Griots may be the chroniclers of an important family or of a group of people — like the Bambara hunters’ griot — or itinerant poets and musicians who extol the praises of the person who has hired them for a special festivity.
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Griot
/ˈɡɹi.oʊ/
Synonyms for "griot" (4 found)
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Noun(1 words)
cultural custodian
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Noun(1 words)
oral historian
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Noun(2 words)
praise singerstoryteller
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6 entriesWest African griotgriot oral traditiongriot performancegriot praise poetrygriot repertoiregriot tradition
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When ethnographers are asked to read their works to gatherings of Songhay, elders, they, too, are considered griots. Ethnographers, however, usually consider themselves scholars, not griots. They prepare themselves for their life's work in a manner altogether different from that of the griot.
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I decided that it would be better for a griot to take us back into the legend, rather than me, a contemporary man. Griots have deeply marked me. I already narrated my first film, Ta Dona, in the same way that a griot would have.
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Yet the critics of writing weren’t entirely wrong. In oral cultures, bards carried epics in their heads; griots could reel off centuries of genealogy on demand.
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