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I've had to think up a way to survive : on trauma, persistence, and Dolly Parton
- Title
- I've had to think up a way to survive : on trauma, persistence, and Dolly Parton / Lynn Melnick.
- Author
- Melnick, Lynn
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- 266 pages; 23 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- American music series
- Uniform Title
- American music series.
- Alternative Title
- I have had to think up a way to survive
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266).
- Call Number
- JMD 22-169
- ISBN
- 9781477322673
- 1477322671
- LCCN
- 2022000739
- OCLC
- 1294152646
- Author
- Melnick, Lynn, author.
- Title
- I've had to think up a way to survive : on trauma, persistence, and Dolly Parton / Lynn Melnick.
- Publisher
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- American music seriesAmerican music series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266).
- Research Call Number
- JMD 22-169