Transcribing oral history
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Transcribing oral history
（Practicing oral history series）
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Transcribing Oral History offers a comprehensive guide to the transcription of qualitative interviews, an often richly debated practice within oral history. Beginning with an introduction to the field and an overview of the many disciplines that conduct and transcribe interviews, the book goes on to offer practical advice to those looking to use transcription within their own projects. A helpful how-to section covers technology, style guides, ways to format transcripts and troubleshoot the many problems that can arise. In addition to the practicalities of transcription itself, the book encourages the reader to consider legal and ethical issues, and the effects of troubling audio on the transcriptionist. It explains how scholars can turn recorded interviews and transcripts into books, films and museum exhibits, enabling the reader to understand the wider concerns surrounding transcription as well as the practical uses to which it can be put.
Based upon the author's personal experience as a freelance transcriptionist and interviews with more than 30 professionals working around the world in the oral history and qualitative research fields, this is an indispensable guide for those involved in interviews and transcription at any level of an oral history project, including historians, transcriptionists, interviewers, project administrators, archivists, researchers and students.
Table of Contents
1. About Oral History and Transcription 2. Getting Started 3. Transcription vs. the Alternatives 4. Technology and Equipment 5. Transcription Step by Step 6. Hard Decisions 7. Editing and Polishing 8. Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues 9. The Human Side of Transcription 10. Using Transcripts for Research 11. Conclusions
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