Contributor
Dunaway, David King.
Imprint:Nashville, Tenn. : American Association for State and Local History in cooperation with the Oral History Association, c1984.
Descriptionxxiii, 436 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:I. THE GATEWAY TO ORAL HISTORY: 1. Oral history/ Louis Starr -- 2. Oral history: how and why it was born ; The uses of oral history / Allan Nevins -- 3. History and the community / Paul Thompson -- 4. Some words on oral histories / Samuel Hand -- II. INTERPRETING AND DESIGNING ORAL HISTORY: 5. Reliability and validity in oral history / Alice Hoffman -- 6. Distinguishing the significant from the insignificant / Barbara Tuchman -- 7. Accuracy in oral history interviewing / Wiliam Cutler III -- 8. Oral history: an appreciation / William Moss -- 9. Oral tradition and historical methodology / Jan Vansina -- 10. A note on oral tradition and historical evidence / Ruth Finnegan -- 11. Oral history project design / David Lance -- 12. Introduction to Tom Rivers / Saul Benison -- 13. Theory, method, and oral history / Peter Friedlander -- 14. Oral history and the California wine industry / Charles Morrissey -- 15. Reflections on ethics / Amelia Fry -- III. ORAL HISTORY APPLIED: LOCAL, ETHNIC, FAMILY, AND WOMEN'S HISTORY: 16. Preface to The Saga of Coe Ridge / Lynwood Montell -- 17. The folklorist, the oral historian, and local history / Larry Danielson -- 18. Documenting diversity: the southern experience / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- 19. Oral history and the writing of ethnic history / Gary Okihiro -- Preface to All God's Dangers: the Life of Nate Shaw / Theodore Rosengarten -- 21. What's so special about women? / Sherna Gluck -- 22. Using oral history for a family history project / Linda Shopes -- 23. The search for generational memory / Tamara Hareven -- 24. Black history, oral history, and genealogy / Alex Haley -- IV. ORAL HISTORY AND RELATED DISCIPLINES: FOLKLORE, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND GERONTOLOGY: 25. The oral historian and the folklorist / Richard Dorson -- 26. Oral history as communicative event / Charles Joyner -- 27. The anthropological interview and the life history / Sidney Mintz -- 28. Three ways of reminiscence in theory and practice / Marianne Lo Gerfo -- 29. Oral historians and long-term memory / John Neuenschwander -- 30. Radio and the public use of oral history / David Dunaway -- V. ORAL HISTORY AND SCHOOLS: 31. Oral history for the student / James Hoopes -- 32. Oral history in the classroom / George Mehaffy, Thad Sitton, O.L. Davis, Jr. -- 33. Oral/aural history: in and out of the classroom / Don Cavallini -- 34. Introduction to The Foxfire Book / Eliot Wigginton -- 35. The implications of oral history for librarians / Martha Jane Zachert -- 36. The expanding role of the librarian in oral history / Willa Baum -- Soundscapes ; Interview with Imbert Orchart / W.J. Langlois.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.
