Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index |
Notes |
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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English |
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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 |
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Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913-
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Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- -- Interviews
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SUBJECT |
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- -- Interviews
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Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913-
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Eldreth, Bessie Mae, 1913- fast |
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Women folklorists -- Appalachian Region -- Biography
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Women storytellers -- Appalachian Region -- Biography
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Folk singers -- Appalachian Region -- Biography
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Folklore -- Appalachian Region
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Folk music -- Appalachian Region
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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Folk music
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Folk singers
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Folklore
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Manners and customs
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Women folklorists
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Women storytellers
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Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs
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Appalachian Region
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autobiographies (literary works)
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interviews.
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Biographies
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Interviews
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Autobiographies.
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Interviews.
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Autobiographies.
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Interviews.
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Electronic book
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LC no. |
2004004974 |
ISBN |
0874215005 |
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9780874215007 |
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9786613283337 |
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6613283339 |
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