Doing oral history / Donald A. Ritchie
- Bib ID:
- 600792
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ritchie, Donald A., 1945-
- Description:
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- New York, NY : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994
- xv, 265 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0805791280 (paperback)
- 0805791248
- Series:
- Twayne's oral history series ; no. 15.
- Summary:
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In this thorough guide to oral history theory, methods, and practice, Donald A. Ritchie, a prominent U.S. scholar in the field, synthesizes and builds on the extensive literature in manuals and fieldwork guides, to provide the first oral history handbook to address individual researchers as well as organized project teams (whether novices or veterans in the field), to cover videotaping as well as audio recording, and to support both teachers and archivists in their use of oral history records. Illustrating his guidelines with colorful examples from a wide range of fascinating projects, Ritchie offers clear, practical, and detailed advice on such issues as obtaining funding, staffing, and equipment; conducting interviews; publishing; videotaping; preserving materials; teaching oral history; and using oral histories in museums, on radio, in therapy, and in interactive video.
Throughout, Ritchie stimulates researchers to consider and focus on the unique aspects of their individual projects as well as the special rewards and results of the recordings they make. As he states at the outset, Ritchie's emphasis is on doing. His definitive guide provides all the practical advice and explanations contemporary oral historians require to turn their ideas and goals into action, and to create recordings that illuminate human experience for generations to come.
- Full contents:
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- 1. An Oral History of Our Time
- 2. Starting an Oral History Project
- 3. Conducting Interviews
- 4. Using Oral History in Research and Writing
- 5. Videotaping Oral History
- 6. Preserving Oral History in Archives and Libraries
- 7. Teaching Oral History
- 8. Presenting Oral History
- Appendix 1: Principles and Standards of the Oral History Association
- Appendix 2: Sample Legal Release Forms.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Oral history
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1994
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