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Envelopes of Sound The Art of Oral History, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged

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J. Ronald Grele

Book Code: B4184

ISBN: 0-275-94184-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94184-0

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312 pages

Praeger Paperback

Publication: 9/30/1991

List Price: $36.95 (UK Sterling Price: £21.95)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Paperback

Trim Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4

Subjects:

History » Historiography

Endorsement From
Paul M. Buhle

Director, Oral History of the American Left

New York University

author of C.L.R.J.: The Artist as Revolutionary

: Ronald Grele is the dean of oral history in the United States, and Envelopes of Sound is the volume by which others will continue to be judged. Its contributions to methods and to meaning are still the place to start a serious discussion, whether with scholars or with high school students interviewing their grandparents.
Endorsement From
Sherna Berger Gluck

Director, Oral History

California State University, Long Beach
: Grele's early, groundbreaking book on oral history remains a classic. It continues to challenge the practitioner to be more self-conscious of and attentive to the nuances of the oral history interview.

Description: What is it that oral historians do? Prior to the publication of Envelopes of Sound oral history was regarded as an archival practice and interviews were considered the repositories of data. Envelopes shows that the interview is a series of dialectical relationships embedded in language, social practice, and historical imagination. It calls upon oral historians to begin to step back, to think seriously about what it is they do, and to ask what kind of documentation it is that they produce and how they can make it better. This volume merges theory and method through the analysis of the basic structures of the interview. It incorporates new thinking on the nature of narrative and conversation, and it covers new ground in examining fieldwork in a number of disciplines. While strongly theoretical, it also has direct application in conducting oral history interviews. It moves from relatively easy and simple considerations to increasingly complex issues. Envelopes of Sound can be used by a variety of students in discplines ranging from history and sociology to anthropology and contemporary literature, and it can be used in a variety of ways to raise issues on a number of theoretical levels.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Riffs and Improvisations: An Interview with Studs Terkel
It's Not the Song, It's the Singing: Panel Discussion on Oral History
Oral History as Poetry by Dennis Tedlock
Movement Without Aim
A Surmisable Variety: Interdisciplinarity and Oral History
Can Anyone Over Thirty Be Trusted? A Friendly Critique of Oral History
Listen to Their Voices: Two Case Studies in the Interpretation of Oral History Interviews
Private Memories and Public Presentation: The Art of Oral History

LC Card Number: 90-15496

LCC Class: D16

Dewey Class: 907.2


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