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Beginning from the end : strategies of composition in lyrical improvisation with end rhyme

Article: English. Online Library collection
Author(s)
Sykäri, Venla
Title
Beginning from the end : strategies of composition in lyrical improvisation with end rhyme / Venla Sykäri
In
Oral Tradition, Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 1986-, 123-154
Subjects
Freestyle Rap ; Glosa ; Mantinádes [Μαντινάδα]
Content
Testu osoa
Other authors
University of Helsinki
Type of material
Article
ISBN / ISSN
1542-4308
Notes
Bibliografia: 147-154 or.
This essay examines the basic principles of constructing improvised verses with end rhyme in three contemporary cultures: mandinadhes, Mallorcan gloses, and Finnish freestyle rap. This study is based on ethnographic interviews, in which improvisers analyze their methods of composition. This knowledge is complemented by a textual analysis of examples of performances in the given traditions. Sykäri shows that competent improvisers master complex cognitive methods when they create their lines that end with the poetic device of end rhyme, and in particular when they structure the discourse so that the strong arguments are situated at the end of the structural unit of composition. This “reversed” method witnesses a tendency to use parallel phonic patterns in a way that is largely the opposite of those employed with semantic (or canonical) parallelism.