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Abstract
This paper is based on the assumption that in African oral societies, the
use of creative fiction in the speech arts was intended to dramatize and to
de-dramatize history. The hake music, formerly practiced by the eʋe of
the south-east of Togo, appears, because of its double vocation to
dramatize and to de-dramatize social happenings, as a typical model of
oral art, in African oral societies. Through the study of hake music, this
paper has found that, in these societies, the practical function of oral art
was to avoid, within the limits of what is possible, the destruction of
clans. For, the oral aesthetic mannerism was designed, instead of war, to
express social evils through words and to have words update history.
Key-words: oral art, speech game, fiction, dramatization, dedramatization,
music, hake.
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