Online Reviews
Welcome to the online review section of the Oral History journal. Here we share reviews of new work from around the world that uses oral history methods or approaches.
For the print version of the OHJ, we also publish more substantial review essays that put at least three books (or films, exhibitions, etc) in conversation with each other.
Publishers, artists, producers, and would-be reviewers should contact the reviews editors, Isabel Machado and Fearghus Roulston at ohjreviews@gmail.com.
I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life
Cascadura, Fábio. Review of I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life, by Brian Foster. Oral History Journal Online Reviews Section (November 2021).
Memórias Afro-Atlânticas (Afro-Atlantic Legacies)
Mulholland, Rebekkah. Review of Memórias Afro-Atlânticas/Afro-Atlantic Legacies, directed by Gabriela Barreto. Oral History Journal Online Reviews Section (November 2021)
Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation
Paul Thompson, Ken Plummer, and Neli Demireva Bristol: Policy Press, 2021, pp 254, £60.00, hardback This lovely book offers an elegant and accessible introduction to the fifty-eight life interviews of pioneering UK social scientists initiated
The Pink and Purple Church in the Castro
An online exhibition by Lynne Gerber, Siri Colom, and Ariana Nedelman The images and sounds echoing through to the present from the intertwined histories of HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ communities, and religion in the United States conventionally
