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Memory forms the “archive” of oral culture and oral history. Since it is the living members of a culture who are repositories of its knowledge, oral cultural and oral historical research share an interest in collecting oral testimony and examining spoken memories, and they necessarily pivot on the oral interview.
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Giudice, L.D. (2009). Speaking Memory. In: Giudice, L.D. (eds) Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101395_1
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