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Author Smarsh, Sarah, author.

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

Publication Info. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2021.
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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  LP 782.4216 PARTON    Check Shelf
Edition Center Point Large Print edition.
Description 206 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Physical Medium large print rdafs
Note Regular print version previously published by: Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Summary Smarsh challenged a typically male vision of the rural working class with her first book, Heartland, starring the bold, hard-luck women who raised her. Now, in She Come by It Natural, originally published in a four-part series for The Journal of Roots Music, No Depression, Smarsh explores the overlooked contributions to social progress by such women -- including those averse to the term "feminism" -- as exemplified by Dolly Parton's life and art. Far beyond the recently resurrected "Jolene" or quintessential "9 to 5," Parton's songs for decades have validated women who go unheard: the poor woman, the pregnant teenager, the struggling mother disparaged as "trailer trash." Parton's broader career -- from singing on the front porch of her family's cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains to achieving stardom in Nashville and Hollywood, from "girl singer" managed by powerful men to leader of a self-made business and philanthropy empire -- offers a springboard to examining the intersections of gender, class, and culture.
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.
Subject Parton, Dolly -- Criticism and interpretation.
Country music -- History and criticism.
Women in music.
Large type books.
Parton, Dolly. (OCoLC)fst00045324
Country music. (OCoLC)fst00881424
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Women in music. (OCoLC)fst01177933
Genre/Form Large type books.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Music criticism and reviews. (OCoLC)fst01919942
Music criticism and reviews.
Biographies.
ISBN 9781643587981 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
1643587986 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9781982157289
1982157283
9781982157302
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