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* Indicates this book is cited in almost every other book and many journal articles on oral

history.

** Often mentioned as very important book in the field of oral history.

*Willa K. Baum, Transcribing and Editing Oral Historyby Willa K. Baum, American

Association for State and Local History; Nashville, 1977.(This book includes a 33 1/3 RPM record.) I think this book is the most referenced

source for preparation of transcripts. Has some amusing examples of mistranscription;

however, the Pryor Center can provide some of those as well.

Burke, Peter, editor, New Perspectives on Historical Writing; Pennsylvania State University

Press, 1991.

Charlton, Thomas L., Myers, Lois E., and Sharpless, Rebecca, editors, Handbook of Oral

History; AltaMira Press, 2006.

Note: Non-circulating ref D16.14.H36 2006; This book was reproduced in two volumes,

both of which I obtained both through interlibrary loan.History of Oral History Foundations and Methodology, 2007

Thinking about Oral History Theories and Applications, 2008

Clifford, James and Marcus, George E., editors, Writing Culture The Poetics and Politics of

Ethnography; University of California Press, 1986.

Coffman, Erving, Forms of Talk; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.

Davis, Cullom, Back, Katherine, and MacLean, Kay, Oral History From Tape to Type;

American Library Association, 1977.

Fabian, Johannes, Ethnography as Commentary Writing from the Virtual Archive; Duke

University Press, 2008.

Ives, Edward D., The Tape Recorded Interview A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and

Oral History; the University of Tennessee Press, 1974.

Lanman, Barry A. and Wendling, Laura M., written and edited by, Preparing the Next

Generation of Oral Historians An Anthologhy of Oral History Education; AltaMiraPress,

2006.

McMahan, Eva, Elite Oral History Discourse A Study of Cooperation and Coherence;

University of Alabama Press, 1989.

Perks, Robert and Thomson, Alistair, editors, The Oral History Reader, edited by Robert

Perks and Alistair Thomson; published by Routledge, 1998.

**Portelli, Alessandro, The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories Form and Meaning inOral History; State University of New York Press, Albany, 1991.

The Battle of Valle Giulia Oral History and the Art of Dialogue; University of Wisconsin

Press, 1997.

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Powers, Willow Roberts Transcription Techniques for the Spoken Wordby Willow RobertsPowers; AltaMira Press, 2006

**Ritchie, Donald A., Doing Oral History, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2003.

*Thompson, Paul, The Voice of the Past Oral History; Third Edition, Oxford University

Press, 2000.

*Yow, Valerie Raleigh, Recording Oral History A Guide for the Humanities and SocialSciences, Second Edition; published by AltaMira Press, 2005.

Zusman, Angela, Story Bridges: A Guide for Conducting Intergenerational Oral HistoryProjects (Practicing Oral History);Left Coast Press, 2010.