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The death of Luigi Trastulli, and other stories : form and meaning in oral history /

Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Examining cultural conflict and communication between social groups and classes in industrial societies, he identifies the way individuals strive to create memories in order to ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Portelli, Alessandro
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1991.
Colección:SUNY series in oral and public history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The death of Luigi Trastulli: memory and the event
  • I. On methodology
  • 2. Research as an experiment in equality
  • 3. What makes oral history different
  • 4. "The time of my life": functions of time in oral history
  • II. Two industrial cultures
  • 5. Dividing the world: sound and space in cultural transition
  • 6. Uchronic dreams: working-class memory and possible worlds
  • 7. The best garbage man in town: life and times of Valtèro Peppoloni, worker
  • 8. Sports, work, and politics in an industrial town
  • 9. Typology of industrial folk song
  • 10. Patterns of paternalism: from company town to union shop
  • 11. No neutrals there: the cultural class struggle in the Harlan Miners' Strike of 1931-32
  • III. The interdisciplinary approach
  • 12. The oral shape of the law: the "April 7 case"
  • 13. Absalom, Absalom!: oral history and literature.