TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sawin,Patricia
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Listening For A Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories 
SN  - 9780874215007
AV  - GR55.E53 S397 2004
U1  - 398/.092B 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Logan
PB  - Utah State University Press
KW  - Eldreth, Bessie Mae,
KW  - Folk music
KW  - Appalachian Region
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Folk singers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women storytellers
KW  - Women folklorists
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/9291/
ER  -