I've had to think up a way to survive : on trauma, persistence, and Dolly Parton

Title
  1. I've had to think up a way to survive : on trauma, persistence, and Dolly Parton / Lynn Melnick.
Published by
  1. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022.
  2. ©2022
Author
  1. Melnick, Lynn

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Description
  1. 266 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "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
  1. American music series
Uniform title
  1. American music series.
Alternative title
  1. I have had to think up a way to survive
Subject
  1. Melnick, Lynn
  2. Parton, Dolly
  3. Women poets > Biography
  4. Women country musicians > Biography
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies.
Call number
  1. JMD 22-169
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266).
Author
  1. Melnick, Lynn, author.
Title
  1. I've had to think up a way to survive : on trauma, persistence, and Dolly Parton / Lynn Melnick.
Publisher
  1. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022.
Copyright date
  1. ©2022
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. American music series
  2. American music series.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266).
LCCN
  1. 2022000739
ISBN
  1. 9781477322673 (cloth)
  2. 1477322671
Research call number
  1. JMD 22-169
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