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

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dc.contributor.authorSawin, Patricia, author
dc.contributor.authorUtah State University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:46:12Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:46:12Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references and index.
dc.description.abstractIn one sense a folklorist's portrayal of a folk artist's life and art, Listening for a Life is equally a rethinking of the processes involved in such work, not only in how the folklorist conveys her subject but in how her subject constitutes and performs herself into being through dialogue with others: those present, those once present, those imagined and anticipated. Drawing on Bahktinian and feminist theory, Sawin pushes forward our understanding of the interactive roles of ethnographer and subject and in the process gives us a deeper understanding of folk singer and storyteller Bessie Eldreth and her greatest art, herself.--Book jacket.
dc.description.tableofcontentsIntroduction: 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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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/87776
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subject.lcshWomen folklorists -- Appalachian Region -- Biography
dc.subject.lcshWomen storytellers -- Appalachian Region -- Biography
dc.subject.lcshFolk singers -- Appalachian Region -- Biography
dc.subject.lcshFolklore -- Appalachian Region
dc.subject.lcshFolk music -- Appalachian Region
dc.subject.lcshAppalachian Region -- Social life and customs
dc.subject.lcshEldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913-
dc.subject.lcshEldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- -- Interviews
dc.titleListening for a life: a dialogic ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through her songs and stories
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