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The article offers a platform that combines philosophical, communication studies and embodied dance studies as an interdisciplinary approach toward understanding the embodied oral history interview.
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Theories, methods and practices of qualitative interviewing can be expanded to include the role of embodied communication channels. These new data offer potentially aligned or contradictory information in combination with lexical communication, providing additional opportunities for fuller understanding of communicative dialogic transaction.
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Qualitative interviewing has become an important tool for bringing often under-represented populations and their perspectives to research. One aspect of those populations is how their embodied experiences frame lack of representation, i.e., class-based discrimination for manual laborers, gender-based misogyny for women and non-binary/non-conforming gendered populations, and sexuality difference, among others. In particular, dance practice is one way where creative research can represent well those embodied lives. Qualitative interviews with dance-related populations offers new ways to delve into those creative research projects.
Associate Professor of Dance Studies Jeff Friedman
Rutgers-New Brunswick
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This page is a summary of: Oral History, Hermeneutics, and Embodiment, The Oral History Review, September 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1093/ohr/ohu034.
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