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Angela Zusman offers an informative guidebook with step-by-step directions for planning and implementing intergenerational oral history projects, using youth to interview elders. An expert on these programs, Zusman uses her experiences and those of other oral historians to show how community projects are organized, youthful historians located and trained, interviews conducted, and the project archived for future community needs. Included are a variety...
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Scope and content: In general, this category will include items relating to folklore, folklife, folk culture, crafts, stories, customs, material culture, and oral tradition. Presently, contents include the booklet "The Story of Tennessee Mountain Crafts" by Helen Krechniak (1954) and some handouts about oral history and family folklore, probably distributed at a Smithsonian Institution workshop held in Nashville, Tenn. in 1982.
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Abstract: Thirty interviews conducted with Nashville elders, recalling in autobiographical form their major life events and experiences. Most are audio recordings although a few may exist only as full or partial transcripts. Interviews were conducted as part of the statewide initiative known as Homecoming '86, a celebration of local communities and their history. Planning documents for the oral history project are also part of the collection.
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