The Oral History Reader (Paperback, 3 ed)

INTRODUCTION TO THIRD EDITION PART I: Critical Developments Introduction: a history of oral history 1 Black history, oral history and genealogy Alex Haley 2 The voice of the past: oral history Paul Thompson 3 Oral history and Hard Times: a review essay Michael Frisch 4 What makes oral history different Alessandro Portelli 5 Politics and praxis in Canadian working-class oral history Joan Sangster 6 ‘Listening in the cold’: the practice of oral history in an Argentine working-class community Daniel James 7 What remains: reflections on crisis oral history Mark Cave 8 Oral history and the senses Paula Hamilton 9 'I just want to click on it to listen': oral history archives, orality and usability Doug Boyd PART II: Interviewing Introduction 10 Interviewing an interviewer Studs Terkel with Tony Parker 11 Interviewing techniques and strategies Valerie Yow 12 Learning to listen: interview techniques and analyses Kathryn Anderson and Dana C. Jack 13 Remembering in groups: negotiating between ‘individual’ and ‘collective’ memories Graham Smith 14 Interviewing the women of Phokeng: consciousness and gender, insider and outsider Belinda Bozzoli 15 Issues in cross-cultural interviewing: Japanese women in England Susan K Burton 16 Reticence in oral history interviews Lenore Layman 17 Toward an ethics of silence? Negotiating off-the-record events and identity in oral history Alexander Freund 18 Imaging family memories: my Mum, her photographs, our memories Janis Wilton 19 Interviewing in business and corporate environments: benefits and challenges Rob Perks PART III: Interpreting memories Introduction 20 Remembering survival: inside a Nazi slave-labour camp Christopher Browning 21 Surviving memory: truth and inaccuracy in Holocaust testimony Mark Roseman 22 Remembering a Vietnam War firefight: changing perspectives over time Fred Allison 23 Anzac Memories: putting popular memory theory into practice in Australia Alistair Thomson 24 Private life in Stalin’s Russia: narratives, memory and oral history Orlando Figes 25 Memory-work in Java: a cautionary tale Ann Laura Stoler, with Karen Strassler 26 Sex, 'silence' and audiotape: listening for female same-sex desire in Cuba Carrie Hamilton 27 ‘That’s not what I said’: interpretative conflict in oral narrative research Katherine Borland 28 Evidence, empathy and ethics: lessons from oral histories of the Klan Kathleen Blee 29 Remembering and reworking emotions: the reanalysis of emotion in an interview Joanna Bornat PART IV: Making histories Introduction 30 Voice, ear and text: words, meaning and transcription Francis Good 31 Editing oral history for publication Linda Shopes 32 The affective power of sound: oral history on radio Siobhan McHugh 33 Foundling Voices: placing oral history at the heart of an oral history exhibition Sarah Lowry and Alison Duke 34 Co-creating our story: making a documentary film Megan Webster and Noelia Gravotta 35 The historical hearing aid: located oral history from the listener's perspective Toby Butler 36 Mapping memories of displacement: oral history, memoryscapes, and mobile methodologies Steven High PART V: Advocacy and empowerment Introduction 37 Imagining communities: memory, loss, and resilience in post-apartheid Cape Town Sean Field 38 Sound, memory and dis/placement: exploring sound, song and performance as oral history in the Southern African borderlands Angela Impey 39 'You hear it in their voice':  photographs and cultural consolidation among Inuit youths and elders Carol Payne 40 ‘We know what the problem is’: using video and radio oral history to develop collaborative analysis of homelessness Daniel Kerr 41 Trying to be good: lessons in oral history and performance Alicia J. Rouverol 42 Oral history and new orthodoxies: narrative accounts in the history of learning disability Sheena Rolph and Jan Walmsley 43 The limits of oral history: ethics  and methodology amid highly politicized research settings Erin Jessee Select bibliography Useful contacts Index