Listening For A Life
Sawin, Patricia.
Listening For A Life A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories / [electronic resource] : Patricia Sawin. - Logan : Utah State University Press, c2004. - 1 online resource (xiv, 254 p. :) ill. (some col.) ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-240) and index.
Introduction : dialogism and subjectivity -- "That was before I ever left home" : complex accounts of a simple childhood -- "If you had to work as hard as I did, it would kill you" : work, narrative, and self-definition -- "I said, 'don't you do it'" : tracing development as an empowered speaker through reported speech in narrative -- "He never did say anything about my dreams that would worry me after that" : negotiating gender and power in ghost stories -- "I'm a bad one to go pulling jokes on people" : practical joking as a problematic vehicle for oppositional self-definition -- "My singing is my life" : repertoire and performance -- Epilogue.
9780874215007
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- --Interviews.
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913-
Folk music--Appalachian Region.
Folklore--Appalachian Region.
Folk singers--Appalachian Region--Biography.
Women storytellers--Appalachian Region--Biography.
Women folklorists--Appalachian Region--Biography.
Appalachian Region--Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
GR55.E53 / S397 2004
398/.092 B
Listening For A Life A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories / [electronic resource] : Patricia Sawin. - Logan : Utah State University Press, c2004. - 1 online resource (xiv, 254 p. :) ill. (some col.) ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-240) and index.
Introduction : dialogism and subjectivity -- "That was before I ever left home" : complex accounts of a simple childhood -- "If you had to work as hard as I did, it would kill you" : work, narrative, and self-definition -- "I said, 'don't you do it'" : tracing development as an empowered speaker through reported speech in narrative -- "He never did say anything about my dreams that would worry me after that" : negotiating gender and power in ghost stories -- "I'm a bad one to go pulling jokes on people" : practical joking as a problematic vehicle for oppositional self-definition -- "My singing is my life" : repertoire and performance -- Epilogue.
9780874215007
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- --Interviews.
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913-
Folk music--Appalachian Region.
Folklore--Appalachian Region.
Folk singers--Appalachian Region--Biography.
Women storytellers--Appalachian Region--Biography.
Women folklorists--Appalachian Region--Biography.
Appalachian Region--Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
GR55.E53 / S397 2004
398/.092 B