The Unexpected in Oral History

1. Foreword.- 2. Introduction.- Part I Scratching the Silence: The Unexpected as an Outbreak.- 3. Introduction to Part I.- 4. My Grandfather's Unknown History.- 5. Florence Richard, Childhood Sexual Violence, and the Unsettling of Local History.- 6. An Unexpected Gift: Oral History and the Documentation of Michfest.- 7. Commentary: The Elaboration of What Has Been Lived.- Part II Between Lies and Half-Truths: The Unexpected as Falsification.- 8. Introduction to Part II.- 8. The Must-See Play that so Many People Staged: A Mosaic of (False) Memories.- 10. New Looks at Old Interviews: Racism and Privilege Around Black Folk Festivities.- 11. "Sincere Lies Interest Me": The Power of Falsehood in Oral History.- 12. A Love Story That Never Happened.- 13. Commentary: Leftovers, Their Unexpected Forms, and the Act of Gleaning: Re-encounters with Interviews.- Part III Deviating Routes: The Unexpected as a Mnemonic Device.- 14. Introduction to Part III.- 15. "Who rode in my car? Who do you think? Jesus!": Subversion and Displacement in the Rereading of an Interview.- 16. Metabolizing the Leftovers of Memory.- 17. The Unexpected in an Archive: Interferences in a Soccer Memory Collection.- 18. Commentary: Revisiting Oral Sources: The Unexpected and the Anticipated in Oral History Praxis.- Part IV The Answer Is Another Subject: The Unexpected as a Generative Device.- 19. Introduction to Part IV.- 20. Looking for Heroes, I Found Conventional Workers: A Labor Community in the Argentine Dictatorship.- 21. The Devious Paths of Memory: Reflections on the Experience of Interviews with Residents of the Caparaó Sierra.- 22. "Everything Has Been Said": Surprising Encounters from Oral Histories in Ireland.- 23. Commentary: The Answer is Not Only Another Subject: It Is Also Another Set of Questions.- Part V Nothing but Surprises: The Unexpected as a Given.- 24. Introduction to Part V.- 25. The Case of the Baffling Bandit.- 26. Tragedy, Trauma, and

Ricardo Santhiago is a professor at the Institute of Cities at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), Brazil. An oral and public historian with a focus on Brazilian culture, he is the author of articles and books on Brazilian popular music, oral history methodology, urban cultures, and memory studies. He is a National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) Productivity Fellow.

Miriam Hermeto is a professor at the School of Philosophy and Human Sciences at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Her research is on the teaching of history and the memory of the Brazilian military dictatorship. Also a singer, she creates and performs historical-themed concerts that combine music and documentation.