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Grele, Ronald J.

Envelopes of sound : the art of oral history / Ronald J. Grele
with Studs Terkel . . . [et al.]. -- 2nd ed., rev. and enl.

p. cm.

Reprint. Originally published: Chicago, Ill. : Precedent Pub.,
1985.

Developed from a session at the annual meeting of the Organization
of American Historians, Chicago, April, 1973.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 0-275-94184-1

1. Oral history. I. Terkel, Studs, 1912- . II. Title.

[D16.14.G74 1991]
907′.2--dc20 90-15496

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Copyright © 1991 by Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

A hardcover edition of Envelopes of Sound is available from
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (ISBN 0-313-28099-1)

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 90-15496
ISBN: 0-275-94184-1

First published in 1991

Praeger Publishers, One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

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Parts of chapters 5, 6, and 7 of the present work appeared in a slightly different
form in the following journals:

"A Surmisable Variety: Oral History and Interdisciplinarity," in AMERICAN
QUARTERLY, Volume XXVII, Number 3 ( August 1975) pp. 275-295

"Can Anyone Over Thirty Be Trusted? A Friendly Critique of Oral History," in
THE ORAL HISTORY REVIEW ( 1978) pp. 36-44

"Listen to Their Voices: Two Case Studies in the Interpretation of Oral History
Interviews," in ORAL HISTORY: THE JOURNAL OF THE ORAL HISTORY
SOCIETY (BRITISH) Volume 7, Number 1 (Spring 1975) pp. 33-42

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