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Listening For A Life: A Dialogic Ethnography Of Bessie Eldreth Through Her Songs And Stories » (1st Edition)
Authors: Patricia Sawin
ISBN-13: 9780874215823, ISBN-10: 087421582X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Patricia Sawin
Book Synopsis
Sawin (anthropology, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) applies Bahktinian and feminist theory to the work of traditional North Carolina singer and storyteller Eldreth (b. 1913). Her topics include dialogism and subjectivity, complex accounts of a simple childhood, development as an empowered speaker, negotiating gender and power in ghost stories, and practical joking as a problematic vehicle for oppositional self-definition. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Table of Contents
| Preface | ix | |
| Transcription Conventions | xiii | |
| 1 | Introduction: Dialogism and Subjectivity | 1 |
| 2 | "That was before I ever left home": Complex Accounts of a Simple Childhood | 28 |
| 3 | "If you had to work as hard as I did, it would kill you": Work, Narrative, and Self-Definition | 49 |
| 4 | "I said, 'Don't you do it'": Tracing Development as an Empowered Speaker through Reported Speech in Narrative | 68 |
| 5 | "He never did say anything about my dreams that would worry me after that": Negotiating Gender and Power in Ghost Stories | 98 |
| 6 | "I'm a bad one to go pulling jokes on people": Practical Joking as a Problematic Vehicle for Oppositional Self-Definition | 135 |
| 7 | "My singing is my life": Repertoire and Performance | 156 |
| 8 | Epilogue | 211 |
| Notes | 214 | |
| Works Cited | 229 | |
| Index | 241 |
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Entertainment
Music Books Folk Music & Traditional
History American History United States History - Southern Region
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Music Books Folk Music & TraditionalHistory
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