Publications

Voiceprint – Journal of OHAA NSW

A bi-annual newsletter, free to members, includes helpful articles about the practice of oral history, current projects, advice about new technology, and activities of the NSW Branch.

Contributions are always welcome. Use Word format, Windows XP or earlier (no Vista Files please). Photos particularly welcome and need to be jpg format.

Closing Dates for Copy:

April Edition: in by first week of February
October Edition: in by end of July

Email to Joyce Cribb, Editor Voiceprint: jcribb@iinet.net.au

Oral History Association of Australia Journal

Published annually. The Journal’s contents reflects the diversity and vitality of oral history practice in Australia, and includes contributions from overseas.

The Editor of the Journal welcomes offers of material for possible publication in future issues. Note: Contributors are NOT required to be members of OHAA.

Call for papers for 2010 - closing date 1 April 2010

Closing Date for Peer Review Process 31 December 2009

Click here Contributions are invited from Australia and overseas for publication in the OHAA journal No.32 2010 Islands of Memory (Revisited)

Click here for General Information for Contributors and details of Peer Review process option

Enquries: Dr. Terry Whitebeach, General Editor, OHAA jOURNAL 2010
Email: twhitebeach@skymesh.com.au

Back Issues of OHAA Journal

All copies $15 each

No.22 2000 A Century of Tales
No.23 2001 Voices of a Twentieth Century Nation
No.24 2002 Voices of a Twentieth Century Nation (2)
No.25 2003 From all Quarters
No.26 2004 More from all Quarters
No.27 2005 Talking families, talking communities (out of print)
No.28 2006 Oral History and its Challenge(r)s
No.29 2007 Old Stories, New Ways
No.30 2008 Old Stories, New Ways (2)
No.31 2009 Islands of Memory

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Oral History Handbook 5th edition by Beth Robertson

Price: $28* ( includes postage and handling)
*Special discount price for members of OHAA

Click here for ordering in NSW & ACT

The Oral History Handbook has been published by the South Australian Branch of the Oral History Association since 1983. It is well established as the national standard. The author draws on 25 years experience of practising and teaching oral history techniques and preserving sound recordings.

Contents includes:

Introducing Oral History	Interviewing Techniques
Preparing for the Interview	Summaries and Transcripts
Copyright and Oral History	Funding for Oral History
Developing Questionnaires	Guidelines of Ethical Practice
Recording Equipment	Commissioning Oral History
Digital Recording Standards	Recommended Reading

Talking Together – a Guide to Community Oral History Projects by Lesley Jenkins OHAA Q’lnd. $14.50

Lesley comments: Projects can start in different ways. They can result from recommendations made in reports by others, or they can be initiated by council members or community workers. Sometimes an idea can jump around a group for a while until it formalises and everybody forgets who first thought it up. No matter how the idea was conceived, the next step is to act on it. This is an easy to access practical guide for those involved in building community oral history projects.

Cheque with order to:

Suzanne Mulligan,
OHAA (Q’lnd. Inc.
17 Pallinup Street
Riverhills. Qlnd. 4074

Capturing the Past: an oral history workshop

Written and presented by Stuart Reid, a highly experienced oral history interviewer and trainer. Produced by the OHAA Western Australia Branch & Western Australian History Foundation. Duration 20 minutes.

This DVD is a lively introduction to the art of using oral history and will help you prepare and develop interviews, ask questions and use the interviews you record. It is the perfect introduction into oral history interviewing for high school students and the beginner oral historian at any age.

DVD and booklet $15 includes postage and handling)

Contact:
Treasurer
Oral History Association (WA Branch)
PO Box 1065
NEDLANDS WA.6909
or email: Lindy Wallace: wallaclj@bigpond.net.au
Cheques payable to Oral History Association (WA Branch)

The Oral History Reader 2nd edition Edited by Robert Perks & Alistair Thomson 2006

Published by Routledge, London and New York
ISBN 13:9-78-0-415-34302-2 (hb)
ISBN 13:9-78-0-415-34303-9 (pb)

Fully updated to include the most recent discussions on key issues, this second edition of The Oral History Reader is a comprehensive, international anthology of major, ‘classic’ articles and cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. The collection covers influential debates in its development over the past sixty years and is arranged in five thematic sections:

Critical developments
Interviewing
Interpreting memories
Making histories
Advocacy and empowerment

Oral History and Public Memories Edited by Paula Hamilton & Linda Shopes 2008

Published by Temple University Press
ISBN1592131417 (pb)
ISBN1592131409 (hb)

Oral History and Public Memories is the first book to explore the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory studies. In the past, oral historians have generally privileged the individual narrator, frequently fetishizing the interview process without fully understanding that interviews are only one form of memory-making. Historians engaged in memory studies, on the other hand, have asked broader questions—about the social and cultural processes at work in remembrance, for example. What distinguishes these essays from much work in oral history is their focus fot on the experiences of individual narrators, but on the broader cultural meanings of oral history narratives. What distinguishes them from other work in memory studies is their grounding in real events. Taken together, these contributions explain the processes by which oral histories move beyond interviews with individual people to become articulated memories shared by others.