Record #:

35964

Author(s):

Sawin, Patricia E.

Abstract:

To Bessie Eldreth, music was a cultural and family legacy that tied her to the past and told her who she was. It was also a legacy to which she added liberally, so that her repertoire memorialized her particular passage through eighty years of the twentieth century.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994, p70-72

Subject(s):

Folk singers