Narrative traditions told or sung before an audience, including the Chinese pingshu, a storytelling art with no musical accompaniment, and the Tamil villu paattu bow song in which a storyteller narrates while striking a bow. A genre belongs here when its cited article describes it as storytelling performed or recited for listeners. It excludes written romances and literary epics. The group is organised by form and tradition so that a reader can compare related genres side by side.
Storytelling and Oral Performance Traditions
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Tanci - Wikipedia
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a narrative form of song in China that alternates between verse and prose
Dastangoi - Wikipedia
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a 13th century Urdu oral storytelling art form
Akhyana (Wikipedia)
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a traditional musical theatre as well as medieval genre of Gujarati poetry
Bianwen (Wikipedia)
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was closely related to oral and visual performance
Cordel literature - Wikipedia
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Cordel literature (from the Portuguese term, literatura de cordel, literally "string literature", Portuguese pronunciation: [koʁˈdɛw]) are popular and inexpensively printed booklets or pamphlets containing folk novels, poems and songs.
Pingshu (Wikipedia)
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refers to the traditional Han Chinese performing art of storytelling with no musical accompaniment
Villu Paatu - Wikipedia
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The Villu paatu tradition is associated with the culture of southern Tamil Nadu, southern Kerala and North-East Sri Lanka.
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