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Listening for a life : a dialogic ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through her songs and stories /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sawin, Patricia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, [2004]
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.