Abstract to the Interview
The tapes for this interview have two tracks: a voice track containing the discussion and a time track containing time announcements at intervals of approximately five seconds. The abstract below lists, in order of discussion, the topics covered on each tape, and indicates the time-marking at which point the beginning of the particular discussion appears.
Thus, the researcher, by using a tape recorder's fast-forward button, may find expeditiously and listen to discrete segments without listening to all of the taped discussion. For instance, the user who wishes to listen to the topic on “Fountain City a German Town” should locate the place on the second track of tape one, side one, where the voice announces the 07:50 time-marking (the voice says at this point, “seven minutes fifty seconds”), and at this point switch to the first track to hear the discussion. The discussion on “Fountain City a German Town” continues until approximately 10:25, at which point discussion of the next topic (“Boat Yard Workers Patronize Golden Frog”) begins.
Notice that in most cases, sentences beneath each headline explain more about the contents of the topic. For example, the sentence underneath “Fountain City a German Town” gives further details on what appears on the tape between 07:50 and 10:25.
The abstract is designed to provide only a brief outline of the content of the tapes and cannot serve as a substitute for listening to them. However, the abstract will help the researcher to locate easily distinct topics and discussion among the many minutes of commentary.
