Griots

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95000901
- info:lc/authorities/sh95000901
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh95000901#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Broader Terms
- Historians
- Storytellers
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb12650538k
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://d-nb.info/gnd/4242664-9
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Jegede, T. African classical music and the griot tradition, 1994.
- found: Britannica Macro: v. 24, p. 665; v. 26, p. 895.
- found: New shorter Oxford English dictionary, 1993.
- found: Random House (griot; a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc.)
Change Notes
- 1995-02-03: new

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