Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth Through Her Songs and Stories

by Patricia Sawin

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087421582X
• ISBN13: 9780874215823
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"