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Listening for a life: a dialogic ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through her songs and stories
Patricia Sawin
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Frontmatter
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Preface (page ix)
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Transcription Conversions (page xiii)
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1. Introduction: Dialogism and Subjectivity (page 1)
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2. "That was before I ever left home": Complex Accounts of a Simple Childhood (page 28)
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3. "If you had to work as hard as I did, it would kill you": Work, Narrative, and Self-Definition (page 49)
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4. "I said, 'Don't you do it'": Tracing Development as an Empowered Speaker through Reported Speech in Narrative (page 68)
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5. "He never did say anything about my dreams that would worry me after that": Negotiating Gender and Power in Ghost Stories (page 98)
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6. "I'm a bad one to go pulling jokes on people": Practical Joking as a Problematic Vehicle for Oppositional Self-Definition (page 135)
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7. "My singing is my life": Repertoire and Performance (page 156)
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8. Epilogue (page 211)
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Notes (page 214)
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Works Cited (page 229)
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Index (page 241)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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WF | 67.4 (2008): 425-428 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25474944 |
JAF | 124.494 (2011): 353-355 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerfolk.124.494.0353 |
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Published: c2004
Publisher: Utah State University Press
- 9780874215007 (ebook)
- 9780874215823 (paper)