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Author Sawin, Patricia.

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

Imprint Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2004.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : illustrations (some color)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
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Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index.
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.
Summary "In 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."--Jacket
Note Print version record.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Language English.
Access Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). WlAbNL
Terms Of Use Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
Subject Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913-
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- -- Interviews.
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- -- Interviews.
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913-
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913-
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- -- Entretiens.
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgMFdtb4GMK3yPmh6QTHC
Women folklorists -- Appalachian Region -- Biography.
Women storytellers -- Appalachian Region -- Biography.
Folk singers -- Appalachian Region -- Biography.
Folklore -- Appalachian Region.
Folk music -- Appalachian Region.
Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs.
Femmes folkloristes -- Appalaches -- Biographies.
Conteuses -- Appalaches -- Biographies.
Chanteuses de folklore -- Appalaches -- Biographies.
Folklore -- Appalaches.
Musique folklorique -- Appalaches.
Appalaches -- Mœurs et coutumes.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
Folk music
Folk singers
Folklore
Manners and customs
Women folklorists
Women storytellers
Appalachian Region
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
interviews.
Biographies
Interviews
Autobiographies.
Interviews.
Autobiographies.
Interviews.
Other Form: Print version: Sawin, Patricia. Listening for a life. Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2004004974 (OCoLC)54544181
ISBN 0874215005 (electronic bk.)
9780874215007 (electronic bk.)
9786613283337
6613283339
087421582X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780874215823 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1283283336
9781283283335
Standard No. AU@ 000051378821
DEBSZ 396108806
GBVCP 1008654191
UKMGB 020143364
AU@ 000069027992

 
    
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