| Edition |
First edition |
| Descript |
266 pages 23 cm |
| Series |
American music series
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American music series (Austin, Tex.)
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| Note |
Includes bibliographical references |
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"When everything fell apart for Lynn Melnick, she spent the money from her NYPL fellowship on a trip to Dollywood with her family. Melnick's trauma began long before 2018, but events of that year forced her to relive portions of it--abortions, drug abuse, rape--even as she was confronting new pain in the loss of close friends and family. Dolly Parton's music had been a balm and a source of inspiration for decades, and so the trip to Dollywood was "a personal reckoning with my traumatic, often violent past...the culmination of a difficult year that left me wanting to get to the bottom of just what it is I love and need to say about Dolly." Each chapter of this book explores some aspect of Melnick's life through the lens of one of Parton's songs. Melnick is a mother, wife, daughter, survivor, poet; this manuscript has her examining sex, sex work, religion, jealousy, class, nostalgia, aging, illness, motherhood, addiction, abortion, and art, among other topics that can be illuminated in a discussion and appreciation of Dolly's music and life"-- Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Parton, Dolly. Songs Selections
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Melnick, Lynn
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Parton, Dolly
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Kvinnliga poeter
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Women country musicians.
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Women poets.
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Biografier
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Biographies
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| Classmark |
811/.54
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| Add Title |
I have had to think up a way to survive |
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Trauma, persistence, and Dolly Parton |
| ISBN/ISSN |
9781477322673 |
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