Elite Oral History Discourse
Elite Oral History Discourse

Author: Eva M. McMahan

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0817358544

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Over the past thirty years, oral history has found increasing favor among social scientists and humanists, with scholars “rediscovering” the oral interview as a valuable method for obtaining information about the daily realities and historical consciousness of people, their histories, and their culture. One primary issue is the question of how the communicative performances of the interviewer and narrator jointly influence the interview. Using methods of conversation/discourse analysis, the author describes the collaborative processes that enable interviewers and narrators to interact successfully in the interview context.

Oral History and Public Memories
Oral History and Public Memories

Author: Paula Hamilton

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2009-08-21

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1592131425

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Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a variety of venues and media around the world. Readers will learn, for example, of oral history based efforts to reclaim community memory in post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa; of the role of personal testimony in changing public understanding of Japanese American history in the American West; of oral history's value in mapping heritage sites important to Australia's Aboriginal population; and of the way an oral history project with homeless people in Cleveland, Ohio became a tool for popular education. Taken together, these original essays link the well established practice of oral history to the burgeoning field of memory studies.

Handbook of Oral History
Handbook of Oral History

Author: Thomas Lee Charlton

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 9780759102293

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In recent decades, oral history has matured into an established field of critical importance to historians and social scientists alike. Handbook of Oral History captures the current state-of-the-art, identifies major strands of intellectual development, and predicts key directions for future growth in theory, research, and application.

Thinking about Oral History
Thinking about Oral History

Author: Thomas Lee Charlton

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780759110915

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Part III and IV of Handbook of Oral History, now available in paper for classroom use.

History of Oral History
History of Oral History

Author: Leslie Roy Ballard

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2007-04-09

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 075911384X

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Gathered here are parts I and II of the Handbook of Oral History, which set the benchmark for knowledge of the field. The eminent contributors discuss the history and methodologies of a field that once was the domain of history scholars who were responding to trends within the academy, but which has increasingly become democratized and widely used outside the realm of historical research. This handbook will be both a traveling guide and essential touchstone for anyone fascinated by this dynamic and expanding discipline.

The Oral History Reader
The Oral History Reader

Author: Robert Perks

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 0415133521

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Arranged in five thematic parts, "The Oral History Reader" covers key debates in the post-war development of oral history.

Jazz Among the Discourses
Jazz Among the Discourses

Author: Krin Gabbard

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780822315964

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Employing modes of criticism and theory that have transformed study in the humanities, this title addresses questions seldom if ever raised in jazz writing: What are the implications of building jazz history around the medium of the phonograph record? Why did jazz writers first make the claim that jazz is an art?

Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies
Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies

Author: Chris Fitzgerald

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1000823652

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Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies guides the reader through the process of sourcing a relevant oral history archive for linguistic analysis, constructing a representative corpus out of this archive and analysing this using corpus tools. Focusing on the oral history archive at the Irish Bureau of Military History, this book shows how corpus linguistics can illuminate themes worthy of investigation that may otherwise remain hidden. This is exemplified through the investigation of how certainty is constructed in this archive through a number of expressions and which serves as a template for both how oral history can aid linguistic understanding and how corpus linguistics can contribute to oral history investigation. Highlighting why oral history archives are worthy of linguistic analysis and showing what readers can gain from blending linguistic tools and competencies with oral history data, this book is essential reading for all researchers and students working in the areas of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and oral history.

Doing Oral History
Doing Oral History

Author: Donald A. Ritchie

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780195154344

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Contains chapters on the discipline of oral history, especially as it relates to public history; starting an oral history project, including funding, staffing, equipment, processing, and legal concerns; conducting interviews; using oral history in research and writing, including publishing; videotaping oral history; and more.

Oral History for the Qualitative Researcher
Oral History for the Qualitative Researcher

Author: Valerie J. Janesick

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2010-03-18

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1606235575

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Oral history is a particularly useful way to capture ordinary people's lived experiences. This innovative book introduces the full array of oral history research methods and invites students and qualitative researchers to try them out in their own work. Using choreography as an organizing metaphor, the author presents creative strategies for collecting, representing, analyzing, and interpreting oral history data. Instructive exercises and activities help readers develop specific skills, such as nonparticipant observation, interviewing, and writing, with a special section on creating found data poems from interview transcripts. Also covered are uses of journals, court transcripts, and other documents; Internet resources, such as social networking sites; and photography and video. Emphasizing a social justice perspective, the book includes excerpts of oral histories from 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, among other detailed case examples.