Andrea Dixon, who received her MA in Oral History and is now a PhD student, says that theoretical understanding will help with oral history’s struggle for legitimacy. Her dissertation research consists of interviews with oral historians about their interview practices and the origins of those practices. Read More

On Thursday, October 4, 2012, the Columbia Center for Oral History and the Columbia University Oral History Master of Arts program hosted the event, “‘We’d Rather Not Be on the Rolls of Relief’: Folk Music as/and Oral History: Civic Engagement Through Songs, Documentary Photographs and Voices from the Depression and the New Deal.”

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