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An Evergreen Protective Association volunteer recording an oral history at Greater Rosemont History Day. Oral history is the collection and study of historical information from people, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people ...
Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. [1] [2] [3] The transmission is through speech or song and may include folktales, ballads, chants, prose or poetry.
Types of information held by oral repositories includes lineages, oral law, mythology, oral literature and oral poetry (of which oral history is often entwined), folk songs and aural tradition, and traditional knowledge. In many indigenous societies, such as Native American and San, these roles are fulfilled in a general sense by elders.
Oral history is a research process for recording oral tradition, which is information passed verbally through generations of a community without being recorded into media. Wikipedia treats oral history as it does with any other primary source. See: WP:RS and WP:OR. Sources have to be published in a permanent form such print, video, or audio ...
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The Millses noted that this constituted a gap of more than ninety years of relying only on the Haley family's oral history. They investigated the facts of the oral history but found no corroborating evidence in the historical record. [25] Tom Lea was not born into a poor family; he came from a well-to-do planter family.
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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 is a 2021 oral history written by former ACT UP activist Sarah Schulman. [1] Using 188 interviews conducted as part of the ACT UP Oral History Project, [2] Schulman shows how the activist group was successful, due to its decentralized, dramatic actions, and emphasizes the contributions of people of color and women to the ...