I Can Almost See the Lights of Home:
A Field Trip to Harlan County, Kentucky
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Press Release:
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Winner of the Oral History Association's 1999 Nonprint Media Award, "I Can Almost See the Lights of Home" is a stereo, 2.5hr oral history "essay in sound" produced by Charles Hardy and Alessandro Portelli. Produced from interviews that Portelli recorded on a single field trip to Harlan County, Kentucky, it represents the attempt of two oral historians, one from Pennsylvania, USA, and the other from Rome, Italy to demonstrate how sound can be a carrier of serious scholarship. "I Can Almost See the Lights of Home" is also an instructional manual on authoring in sound and a manifesto of sorts. Published in the second issue of the online Journal for Multimedia History, it challenges oral historians to explore the "orality" of the sound documents that they produce, and challenges all historians to consider alternative modes of presenting their studies.
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Credits:
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Writers: Charles Hardy and Alessandro Portelli | Interviews: Alessandro Portelli Musical recordings: Alessandro and Charles Hardy Producer/Engineer: Charles Hardy Financial assistance provided by the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, the West Chester University Faculty Development Program, the English Department of the University of Rome La Sapienza, and a grant from the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Original Songs written and performed by Arthur Johnson and Becky Ruth Brae. Special thanks to Annie Napier, Ron Grele, Mary Marshall Clark, Steve Rowland, and the participants of the 1996 Oral History Research Office Oral History Summer Institute.
For More Information:
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Visit the Journal for Multimedia History
and the Talking History Website online.
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Availability:
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Until 7 November 2000
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