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1 online resource (266 pages) |
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American music series |
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American music series (Austin, Tex.)
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Seven Bridges Road -- Chapter One. Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That -- Chapter Two. Steady as the Rain -- Chapter Three. The Seeker -- Chapter Four. Here You Come Again -- Chapter Five. Jolene -- Chapter Six. The Grass Is Blue -- Chapter Seven. Coat of Many Colors -- Chapter Eight. Islands in the Stream -- Chapter Nine. Do I Ever Cross Your Mind -- Chapter Ten. Will He Be Waiting for Me -- Chapter Eleven. Down from Dover -- Chapter Twelve. Silver Dagger -- Chapter Thirteen. Don't Think Twice -- Chapter Fourteen. I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby -- Chapter Fifteen. Little Sparrow -- Chapter Sixteen. 9 to 5 -- Chapter Seventeen. Two Doors Down -- Chapter Eighteen. Put a Little Love in Your Heart -- Chapter Nineteen. Blue Smoke -- Chapter Twenty. The Bargain Store -- Chapter Twenty-one. The Story -- Acknowledgments. I Will Always Love You -- References and Resources |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest, viewed on March 21, 2022) |
| Subject |
Melnick, Lynn.
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Parton, Dolly.
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Parton, Dolly. Songs. Selections.
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Parton, Dolly |
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Women poets -- Biography
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Women country musicians -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
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Women country musicians
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Women poets
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1477325999 |
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9781477325995 |
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9781477326008 |
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1477326006 |
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