Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: Transcribing Oral History
Author(s): Bergen Teresa
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Barcode: 9780815350934
Pages: 208 Pages, 7 Tables, Black And White; 1 Line Drawings, Black And White; 3 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 8/5/2019
Series: Practicing Oral History
Category: Oral History