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" I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written."
Saul Williams

Meaning of "oral history" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF ORAL HISTORY

oral history


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ORAL HISTORY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Oral history is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ORAL HISTORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Oral history

Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people who participated in or observed past events and whose memories and perceptions of these are to be preserved as an aural record for future generations. Oral history strives to obtain information from different perspectives and most of these cannot be found in written sources. Oral history also refers to information gathered in this manner and to a written work based on such data, often preserved in archives and large libraries. The term is sometimes used in a more general sense to refer to any information about past events that people who experienced them tell anybody else, but professional historians usually consider this to be oral tradition. However, as the Columbia Encyclopedia explains: Primitive societies have long relied on oral tradition to preserve a record of the past in the absence of written histories.

Definition of oral history in the English dictionary

The definition of oral history in the dictionary is the memories of living people about events or social conditions which they experienced in their earlier lives taped and preserved as historical evidence.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ORAL HISTORY

oraculously · oraculousness · oracy · orad · Oradea · oragious · oral · oral eroticism · oral examiner · oral hygiene · oral hygienist · Oral Law · oral sex · oral society · oral tradition · oral vowel · oralism · oralist · orality · orally

WORDS THAT END LIKE ORAL HISTORY

alternative history · ancient history · back story · cover story · credit history · directory · ghost story · history · horror story · life story · love story · medical history · natural history · prehistory · service history · short story · sob story · social history · story · success story · the same old story

Synonyms and antonyms of oral history in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «oral history» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ORAL HISTORY

Find out the translation of oral history to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of oral history from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oral history» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

口述历史
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

la historia oral
570 millions of speakers
en

English

oral history
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

मौखिक इतिहास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التاريخ الشفهي
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

устная история
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

história oral
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

মৌখিক ইতিহাস
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

l´histoire orale
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Sejarah lisan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

oral History
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

口述歴史
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

구술 역사
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Lisan sejarah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lịch sử truyền miệng
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

வாய்மொழி வரலாறு
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

तोंडी इतिहास
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

sözlü tarih
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

storia orale
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

oral history
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

усна історія
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

istorie orală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προφορική ιστορία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mondelinge geskiedenis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

muntlig historia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oral historie
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ORAL HISTORY»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about oral history

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QUOTES WITH «ORAL HISTORY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word oral history.
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Saul Williams
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORAL HISTORY»

Discover the use of oral history in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oral history and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Oxford Handbook of Oral History
The Oxford Handbook of Oral History brings together forty authors on five continents to address the evolution of oral history, the impact of digital technology, the most recent methodological and archival issues, and the application of oral ...
Donald A. Ritchie, 2011
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Doing Oral History
In this thorough guide to oral history theory, methods, and practice, Donald A. Ritchie, a prominent U.S. scholar in the field, synthesizes and builds on the extensive literature in manuals and fieldwork guides, to provide the first oral ...
Donald A. Ritchie, 1995
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Handbook of Oral History
Handbook of Oral History captures the current state-of-the-art, identifies major strands of intellectual development, and predicts key directions for future growth in theory, research, and application.
Thomas Lee Charlton, Lois E. Myers, Rebecca Sharpless, 2006
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Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and ...
This exceptional new edition will interest researchers and students in a wide variety of disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, education, psychology, social work and ethnographic methods.
Valerie Raleigh Yow, 2005
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Voice of the Past: Oral History
In the survey of work in the field, Thompson extends his prodigious capacity for sythesising a huge range of the sources available around the world, drawing from many different case studies to make his points.
Paul Thompson, 2000
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History of Oral History: Foundations and Methodology
Part I and II of Handbook of Oral History, now available in paper for classroom use.
Thomas L. Charlton, Lois E. Myers, Rebecca Sharpless, 2007
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Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology
This volume is a reprint of the 1984 edition, with the added bonus of a new introduction by David Dunaway and a new section on how oral history is practiced on an international scale.
David K. Dunaway, Willa K. Baum, 1996
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Oral History and Public Memories
Taken together, these original essays link the well established practice of oral history to the burgeoning field of memory studies.
Paula Hamilton, Linda Shopes, 2009
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The Oral History Reader
Arranged in five thematic parts, "The Oral History Reader" covers key debates in the post-war development of oral history.
Robert Perks, Alistair Thomson, 1998
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Artists, reporters, musicians, and groupies chronicle the emergence of punk music in New York's underground and give backstage accounts of drugs, sex, power struggles, and other manifestations of the movement. Reprint.
Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ORAL HISTORY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term oral history is used in the context of the following news items.
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Loveblisters: An Oral History of a Farewell Show
If you missed their final show in 2009, don't make the same mistake again. Local rockers Loveblisters are back to say goodbye again this Friday ... «LASVEGAS Daily, Jul 15»
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Read This: An oral history of the over-the-top fashion of Clueless
One that's well worth a read is an oral history assembled by Uproxx that explores the film's unique sense of style. Writer-director Amy ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Jul 15»
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Now available: Gawker: An Oral History
Since November, I've been working on what is the first-ever complete oral history of Gawker, a project that covers more than a decade of ... «Death and Taxes, Jul 15»
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Roseanne Barr's national anthem: An oral history of the Barr …
San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium had witnessed a wild pitch before July 25, 1990. But nothing like this. Twenty-five years ago this week, ... «SportingNews.com, Jul 15»
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'I Really Liked To Take Chances'—An Oral History Of TT The Bear's
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. On June 20, the storied Cambridge rock club T.T. the Bear's Place hosted an “everything's gotta go” sale, a flea market ... «WBUR, Jul 15»
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Oral History
It was in 2008, while dining in the historic Piazza Santa Croce in the center of Florence, Italy, that author and local food writer Lynn Cline ... «Santa Fe Reporter, Jul 15»
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Read this: The oral history of Kids, the most controversial movie of …
In 1995, Rosario Dawson had just finished eighth grade and was living in a squat. Chloë Sevigny was dry humping a lot of skateboarders. «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jul 15»
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Sonoma Valley Legends Series preserves Oral History
The Sonoma Valley Legends is a video series featuring six local wine icons who recount stories about the valley. The project was developed by ... «Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Jul 15»
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You Oughta Know: an oral history of Alanis Morissette's Jagged …
"What you're born with is what you're born with, and the noise you make is the noise you make. And the noise she makes is so extraordinary. «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
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Roundup: US Students win Math Olympiad, Oral History of 'Kids …
Zack Greinke of the Dodgers hasn't given up a run in 43 2/3 innings. [LA Times]. 'If you somehow missed this story about the earthquake that's ... «The Big Lead, Jul 15»
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