- Title
- History-in-the-round: oral history, memory and praxis for small scale oral history projects
- Creator
- May, Josephine
- Relation
- Oral History Education: Dialogue with the Past p. 27-41
- Publisher
- Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- This chapter outlines the theoretical and methodological aspects for a style of oral history that places the voices of the tellers at the centre of the method, privileging the performative aspects of oral history research. This approach is called 'history-in-the-round' and it likens oral history research to theatre production. History-in-the-round is a term adapted from a theatrical approach called theatre-in-the-round, which, although ancient in style, became popular in Western drama in the 1950s. The characteristics of theatre-in-the-round provide a way to conceptualise the qualities of small scale oral history projects. Before turning to a fuller explanation of this approach as a four phase practice, the chapter outlines some background theoretical and methodological considerations including an overview of the strengths of oral history methodology and some of the key understandings about memory harnessed by the history-in-the-round approach.
- Subject
- oral history; history-in-the-round; approaches; memory and meaning; phases of practice
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1324449
- Identifier
- uon:25038
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789619358955
- Language
- eng
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