03715oam 22007454a 450 99621118630331620221206220823.01-283-28333-697866132833370-87421-500-52027/heb33324(CKB)1000000000344114(EBL)287131(OCoLC)476039932(SSID)ssj0000192939(PQKBManifestationID)11166584(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192939(PQKBWorkID)10215598(PQKB)10687387(MiAaPQ)EBC3442748(MdBmJHUP)muse16403(MiAaPQ)EBC287131(Au-PeEL)EBL287131(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/51817(dli)HEB33324(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000880(EXLCZ)99100000000034411420040302d2004 uy 0engurun#---uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierListening For A LifeA Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories /Patricia SawinUtah State University, University Libraries2004Logan :Utah State University Press,2004.©2004.1 online resource (289 pages) illustrations; digital file(s)Description based upon print version of record.Print version: 9780874215823 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.In one sense a folklorist's portrayal of a notable 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 stDialogic ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through her songs and storiesFolk musicAppalachian RegionFolkloreAppalachian RegionFolk singersAppalachian RegionBiographyWomen storytellersAppalachian RegionBiographyWomen folkloristsAppalachian RegionBiographyAppalachian RegionSocial life and customsElectronic books. Folk musicFolkloreFolk singersWomen storytellersWomen folklorists398/.092BSawin Patricia862177MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996211186303316Listening for a life1924570UNISA