Listening For A Life
A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories
by Patricia Sawin
Description
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 storyteller Bessie Eldreth and her greatest art, herself.

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Bibliographic Information
- Imprint Utah State University Press
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780874215823 / 087421582X
- Publication Country or regionUSA / United States of America
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price $20.95
- Pages268
- ReadershipGeneral - Trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- Biblio NotesPublished 07/02/2008
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