literature therefore cannot be understood without its audience and social or religious context. The study explores that oral literature such as folktales involves the live presentation of an oral piece e.g. the narration of a story, singing and drama. In the performance of oral literature, the narrator has an opportunity to exploit the techniques of delivery that is to say, he uses gestures, variation of voices and the prevailing situation as an effective means of presenting his oral material improvisation and original composition. | en_US |
