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Klinger-Vartabedian, Laurel; Cregan, Lori – 1992
Storytelling is a performance medium which is enhanced by the qualities indigenous to small towns: collective memory and common history. A type of narrative peculiar to small towns, the community-wide anecdote, is one example of storytelling. The transmittal of such tales is termed "endemic performance" because the retelling of the tales…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Research, Community Influence, Folk Culture
