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Together the three essays emphasise the importance of oral narratives and acts of translation and interpretation.

Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. Alessandro Portelli explores the power and resonance of the song, considering the meanings of history and memory in folk cultures and in Dylan's work.

Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. Alessandro Portelli explores the power and resonance of the song, considering the meanings of history and memory in folk cultures and in Dylan's work.

A pioneering work in oral history, this book tells the story of the rise and fall of the industrial revolution and the apogee and crisis of the labor movement through an oral history of Terni, a steel town in Central Italy and the seat of the first large industrial enterprise in Italy. This story is told through a combination of stories, songs, myths and memories from over 200 voices of five generations, woven with a wealth of archival material.

Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Examining cultural conflict and communication between social groups and classes in industrial societies, he identifies the way individuals strive to create memories in order to make sense of their lives, and evaluates the impact of the fieldwork experience on the consciousness of the researcher. By recovering the value of th...

This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.

This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.

A pioneering work in oral history, this book tells the story of the rise and fall of the industrial revolution and the apogee and crisis of the labor movement through an oral history of Terni, a steel town in Central Italy and the seat of the first large industrial enterprise in Italy. This story is told through a combination of stories, songs, myths and memories from over 200 voices of five generations, woven with a wealth of archival material.

Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Examining cultural conflict and communication between social groups and classes in industrial societies, he identifies the way individuals strive to create memories in order to make sense of their lives, and evaluates the impact of the fieldwork experience on the consciousness of the researcher. By recovering the value of th...

This bold retelling of American literary history explores the ways in which the interplay of oral and written forms shaped the foundations of our national literature and political identity. Throughout the book, Portelli invites the reader to share in a provocative, intriguing, and always open conversation on the American voice---deferred, remembered, transcribed, and reinvented by our multifaceted and fabled writers.

History, we are often taught, is driven by vast social, political, and economic forces. But each political event, each war, each clash in the streets or at the picket lines, is experienced by individuals. It is this profound bond between public history and personal struggle, Alessandro Portelli contends, that gives oral history its significance and its power. In "The Battle of Valle Giulia"--the title comes from an Italian student protest of t...

Qual è il significato delle Fosse Ardeatine? Quale memoria ha lasciato la strage nazista compiuta a Roma il 24 marzo 1944, come rappresaglia dell'attentato partigiano di via Rasella, in cui il giorno prima erano morti 33 tedeschi? E quale rapporto si può istituire tra il ricordo di quella strage e l'identità collettiva di un'intera città? L'eterogeneità sociale e politica delle 355 persone uccise fa delle Fosse Ardeatine un avvenimento emblema...

Bruce Springsteen è il più importante eroe contemporaneo della classe operaia americana. Una classe che ha subito numerose sconfitte negli ultimi vent'anni ma che ha ancora una grande forza vitale. Springsteen non nasce dal nulla, ma si ricollega consapevolmente a quella musica popolare nata a cavallo dell'immediato dopoguerra bene espressa dalle figure di Woody Guthrie e Pete Seeger. Portelli esplora il portato politico della musica pop arric...

Winner of the 2005 Oral History Association Book Award" On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Alessandro Portelli has crafted an eloquent, multi-voiced oral history of the massacre, of its background and its aftermath. The moving stories of the victims, the women and children who survived and carried on, the partisans who fought the Nazis, and the com...