Place, writing, and voice in oral history
By: Shelley Trower
Series: Palgrave studies in oral history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780230623699
Subjects: HISTORY / Social History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions; Oral history; HISTORY / Modern / General; Aural history
Description: "Oral history provides a valuable way of understanding locality. This volume considers the importance of working closely with the specifics of place in the context of global issues including environmental concerns and new communication technologies. Developing interdisciplinary connections between oral history, literary studies, and geography, essays in this collection focus on how both oral and written narratives engage with particular places, ranging from Dartmoor and "the clay country" to the River Ouse, from London to the polar regions. Further, this collection considers how oral history interviews themselves--the sounds of voices--are recorded and listened to in particular places: on walks, in theatres, at home on the internet. In doing so, this volume highlights the importance of thinking methodically about place not only in terms of the content of interviews, but also their creation, dissemination, and reception"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Oral Tradition, Literature, and Locality * Romanticizing the West Country: or, Hell-Hounds in Hard Cover and Pixies in Print; title: Tim Fulford * 'The romance of real life': Polwhele's Representation of the Literary Culture and Language of Cornwall; title: Dafydd Moore * Printed Voices: Dialect and Diversity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Lancashire; title: Sue Edney * Oral History and Local Environments * Regional Writing and Oral History, from China Clay to Eden; title: Shelley Trower * Wivenhoe Landscapes Remembered: From a Working River to Romanticized Nature; title: Paul Thompson * The Ouse Project: A Case Study of Applied Oral History; title: Andrew Holmes * Witnesses to a Changing Landscape: From the Circumpolar to Central London; title: Leslie McCartney * Audience and New Technologies * Oral History as Site-Specific Practice: Locating the History of Performance Art in Wales; title: Heike Roms and Rebecca Edwards * The Historical Hearing Aid: Located Oral History from the Listener's Perspective; title: Toby Butler * Mapping Memories of Displacement: Oral History, Memoryscapes, and Mobile Methodologies; title: Steven High.