Oral History Association California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje; Eddie S. Meadows Review by: Arthur Buell The Oral History Review, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Summer - Autumn, 2001), pp. 164-166 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Oral History Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3675791 . Accessed: 19/06/2012 17:24 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Oxford University Press and Oral History Association are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Oral History Review. http://www.jstor.org 164 ORAL HISTORY REVIEW Wodiczko used the narratives he gathered to challenge Americans' preconceptions about immigration. What is finally heartening about these artists is simply that they take the concept of public space seriously. They assume that it can exist apart from corporate promotions and commercialized leisure and that it is a sphere in which social issues can still be engaged. Social change is incremental and to a large extent incalculable, and tactics that raise issues at individual moments in individual communities should not be neglected. Dialogues In Public Art uses oral history research methodology brilliantlyto illuminate the individualmoments, the reactions of individual communities.