How music transmitted and conserved history from generation to generation?

by CanResbero

I was hearing Sabaton which is a band that does songs about historical events during major wars and someone commented "they are like modern bards".

And i started doing some research about bards and troubadours and that kind of stuff but there is very little information about them.

And i would like to find any exemple of some of the writings and stuff they composed, so if anyone knows where I can get more content about them it would be awesome.

And also if anyones knows something even older that bards that illustrates how music can transmit real or fictive/mytical histories it would be awesome

Kugelfang52

Sorry, we don't allow "example seeking" questions. It's not that your question was bad; it's that these kinds of questions tend to produce threads that are collections of disjointed, partial, inadequate responses. If you have a question about a specific historical event, period, or person, feel free to rewrite your question and submit it again. If you don't want to rewrite it, you might try submitting it to /r/history, /r/askhistory, or /r/tellmeafact.

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