Oral & Aural History

What is Oral History?
www.elon.edu/festle/oralhistory.htm
How to do History?
www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html#LINKS

More - What is Oral History? Early days of Oral History
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/oralhist/ohfwp.html
(Listen to stories)
http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/001005.oralhistory.html

Narrative Psychology http://web.lemoyne.edu/~hevern/nr-basic.html
Who are we? What does psychology understand by the notion of "self"? What is the nature of our identity? These are questions originally posed by philosophy, but now stand as prime issues within psychology. Narrative approaches to the study of identity and self focus upon questions such as

• Do individuals comprise one or more selves?
• Under what circumstances do people change?
• How do people come to self-knowledge? Can we, in fact, know who we are?
• To what extend do people adapt their personal stories to conform to culturally-derived types of personality?
• How is culture integrated into or constitutive of an individual's self?
• In constructing an autobiography, does an individual conceal more than she or he reveals?
• How accurate are memories of childhood? of family?

Intro to Interviewiewing: www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/IGSD/IQPHbook/ch11c.html
In-depth Interviewing: www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/000001172.htm Interviewing Chapter: www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-874204-5chap15.pdf
Radio Diaries: www.radiodiaries.org
How to Record: www.soundportraits.org/education/how_to_record/
Telephone Interviews/Quality: www.radiocollege.org/rc/couplers.html
Interviewing Protocol: www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ardelt/Aging/QualInt.htm

Listen/Read:
Diversity Exercise: www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/6.0/html/oralhistory.html
Studs Terkel - The Man Who Interview America
http://www.studsterkel.org/ghits.php
www.grandtimes.com/studs.html
http://www.chicagohs.org/collections/film.html#studs
(Terkel) http://talk.transom.org/WebX?14@231.hsa5amcwabb^4@.ee80e21/0

Sound Archives
soundprint.org (see Producer's guidelines)
www.americanradioworks.org (Topics)
soundportraits.org/education (Listen to Ghetto Life)
talkinghistory.org
Jonestown: www.npr.org/programs/specials/jonestown.html
Producer Profile:
www.albany.edu/faculty/gz580/documentaryproduction/authoring_in_sound.html