Oral History/Interview For this assignment you must conduct an interview. You sh

Oral History/Interview
For this assignment you must conduct an interview.
You should act as if you were a news reporter and try to get as much information as possible from the person you are interviewing.
I suggest you video tape your interview or use a digital recorder to record your interview.You will need to transcribe your recording. You will need to turn the recorded interview into a word document and submit in the paper in the following format.
For example:Melanie: What is your name?
Grandmother: My name is Crystal?
Melanie: Where were you born?
Grandmother: In Chicago, Illinois
Melanie: I would like to interview you if that is okay?
I suggest that before the interview you create a list of questions to ask the person you are interviewing. Remember to be flexible and sometimes you can ask questions based on their answer. Remember the idea is to get as much information as you can from the person you are interviewing.
You should ask a minimum of 40 questions, however, if you conduct your interview properly you may have many more questions.
Criteria:
Choose a relative at least one generation older than you. He or she could be your mother, grandfather, aunt, great-great uncle, cousin (if of a generation older), etc.
Do not choose siblings, or cousins that are your generation.
If you have a relative two generations older than you, try to choose him/her – it will be interesting!
If for some reason you cannot interview a family member you must make arrangements to speak with me, well before the due date, and we will work out the best possible solution.
Interview Topic:
Ask your relative to think of dance experiences that were meaningful to him/her. It could be a dance that s/he participated in somehow
It could be something s/he watched.
It may be any kind of dance in any country or location at any time of his/her life
The experience must be dance, not sport, not drama, not just “moving.”
Ask your relative to tell you about the dance experience. Get the data about who, where, what, when, how. who were they with?
where did the event take place?
what was the event?
when did the event happen?
how did the event take place?
etc… you can think of many more questions to ask
But be sure to encourage your subject to tell you how s/he felt/feels about the experience and why s/he remembers it.
Try to discover what about this dance experience forms the basis for the meaning your relative assigns to it.
Does the dance experience have a relationship to other people? Who?
Does the dance experience have a connection with a specific activity that the person values?
Did the dance experience or experiences make the person think about “something” in a different way?
Did the dance experience or experiences solidify a specific value?
These are only a few possibilities, and it may be that you will discover them later, as you think about your interview.
Remember to record your interview!
Final thoughts:
Remember you should act like a news reporter and try to get as much detail and information as possible about the dance experience or experiences. In addition, keep in mind the fact that you are interviewing a family member and you my learn many new things about your family that you did not know before the interview.
For example you might want to consider the following:
names of people involved in dance experience;
names of places dance experiences happened;
descriptions of clothing/native dress/costumes worn during the experience;
have them describe the era/time of the experience (what was the belief system of the times).
These are just a few options, so before you conduct your interview you should compile a list of questions that you want to ask.
Listen carefully to their response and if possible ask questions about their answers to get more detail about the experience.
(SINCE THIS INTERVIEW IS BASED ON FAMILY HISTORY IT SHOULD BE ABOUT YOU INTERVIEWING SOMEONE HISPANIC) preferably could say you are interviewing a cousin.