South Phoenix Oral History Project
South Phoenix Oral History Project
2.52. Grey Areas - Questions You Can't Get Answered
It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.
Today's prompt: Think about a difficult or sensitive topic that you’d really like a narrator to speak about, and determine a strategy for asking (and re-asking) the question in future interviews. What will you do if your narrator demurs? How many times will you ask and ask again before you give up? How many different ways could you ask the same question to get at different answers?
Resources
- UNC Chapel Hill, Southern Oral History Program, Press Record. “Episode 1- Silence Speaks Volumes: Navigating Silence in Oral History Interviews”, https://sohp.org/podcast/press-record-episode-1-silence-speaks-volumes/
- Shopes, Linda. “Making Sense of Oral History,” in Oral History in the Digital Age, edited by Doug Boyd, Steve Cohen, Brad Rakerd, and Dean Rehberger. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2012, http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/08/making-sense-of-oral-history/
- Shopes, Linda. “Oral History and the Study of Communities: Problems, Paradoxes, and Possibilities.” The Journal of American History, vol. 89, no. 2, 2002, pp. 588–598. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3092177.
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More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association.
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