Listening to Old Voices

Released on by Patrick B. Mullen
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  • Listening to Old Voices Book Detail

  • Author : Patrick B. Mullen
  • Release Date : 1992
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Genre : Aged
  • Pages : 318
  • ISBN 13 : 9780252018084
  • File Size : 70,70 MB
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Listening to Old Voices by Patrick B. Mullen PDF Summary

Book Description: Patrick Mullen examines how elderly people use folk traditions to engage others and pass on their wisdom and knowledge to succeeding generations. Based on interviews with nine people in their seventies and eighties who live in rural Virginia, North Carolina, and southern Ohio, this book shows how folklore enriches people's lives. Mullen places the folklore - local legends, jokes, personal-experience narratives, family history, folk medicine, planting signs, foodways, wood carving, belief systems, customs, folk architecture - within the context of the individuals' life stories and the culture of their local communities. The analysis concentrates on recurring themes in each person's folklore and the rhetorical strategies the storytellers use to interest listeners and assure that their traditions will be passed on.

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