Keeping Family Stories Alive
Sooner or later we all want to know more than scattered facts about our family heritage. Yet, with today's hurried and mibile lifestyles, we have lost the occasions for reminiscing and storytelling that used to be a part of every family's daily life. Family anecdotes give shape to our past, connecting us with our roots and a sense of our own identity. No matter how simple, complex or incomplete, every family's stories deserve to be recorded and remembered. It's a process that benefits both listener and teller.
In this book, Vera Rosenbluth offers many pratical and useful techniques for reviving and keeping family memories alive. The book includes a section on the uses of family stories outside the family - in seniors' care facilities and ethnic associations, and for school oral history projects.
Product Info
Condititon - New
- Publisher : Hartley & Marks; 0 edition (January 1, 1990)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 175 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0881790265 ISBN-13 : 978-0881790269
- Item Weight : 9.6 ounces Dimensions : 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
Reviews
From Library Journal
This oral family history handbook takes a different approach from similar books by including new material on memory and advice on jogging memories for the interviewer and the interviewee. There are also examples from real interviews. As do the standard books, this also gives practical advice on handling microphones and audio and videotape, interviewing techniques, suggested interview questions, and preserving and using tapes. For the standard topics, the best available work is William Fletcher's Recording Your Family History: A Guide to Preserving Oral History with Videotape, Audiotape, Suggested Topics and Questions, Interview Techniques (Ten Speed Pr., 1989). On balance, however, Rosenbluth's book could be useful in libraries and for the home market.
- Judith P. Reid, Library of Congress
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