AUDIO DOCUMENTS WORKSHOPO

The Audiodocument Laboratory is a course of the Master's Degree in History from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era, placed in the section of the curriculum relating to functional knowledge for entry into the world of work. It is also open to students from other Master's programmes, subject to the approval of the corresponding Teaching Committee.
It does not provide for a final examination, but the acquisition of an aptitude qualification (equivalent to 3 CFU), which is recognised at the end of the course on the basis of the work carried out. For this reason, participation is strongly recommended and an expression of interest is required to be sent to casellat@unive.it by 15 December 2025.

- to acquire awareness of the peculiarities of audiodocuments
- to acquire knowledge on how to archive and preserve audio records
- to develop skills in the field of Public History
- to learn basic digital editing techniques

There are no prerequisites, but it is recommended that students have taken Contemporary History exams during the BA. Prior knowledge of Oral History methods is particularly valuable. Each student must also have a personal computer.

The Laboratory aims to teach how to recognise, analyse and valorise the variety of sound documents for historical research and communication through the creation of podcasts.
It will teach what documents and sound archives are, how to describe and metadata them, how to transcribe them thanks to AI-based applications, how to design and realise a radio podcast.
The teaching methodology is that of learning by doing: moments of classroom training will be alternated with moments of individual work and others of group and collaborative work.
There will be 9 classroom meetings of 3 full hours per week (+ one day of field research on 1 May), and approximately 40 hours of individual and group work (for a total of 75 hours).
Some meetings of a theoretical and practical nature - also with guests, one in the field - are dedicated to recognising the implications of the sound dimension and oral communication in the construction of social and political relations.
The meetings dedicated to the creation of a radio podcast will be held in the classroom under the guidance of a professional who will accompany participants in their knowledge of podcasts and in the practice of digital editing, and then in the writing of the subject, the conception of the script, and finally in the editing of the final product, which this year will focus on the history of a free radio station of the 1970s (Radio Treviso 103), through the sound documents that have remained or that can be produced.

Texts and other materials adopted during the Laboratory will be made available in the Moodle space.

It is required to read Marcello Lorrai's short essay, La breve primavera della radio locale: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/la-breve-primavera-della-radio-locale_(L'Italia-e-le-sue-Regioni)/#Bibliografia

Prior listening to podcasts of historical content and social enquiry, available on the main platforms (Raiplay Sound, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker) is highly recommended.

Clausura, di Sergio Zavoli, 1957
Outis Topos. Ovvero una ipotesi per una radio futura, di Andrea Camilleri e Sergio Liberovici, 1974
Storie di magliari, di Marcello Anselmo e Pietro Marcello, 2019
Le lotte del Cormôr. Un garbato sciopero alla rovescia, di Renato Rinaldi, 2020
Strade di Porto Marghera, di Gilda Zazzara, 2020
Sostanza di cose sperate. Voci e storie dal processo 7 aprile, di Massimo e Ivan Carozzi, 2021
Girolamo Li Causi: il fantasma di una voce, di Alessandro Casellato e Gilda Zazzara, 2024 (disponibile sul portale Phaidra all’indirizzo https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/view/o:539642 )

Reference books
Marta Perrotta, Tiziano Bonini, Che cos’è un podcast, Carocci, Roma 2023
Tavolo permanente per le fonti orali, Vademecum per il trattamento delle fonti orali, Ministero della Cultura-Direzione Generale Archivi, 2023,
https://dgagaeta.cultura.gov.it/public/uploads/documents/Quaderni/65378110481ed.pdf
Documenti sonori. Voce, suono, musica in archivi e raccolte, a cura di Dimitri Brunetti, Diego Robotti, Elisa Salvalaggio, Centro studi piemontesi, Torino 2021
Andrea Sangiovanni, Radiodays. La radio in Italia da Marconi al web, il Mulino, Bologna 2024
Jacopo Tomatis, Bella ciao. Una canzone, uno spettacolo, un disco, il Saggiatore, Milano 2024
Alessandro Portelli, Badlands. Springsteen e l'America: il lavoro e i sogni, Donzelli, Roma 2015
David Hendy, Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening, Profile Books 2013
Franco Castelli, Emilio Jona, Alberto Lovatto, Senti le rane che cantano. Canzoni e vissuti popolari della risaia, Donzelli, Roma 2005
Cesare Bermani, Una storia cantata. 1962-1997: trentacinque anni di attività del Nuovo canzoniere italiano, Istituto Ernesto de Martino-Jaca book, Sesto Fiorentino-Milano 1997

Oral verification of the attendance at the meetings, participation in the workshop, conduct of activities in itinere and realisation of the podcast.

oral

There is no vote but only a final approval.

Workshops with classroom discussion; training in digital editing technique, group work.

1. All students must register on Moodle.
2. It is necessary to register for the final roll call at the end of the workshop to obtain the qualification.
3. Students who have attended the Laboratory but have not obtained the qualification may exceptionally be able to obtain it in a later examination. This will be decided on a case-by-case basis by the lecturer.