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Article: Recording Oral History: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists.
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- The Oral History Review
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- June 22, 1998
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RECORDING ORAL HISTORY: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS. By Valerie Raleigh Yow. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1994. 284 pp. Hardcover, $48.00; Softbound, $21.95.
Many years ago at a regional oral history conference, I met a man who proudly told me that in his retirement years he had set about to document his community's history through oral history interviews. He went on to explain that he had found a foolproof method that overcame his subjects' hesitation to record their memories on tape: He would cajole the potential interviewee into taking a ride with him through town. As they drove he and his interviewee would talk, recalling the years ...