Sherrie Tucker’s Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s seeks to challenge the dominant swing discourse, where all-women bands are infrequently mentioned, and to bridge…
a practice in progress
Sherrie Tucker’s Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s seeks to challenge the dominant swing discourse, where all-women bands are infrequently mentioned, and to bridge…
This week, I checked out an interview with Lucy Belanger, which was a part of the Shoe Workers Oral History Project in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, highlighted…
As I mentioned in my last post, I am interested in preservation, and am intrigued as to how oral histories can be best preserved. In…
Why have spoken history and oral tradition struggled to maintain credibility? This question remained with me through Ritchie’s article, “An Oral History of Our Time,”…