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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.

Publication Info. Logan : Utah State University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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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Subject Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913-
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- -- Interviews.
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- (OCoLC)fst00337177
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.
Eldreth, Bessie Mae.
Folk music.
Folk singers.
Folklore.
Women folklorists.
Women storytellers.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
Folk music. (OCoLC)fst00929383
Folk singers. (OCoLC)fst01198495
Folklore. (OCoLC)fst00930306
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Women folklorists. (OCoLC)fst01177689
Women storytellers. (OCoLC)fst01178579
Appalachian Region. (OCoLC)fst01240092
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
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.)
087421582X (paperback;) (alk. paper)
9780874215823 (paperback;) (alk. paper)
1283283336
9781283283335
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