Abstract
Oral-Formulaic Theory and Performance-centered approaches (Ethnography of Speaking, Ethnopoetics) share a fundamental concern with the untextuality of traditional oral narrative. The present article seeks to explore that common territory by illustrating how performance serves as the enabling event, and tradition as the enabling referent, for the enactment and reception of verbal art. Examples are drawn chiefly from Serbo-Croatian Moslem epic and Serbian charms [bajanje], with some references to ancient Greek and Old English traditions.
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