Finished reading Albert B. Lord’s The Singer of Tales: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/LORSIY.html. There was nothing new for me in this book – I’d got it all studying Literary Theory and having Frans de Valk as a teacher – but it was a joy to read the full 220 pages. And I’d say it’s compulsory reading for anybody studying performance/poetry and/or rap and poetry.

Related: The Milman Parry Collection, http://www.chs.harvard.edu/mpc/index.html.

A not very precise entry for Lord at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Lord.