Listening For A Life [electronic resource] : A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories / Patricia Sawin.
Material type: TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Logan : Utah State University Press, c2004. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 254 p. :) ill. (some col.)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 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
- 398/.092 B 22
- GR55.E53 S397 2004
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.
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