Below are some sources to give you a start on orality. I’ve arranged them in a suggested watching/reading order with some introductory material before more technical sources which will give you jumping off points for further research.

  • Modern Memory, Ancient Methods. TEDxMelbourne. Melbourne, Australia, 2018. https://www.ted.com/talks/lynne_kelly_modern_memory_ancient_methods.
  • Kelly, Lynne. The Memory Code. Allen & Unwin, 2016.
  • Kelly, Lynne. Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory and the Transmission of Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107444973.
  • Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. Taylor & Francis, 2007.
  • Parry, Milman, and Adam Parry. The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. Oxford University Press, 1971.
  • Neale, Margo, and Lynne Kelly. Songlines: The Power and Promise. First Knowledges, 1.0. Thames & Hudson, 2020.