Listening For A Life A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories / Patricia Sawin.
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TextPublisher: Utah State University Press, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 254 p.) : ill. (some col.)ISBN: 9780874215007Subject(s): 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 customsGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 398/.092 | B LOC classification: GR55.E53 | S397 2004Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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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