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Key Texts in Oral History and Contemporary History

Class at Faculty of Humanities |
YMO326

Syllabus

Selected titles

Frisch, M. A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History. New York 1990. ISBN 9780791401330.Grele, R. Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History. Chicago 1975. ISBN 9780275941840.Passerini, L. Fascism in Popular Memory: The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class. Cambridge 1987. ISBN 9780521108782.Perks, R. a Thomson, A. (ed.) The Oral History Reader (2nd edition). London - New York 2006. ISBN 9780415343039.Portelli, A. The Death of Luigi Trastelli, and Other Stories. New York 1991. ISBN 9780791404300.Ritchie, D. Doing Oral History (2nd edition). New York 2003. ISBN 9780199329335.Thompson, P. The Voice of the Past: Oral History (3rd edition). New York 2000. ISBN 9780199335466.Thomson, A. Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (2nd edition). Clayton VIC Australia: Monash University Publishing. ISBN 1921867582.Vaněk, M. a Mücke, P. Velvet Revolutions. An Oral History of Czech Society. Oxford 2016. ISBN 9780199342723.Vaněk, M. Around the Globe. Rethinking Oral History with Its Protagonists. Praha 2013. ISBN 9788024622262.Yow, V. R. Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2nd edition). Walnut Creek 2005. ISBN 9780759106550.

Please send the book report by e-mail to the designated examiner at least three weeks before the end of the exam period in which you want to complete this course.  

Annotation

The course aims to deepen students' knowledge and understanding of key texts of the oral-historical "canon". The student chooses one from the list of texts, which he/she processes according to the instructions of the designated examiner, and then defends his/her work at the oral colloquium.