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Summary:

The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, 'classic' articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most significant developments in oral history in the last decade to bring this invaluable text up to date, with new pieces on emotions and the senses, on crisis oral history, current thinking around traumatic memory, the impact of digital mobile technologies, and how oral history is being used in public contexts, with more international examples to draw in work from North and South America, Britain and Europe, Australasia, Asia and Africa.

Table of Contents:

• Critical developments : introduction. Black history, oral history and genealogy / Alex Haley ; The voice of the past : oral history / Paul Thompson ; Oral history and hard times : a review essay / Michael Frisch ; What makes oral history different / Alessandro Portelli ; Politics and praxis in Canadian working-class oral history / Joan Sangster ; 'Listening in the cold' : the practice of oral history in an Argentine working-class community / Daniel James ; What remains : reflections on crisis oral history / Mark Cave ; Oral history and the senses / Paula Hamilton ; 'I just want to click on it to listen' : oral history archives, orality and usability / Douglas A. Boyd
• Interviewing. Interviewing an interviewer / Studs Terkel with Tony Parker ; Interviewing techniques and strategies / Valerie Yow ; Learning to listen : interview techniques and analysis / Kathryn Anderson and Dana C. Jack ; Remembering in groups : negotiating between 'individual' and 'collective' memories / Graham Smith ; Interviewing the women of Phokeng : consciousness and gender, insider and outsider / Belinda Bozzoli ; Issues in cross-cultural interviewing : Japanese women in England / Susan K. Burton ; Reticence in oral history interviews / Lenore Layman ; Toward an ethics of silence? negotiating off-the-record events and identity in oral history / Alexander Freund ; Imaging family memories : my mum, her photographs, our memories / Janis Wilton ; Interviewing in business and corporate environments : benefits and challenges / Rob Perks
• Interpreting memories. Remembering survival : inside a Nazi slave-labor camp / Christopher R. Browning ; Surviving memory : truth and inaccuracy in Holocaust testimony / Mark Roseman ; Remembering a Vietnam War firefight : changing perspectives over time / Fred Allison ; Anzac memories : putting popular memory theory into practice in Australia / Alistair Thomson ; Private life in Stalin's Russia : narratives, memory and oral history / Orlando Figes ; Memory work in Java : a cautionary tale / Ann Laura Stoler with Karen Strassler ; Sex, 'silence' and audiotape : listening for female same-sex desire in Cuba / Carrie Hamilton ; 'That's not what I said' : interpretative conflict in oral narrative research / Katherine Borland ; Evidence, empathy and ethics : lessons from oral histories of the Klan / Kathleen Blee ; Remembering and reworking emotions : the reanalysis of emotion in an interview / Joanna Bornat
• Making histories. Voice, ear and text : words, meaning and transcription / Francis Good ; Editing oral history for publication / Linda Shopes ; The affective power of sound : oral history on radio / Siobhán McHugh ; Foundling voices : placing oral history at the heart of an oral history exhibition / Sarah Lowry and Alison Duke ; Co-creating our story : making a documentary film / Megan Webster and Noelia Gravotta ; The historical hearing aid : located oral history from the listener's perspective / Toby Butler ; Mapping memories of displacement : oral history, memoryscapes and mobile methodologies / Steven Hugh
• Advocacy and empowerment. Imagining communities : memory, loss and resilience in post-apartheid Cape Town / Sean Field ; Sound, memory and dis/placement : exploring sound, song and performance as oral history in the southern African borderlands / Angela Impey ; 'You hear it in their voice' : photographs and cultural consolidation among Inuit youths and elders / Carol Payne ; 'We know what the problem is' : using video and radio oral history to develop collaborative analysis of homelessness / Daniel Kerr ; Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance / Alicia J. Rouverol ; Oral history and new orthodoxies : narrative accounts in the history of learning disability / Sheena Rolph and Jan Walmsley ; The limits of oral history : ethics and methodology amid highly politicized research settings / Erin Jessee.

Contributors:

Perks, Robert , editor

Thomson, Alistair , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Oral History Reader (Third edition; London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2016 — ISBN 9780415707329; LCCN 2015016095; OCLC Number 920469609)

Related Series:

Routledge readers in history

Subjects:

Oral history

General Notes:

Previous edition: 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [689]-695) and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed August 28, 2018).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 721 pages) : illustrations.

Call Numbers:

D16.14 .O735 2016eb

ISBNs:

9781317371311 (electronic book)
1317371313 (electronic book)
9781315671833 (electronic book)
1315671832 (electronic book)
9781317371328 (electronic book)
1317371321 (electronic book)
9781317371304 (e-book, Mobi)
1317371305 (e-book, Mobi)
9780415707329 (hardback) [Invalid]
0415707323 (hardback) [Invalid]
9780415707336 (paperback) [Invalid]
0415707331 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2015016095

OCLC Numbers:

934271257