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Since 1980, The Tape-Recorded Interview has been an essential resource for folklorists and oral historiansindeed, for anyone who uses a tape recorder in field research. Now, Sandy Ives has updated this manual to reflect the current preferences in tape-recording technology and equipment. When this book was first published, the reel-to-reel recorder was the favored format for fieldwork. Because the cassette recorder has almost completely replaced it, Ives has revised the first chapter, How a Tape Recorder Works, accordingly and has included a useful discussion of the differences between analog and digital recording. He has also added a brief section on video, updated the bibliography, and reworked his original comments on tape cataloging and transcription. As in the first edition, Ivess emphasis is on documenting the lives of common men and women. He offers a careful, step-by-step tour through the collection processfinding informants, making advance preparations, conducting the actual interview, obtaining a releaseand then describes the procedures for processing the taped interview and archiving such materials for future use. He also gives special treatment to such topics as recordin

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Author

Edward Dawson Ives

Publisher

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780870498787

Category

history

Subjects

Folklore, Anthropology, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.82 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14