Sawin, Patricia. <br/><br/>
Listening For A Life  A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories / 
Patricia Sawin. 
 - 1 online resource (xiv, 254 p.) :   ill. (some col.) ; 
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-240) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780874215007 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- --Interviews.<br/>Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Folk music--Appalachian Region.<br/>Folklore--Appalachian Region.<br/>Folk singers--Appalachian Region--Biography.<br/>Women storytellers--Appalachian Region--Biography.<br/>Women folklorists--Appalachian Region--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Appalachian Region--Social life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GR55.E53  / S397 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>398/.092  B