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Wednesday Program Schedule From there, we’ll dissect the whole process of documen- WEDNESDAY tary production: planning; writing and evaluating treat- ments; funding; scriptwriting; textual and aural research; processing and restoring sound; copyright, releases, and CONFERENCE REGISTRATION other legal matters; narrative and narration; mixing and MEETING ROOM FOYER 8:00AM-4:30PM digital audio editing; and final production and distribu- tion. 1 Special attention will be paid to recording equipment, WORKSHOP: Getting Started with Oral History: recording standards, digital processing, and editing, and An Introductory Workshop other technical skills needed to produce quality documen- CONGRESSIONAL 9:00AM-4:00PM taries at reasonable cost. Many of these skills are also Lunch break: 12:00–1:15PM useful for Web-based and multi-media oral history projects. Enrollment is limited to 40 participants. Join Laura Kamoie of the American University, Depart- ment of History, for a workshop on the basics of oral Cost: $55 members/$65 non-members. Advance registra- history. This full day workshop will explore, in-depth, tion required. such topics as: planning and coordinating a project; effective interview techniques; equipment needs; legal and 3 ethical concerns; processing and preservation strategies; and potential final products. The format will be interactive WORKSHOP: Field Recording Aural Histories in and will include hands-on exercises, as well as discussions the Digital Age about oral history methodology. Enrollment is limited to JUDICIARY SUITE 9:00AM-12:00PM 24 participants. This workshop offers an introduction to digital field Cost: $55 members/$65 non-members. Advance registra- recorders, microphones, and related recording equipment. tion required. Participants will learn techniques for creating and interviewing for non-print media; the capturing of sound 2 objects and soundscapes, as well as recording the human voice; and the comparative strengths and weaknesses of WORKSHOP: Oral History and Radio Documen- digital and analog equipment. Although the workshop will tary Production focus on audio field recording, it will also include a brief CABINET SUITE 9:00AM-4:00PM introduction to digital video. Workshop participants are Lunch break: 12:00-1:15PM encouraged to bring their own field recorders, micro- phones, and recorded interviews for comparisons of Workshop specialists, Gerald Zahavi and Susan sound quality. McCormick from the Department of History, University of Albany, begin this full-day workshop by examining the This workshop facilitator is Charles Hardy, Professor of definition and range of audio documentaries, and how History, West Chester University, an award-winning oral history has been used in documentary production in documentary producer with more than twenty years of the last half-century. We’ll listen to selections from a experience in oral history and sound documentary variety of NPR and independent works (mainly, but not production. exclusively, with a community focus) - works such as Cost: $40 members/$50 non-members. Advance registra- “Rosewood Reborn” and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” - tion required. as well as classics from a half-century ago. A few listening exercises will follow to enhance participants’ acute 4 listening skills that will help answer important questions for the participants. How are aural “scenes” created? What ADVANCED WORKSHOP: Historical Preservation, makes them compelling and effective? What structures are Restoration, and Reformatting of Audio/Visual most effective to communicate particular ideas and Materials feelings? How can small editing decisions have powerful JUDICIARY SUITE 1:00-3:30PM and emotional impact? (workshop listing continues on next page) 2003 Annual Meeting Program 1 Wednesday & Thursday Program Schedule This workshop will present an introduction to the need evidence in court. Participants will also have ample time for, and process of, historical preservation, restoration and to ask questions that are specific to their practice or reformatting of audio/visual materials. Handy techniques program. will be learned for projects that have already been The workshop facilitator is John Neuenschwander, completed as well as those that are yet to be recorded. Department of History, Carthage College, who is the Such techniques are especially useful because after a author of the Oral History Association’s legal publication, limited period of time, the original audio or visual Oral History and the Law (3rd edition, 2002). materials that are used to record your invaluable oral histories deteriorate and can be lost forever, unless the Note: This workshop provides an academic discussion of information can be preserved and the shelf-life extended