Doing oral history / Donald A. Ritchie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ritchie, Donald A., 1945- author.

Series:

Oxford oral history series

Oxford Oral History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oral history.

Oral history--Methodology.

Historiography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community. This basic manual offers detailed advice for setting up an oral history project, conducting interviews, and using oral history for research, making video recordings, preserving oral history collections in archives and libraries, and teaching and presenting oral history. This new, third edition thoroughly covers recent developments in digital audio and video recording technology, which have significantly altered the practice of oral history, making it easier both to produce and to disseminate quality recordings. It demonstrates how oral historians are discovering endless possibilities for posting interviews, transcripts, and recordings on the Internet for worldwide distribution. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 An Oral History of Our Time 1

Memory and Oral History 14

Public History and Oral History 28

2 Setting Up an Oral History Project 35

Funding and Staffing 38

Equipment 45

Processing 51

Legal Concerns 62

Archiving and the Internet 69

3 Conducting Interviews 73

Preparation for the Interview 74

Setting up the Interview 77

Conducting the Interview 79

Concluding the Interview 101

4 Using Oral History in Research and Writing 103

Oral Evidence 110

Theory 122

Publishing Oral History 129

5 Video Oral History 137

Setting and Equipment 142

Processing and Preserving Video Recordings 148

Video Documentaries, Exhibits, and the Internet 154

6 Preserving Oral History in Archives and Libraries 161

Managing Oral History Collections 167

Sound Recordings 171

Digital Oral Archives 177

Donated Interviews 183

Legal Considerations 186

Public Outreach 189

7 Teaching Oral History 193

Oral History in Elementary and Secondary Schools 199

Oral History in Undergraduate and Graduate Education 216

Institutional Review Boards 227

8 Presenting Oral History 234

Oral History Websites 235

Community History 242

Family Interviewing 252

Therapeutic Uses of Oral History 254

Museums and Historic Sites 258

Radio and Television 264

Performance 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Ritchie, Donald A., 1945- Doing oral history.

ISBN:

9780199329342

OCLC:

891381577

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.