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She come by it natural : Dolly Parton and the women who lived her songs

Title

She come by it natural : Dolly Parton and the women who lived her songs / Sarah Smarsh.

Author

Smarsh, Sarah

Publication

New York : Scribner, 2020.
©2020

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Description

xvi, 187 pages; 19 cm

Summary

Explores how the music of Dolly Parton and other prominent women country artists has both reflected and validated the harsh realities of rural working-class American women.
Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Smarsh witnessed firsthand the vulnerabilities and strengths of women in working poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists played in the background, telling powerful stories about life, men, hard times, and surviving. Country music was a language among women-- and no one provided that language better than Dolly Parton. Here Smarsh explores the overlooked contributions to social progress by such women as exemplified by Dolly Parton's life and art. She shows how Parton's song offer a springboard to examining the intersections of gender, class, and culture. -- adapted from jacket

Subject

Genre/Form

Music criticism and reviews.
Biographies.
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Music criticism and reviews
Comptes rendus de musique.

Contents

Part one. Dolly Parton embodies the working woman's fight -- Part two. Dolly Parton masters the art of leaving -- Part three. Dolly Parton becomes the boss -- Part four. Dolly Parton cements her icon status.

ISBN

9781982157289
1982157283
9781982157296
1982157291

OCLC

on1143646885
1143646885
SCSB-13649955

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library