the law as it relates to oral history and is not intended to by reformatting the original A/V material. provide direct legal advice or counsel to any of the participants. This presentation regarding restoration and reformatting includes: raising awareness for the need to restore and Cost: $40 members/$50 non-members. Advance registra- reformat oral history materials for historical preservation tion required. and archiving; the process by which the recording media works; and archival formats and their respective shelf-life. Kk Other topics include the selection of audio and/or video materials to use for reformatting; analog vs. digital tape formats for historical preservation; the process of A/V RECEPTION: Regional Presidents No-host tape reformatting; care and handling of original and Reception reformatted materials; and, the basic process of restoring HOTEL LOBBY 5:30PM audio formats. Finally, we will explore how future Meet up with OHMAR President Roger Horowitz and technologies will effect audio and/or videotape restoration other regional oral history organization execs for an and preservation projects. This workshop will be interac- opportunity to get together for food, talk, and spirits at a tive and encourages participants to discuss their concerns surprise location. Please indicate on the reservation form regarding their individual collections. if you intend to join us so we can reserve the proper space. Workshop facilitator, Michael Vail Blum, is an electrical This will be within walking distance of the hotel. engineer with a specialty in audio design and acoustics. He has designed more than fifty recording studios in his twenty years experience. Presently he is working as an independent audio consultant to several major nonprofits, THURSDAY museums, and corporations. In his own Los Angeles recording studio, he works with many Grammy CONFERENCE REGISTRATION award-winning recording artists. MEETING ROOM FOYER 7:30AM-4:30PM Cost: $40 members/$50 non-members. Advance registra- COMMUNITY SHOWCASE tion required. HAVERFORD/BACCARAT 10:00AM-5:00PM EXHIBITS 5 CABINET/JUDICIARY 9:00AM-5:00PM ADVANCED WORKSHOP: Oral History and the Law CONCURRENT SESSIONS 8:30-10:00AM SEVERN/POTOMAC SUITE 1:00-4:00PM This workshop will provide participants with a deeper 6 understanding of the numerous ways in which legal issues and oral history intersect. In addition to providing an Community Responses to Poverty: Testimonies of update on the latest legal developments, it will present Injustice and Resistance case studies and hypothetical situations to illustrate and EMBASSY explain key issues involving legal releases, defamation, Chair and Commentator: Carol B. Stack, University of copyright, Internet access, and the use of oral history as California, Berkeley 2 Oral History Association Thursday Program Schedule Lisa G. Hazirjian, Duke University Gregory R. Zieren, Austin Peay State University Taking Care of Our Own: Networks of Mutual Assistance Conducting Oral Histories in a Military Community and Working-Class African American Communities in Rosemary F. Crockett, Tuskegee Airmen Wives Tell Their Depression-Era Rocky Mount, North Carolina Stories Eve S. Weinbaum, University of Massachusetts Building Distaff Communities at Tuskegee Army Airfield Building a Movement for Economic Justice: Labor- Katrina R. Mason, Author Community Coalitions Fight Plant Closings Children of Los Alamos Mark Peel, Monash University Stephen P. Smith, Middle Tennessee State University Wars of Words: Narratives of Injustice and Hope Community Ties Among World War II Veterans of the 101st 7 Oral Histories in the West Georgia Piedmont: Mills, 10 Music, and More FILM SESSION: White Snow (Transnational PATUXENT SUITE workers) Chair: Rebecca J. Bailey, State University of West Georgia AMBASSADOR Teresa L. Beyer, State University of West Georgia Commentator: Janelle Rodriquez Leisure Builds Community: A Case Study of Rural Banning Mill 11 James Michael Buck, State University of West Georgia “We’ve Lived ‘Round Carrollton All Our Lives and Never Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: Creating an Image, Made a Dime!”: Hillbilly Music and Community in the Building a Community West Georgia Piedmont DIPLOMAT Erin Brasfield, State University of West Georgia Chair: Barbara F. Stokes, University of South Carolina Diversity Through Education: “A Fountain of Life” at a Cathy Wiggins, Chapin Memorial Library College in the Country The Role of Heritage in Shaping Community Identity Barbara F. Stokes, University of South Carolina 8 Transforming a Handful of Summer Cottages into a Dynamic Community Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts: The Road to Understanding Culture and Jenifer Powers, University of South Carolina Community Waves of Change: Adapting to Economic, Social, and CONGRESSIONAL