Listening for a life a dialogic ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through her songs and stories
"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 di...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Logan :
Utah State University Press
2004.
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| Colección: | JSTOR Open Access monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35740073*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
