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Oral History Interview with Naomie Rudelson, July 13, 2020

Description: Interview with Naomi Rudelson, a former department store executive from New Orleans, Louisiana. Rudelson discusses involvement with the fashion industry in Dallas, starting with work as an assistant to a personal shopper and eventually becoming vice president of several different department stores. Rudelson also describes designing a curriculum for students at the University of North Texas, and the work environment at Dalton's department store, Sanger-Harris, Winkleman's in Detroit, and May Com… more
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Date: July 13, 2020
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Becker, Annette & Rudelson, Naomi
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Tracy Hayes, October 29, 2020

Description: Interview with Tracy Hayes, former writer and editor for the Dallas Morning News from Dallas, Texas. Hayes discusses her background and family, change in the fashion industry over time, being hired at the Dallas Morning News, becoming the founding editor of FD Luxe, a monthly fashion magazine, covering fashion shows, and her current life and interest in fashion.
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Date: October 29, 2020
Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Becker, Annette & Hayes, Tracy
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Traditional narrative about a poor old lady and a magician

Description: This is a story of a destitute old lady who had two sons, and she could barely feed them. After some time, an aged man comes to that old lady and asks her to hand over her sons to him to raise them. The old woman agrees to this while saying that she’ll keep one of them when they became adults, whereas he can take the other one. The old man — who was a magician — takes care of them. He educates one, whereas he keeps the other for household chores, who later learns magic from him. The latter is d… more
Date: November 26, 2020
Duration: 5 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Partner: UNT College of Information

Oral History Interview with Nan Alexander, July 22, 2020

Description: Interview with Nan (Barbara) Alexander, a former model and executive at Neiman Marcus. Alexander discusses her background, beginning work in the fashion industry as a store model, her education, working as a sample model and "Girl Friday" at Howard Wolf Inc. in Fair Park, being a sportswear model at Neiman Marcus, the layout of the store, the apparel market, and the history of fashion in the DFW area.
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Date: July 22, 2020
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Becker, Annette & Alexander, Barbara
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Conversation with the Naṭ community women in Karmaini village

Description: This is a conversation in Karmainī village, situated in the floodplains of the Ghaghra river in North of Azamgarh, with the women of the Naṭ community. They hail from a nearby village named Nakkīb Khojaulī, and identify themselves as (Sunni) Muslims. Badrun Nisa and Sharfun Nisa start by describing why they’ve come to Karmaini. Mateenuddin, Maaz’s grandfather, asks them to narrate how their community was provided with essential supplies during lockdown due to COVID-19. They do so, after which S… more
Date: November 12, 2020
Duration: 4 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation in Ladhuwāī̃ village

Description: This is a conversation initially between Munni, her sister, Maaz, and his uncle when they visit her home in Ladhuwāī̃ village. Munni is the wife of Naushad, who has worked with the Maaz’s family for several decades. After a while, Mr. Naushad arrives, and he too joins the conversation.
Date: January 29, 2020
Duration: 23 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about a scam

Description: This is a narrative by Muhammad Aslam (a 38-year old male teacher) about a scam. Once someone called a friend of Muhammad Aslam and told him that he had received a prize. The gentleman (the speaker's friend) was very happy. The caller at the other end asked him to top up credit on his mobile phone, and he did so. After losing some money he understood that it was a scam. The other speaker present during this recording is Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 39-year old male shopkeeper).
Date: August 18, 2020
Duration: 5 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Aurangzeb
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation with Shahida Bano about changing times, language, Sonwārā village, and relatives

Description: This is a conversation between four people in Sonwārā, the researcher’s village. Maaz, accompanied by his cousin Noman, visits Shahida Bano to document some folk songs mostly sung on the occasion of marriages. Rehana Bano—the neighbor of Shahida Bano—on noticing some folksongs being sung and recording taking place, joins the gathering at the request of Shahida. Maaz and Noman then ask her to brief them on topics such as changing times, a description of the demography of the village Sonwārā, the… more
Date: January 29, 2020
Duration: 11 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Partner: UNT College of Information
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