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

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 musi...

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Main Author: Smarsh, Sarah (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2020.
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Parton, Dolly > Criticism and interpretation.
Country music > History and criticism.
Women in music.
Music criticism and reviews.
Biographies.
Summary: 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
Physical Description: xvi, 187 pages ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781982157289
1982157283
Author Notes: Sarah Smarsh is a journalist who has reported for The New York Times , Harper's Magazine , The Guardian , and many other publications. Her first book, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth , was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her second book, She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs , was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Smarsh is a frequent political commentator and speaker on socioeconomic class. She lives in Kansas.

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