Women in a Men’s Collective in the 1970s and 1980s

For many years, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra was an exclusively male organization despite the increasing number of women in Czechoslovakia joining the workforce. This paper, which is based on oral history interviews with members of the orchestra, the paper will attempt to identify the reasons why almost no women were employed there during the period of Czechoslovak Socialism and under what kind of conditions the only two female members worked. Through interpretation and depth analysis of the oral history interview with one of the two female musicians employed by the Philharmonic before 1989, the paper will primarily map the issue of how women reconciled work and family life, which was considered one of the main obstacles for female musicians, while also taking into consideration the Philharmonic’s prestige and its frequent tours abroad. The acquired experience of a female musician is interpreted within the context of male narratives and is embedded in the study’s theoretical framework. This framework is defined by the available research on women’s emancipation and transformations of the gender order of the Czechoslovak socialist society, as well as research comparing the career patterns of musicians (both female and male) and the inclusion of women in the world’s leading symphony orchestras.

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The Chinese Jamaican Oral History Project

10.32920/ryerson.14662566 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Clarkson Fisher

Keyword(s):

Oral History ◽

Diverse Range ◽

Online Archive ◽

Digital Stories ◽

Oral History Interview ◽

Oral History Interviews

The Chinese Jamaican Oral History Project is an initiative that aims to record and preserve memories and stories from the Chinese Jamaican community in Toronto. Its two distinct components are: (1) an online archive of audio-recorded oral history interviews, narrator portraits, and other images; and (2) an exhibition made from the contents of that archive. Specifically, the exhibition is comprised of twelve digital stories -- one for each of the narrators who has participated in the project so far. In every case, a soundbite has been selected to represent the complete oral history interview (which is archived online in full). Together with the images, these voices tell a story of the Chinese Jamaican community in Toronto, while also underscoring the diverse range of individual experiences within it.

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The Chinese Jamaican Oral History Project

10.32920/ryerson.14662566.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Clarkson Fisher

Keyword(s):

Oral History ◽

Diverse Range ◽

Online Archive ◽

Digital Stories ◽

Oral History Interview ◽

Oral History Interviews

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Introduction

The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197508497.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Robert Garner ◽

Yewande Okuleye

Keyword(s):

Oral History ◽

Group Dynamics ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Theory Building ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

Making Sense ◽

New Ideas ◽

Oral History Interviews ◽

Oxford Group

The introduction sets the scene for the book by sketching out the theoretical framework to be used to analyze the Oxford Group. The study of the Oxford Group serves as a case study of creative endeavor. How do we explain the emergence of important work and the development of new ideas, and how important is the creative community within which these ideas emerge? Explaining the theory building that accompanied the ethnographic research, centering on a set of oral history interviews with the participants, is important not only as a way of making sense of the Oxford Group but also as a device to facilitate dialogue across fields and methods by providing a trans-situational language. The theoretical framework derives both from ethnographic observation—and in that sense is engaged with grounded theory—and from the extension and refinement of preexisting theoretical formulations. This includes an engagement with the literature on group dynamics, including most notably collaborative circles as well as social network theory and psychogeography.

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Re-enacting the past: the translation of performativity in oral history interviews

FITISPos International Journal ◽

10.37536/fitispos-ij.2021.8.1.266 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 66-78

Author(s):

Diana Painca

Keyword(s):

Oral History ◽

Translation Studies ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

The Past ◽

Oral History Interviews

This article explores the connection between Translation Studies and Oral History on Romanian communism. Inspired by Portelli’s theoretical framework, it aims to address the problems posed by the translation of performativity from Romanian into English. To this end, transcribed historical interviews are extracted from two main books on the era: Memorial of pain: darkness and light (Hossu Longin, 2013) and The Survivors: testimonies from Romania’s communist prisons (Ştef, 2014).

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Drifting: Feminist Oral History and the Study of the Last Female Drifters in Iceland

10.21523/gcj2.18020101 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Dalrún Eygerðardóttir

Keyword(s):

Oral History ◽

Sense Of Place ◽

Oral Tradition ◽

Women's History ◽

Narrative Style ◽

Conversational Style ◽

Narrative Techniques ◽

Oral History Interview ◽

Oral History Interviews ◽

Women’S History

This paper examines the story of the last female drifters in Iceland from the voices of women who remembered them. It examines the advantages of the woman-on-woman oral history interview when obtaining women’s perspectives on women’s history. An examination of women’s narrative techniques suggests that women’s narrative style is often consistent with a conversational style; and therefore it is important to construct a space in woman-on-woman oral history interviews that carries a sense of place for a conversation. It also examines the woman-on-woman oral history interview as a continuation of women’s oral tradition in Iceland, especially an oral tradition from medieval Iceland; called a narrative dance (ice. sagnadans). Lastly, it examines the shared features of the Icelandic #Metoo event stories and the Icelandic narrative dances, in relation to woman-on-woman oral history interviews.

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Old and New Trends in Crossover Research

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199337538.013.11 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Mina Westman

Keyword(s):

Positive Psychology ◽

Family Life ◽

Positive Emotions ◽

Recent Trend ◽

Past Research ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Work And Family ◽

Future Research

Based on an integrated view of prior research, we propose a comprehensive theoretical framework of the crossover process that extends our understanding of work and family life. First, we define the crossover process and review past research. Second, we address the crossover of positive emotions and experiences, focusing on the recent trend of positive psychology. We then review new issues in crossover research including the spillover–crossover model, supportive theory, and findings, and crossover of resources. Finally, we review and discuss the issue of the role of gender in crossover research, in an effort to clarify the background for the inconsistency in findings regarding gender and crossover. We summarize with an agenda for future research.

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Makers and Keepers: Two Lives, through Photographs

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.56-3-2021-0044 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 56 (3) ◽

pp. 292-319

Author(s):

Kelann Currie-Williams

Keyword(s):

Black Women ◽

Oral History ◽

Social Life ◽

Photographic Images ◽

Black And White ◽

Oral Testimony ◽

Relational Qualities ◽

Oral History Interview ◽

Oral History Interviews ◽

The City

Looking through the pages of family photo albums or the folders of photographic archival fonds can only be described as holding history in your hands. Whether it is in the form of colour or black and white prints, negatives, or slides, these photo-objects carry histories of lives lived that go beyond their frames. Focusing on a set of oral history interviews conducted with two Black women living in Montréal — a community photographer or image “maker” who was most active during the 1970s–1990s and a photo-collector or “keeper” who is currently active in preserving and sharing photographs for her church and wider communities within the city — this article engages with how the interweaving of photography and oral history gives us a rich way to experience the histories of Black social life in Montréal. Photo-led oral history interviews are sites for fruitful and in-depth conversation, providing interviewee and interviewer alike with the possibility of coming into encounter with everyday or minor histories that are too often overlooked. Moreover, this article is driven by a set entwined questions: How does oral testimony open up additional avenues for sharing the events of the past that have been captured through photographic images? What affective and relational qualities do photographs possess and how, in turn, do these qualities transform the space of the oral history interview? And, most urgently, why was photography used by Black Montréalers as a tool and a practice to remember and insist upon their collective presence?

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