Griots (Topical Term)
- Broader heading: Historians
- Broader heading: Storytellers
Work cat.: Jegede, T. African classical music and the griot tradition, 1994.
Britannica Macro: v. 24, p. 665; v. 26, p. 895.
New shorter Oxford English dictionary, 1993.
Random House (griot; a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc.)