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Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Leigh H. Edwards
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-06 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Introduction: Dolly mythology -- "Backwoods Barbie": Dolly Parton's gender performance -- My Tennessee mountain home: early Parton and authenticity narratives -
Country Boys and Redneck Women
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Diane Pecknold
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-08 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Country music boasts a long tradition of rich, contradictory gender dynamics, creating a world where Kitty Wells could play the demure housewife and the honky-t
She Come By It Natural
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Sarah Smarsh
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-13 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In this Time Top 100 Book of the Year, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland “analyzes how Dolly Parton’s song
Reading Country Music
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: Cecelia Tichi
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. Bringing together a wide range of scholars and critics from lite
Unlikely Angel
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Lydia R. Hamessley
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-12 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Dolly Parton's success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songwriter first,