Place, Writing, and Voice in Oral History

2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-62369-9
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 235 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 506 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Oral History

This book demonstrates how oral history can provide a valuable way of understanding locality, which is important in light of major issues facing the world today, including global environmental concerns.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trower, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Oral Tradition, Literature, and Locality Romanticizing the West Country: or, Hell-Hounds in Hard Cover and Pixies in Print; T.Fulford 'The romance of real life': Polwhele's Representation of the Literary Culture and Language of Cornwall; D.Moore Printed Voices: Dialect and Diversity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Lancashire; S.Edney Oral History and Local Environments Regional Writing and Oral History, from China Clay to Eden; S.Trower Wivenhoe Landscapes Remembered: From a Working River to Romanticized Nature; P.Thompson The Ouse Project: A Case Study of Applied Oral History; A.Holmes Witnesses to a Changing Landscape: From the Circumpolar to Central London; L.McCartney Audience and New Technologies Oral History as Site-Specific Practice: Locating the History of Performance Art in Wales; H.Roms & R.Edwards The Historical Hearing Aid: Located Oral History from the Listener's Perspective; T.Butler Mapping Memories of Displacement: Oral History, Memoryscapes, and Mobile Methodologies; S.High

Über Autor(innen)

SHELLEY TROWER Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK.