04277nam 22005175 450 991086196650332120231110212617.01-4773-2599-910.7560/322673(CKB)5680000000051856(DE-B1597)634200(DE-B1597)9781477325995(MiAaPQ)EBC7014796(Au-PeEL)EBL7014796(OCoLC)1330933174(EXLCZ)99568000000005185620220830h20222022 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierI've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton /Lynn MelnickAustin : University of Texas Press, [2022]©20221 online resource (276 p.)American Music Series1-4773-2267-1 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Seven Bridges Road -- Chapter One. Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That -- Chapter Two. Steady as the Rain -- Chapter Three. The Seeker -- Chapter Four. Here You Come Again -- Chapter Five. Jolene -- Chapter Six. The Grass Is Blue -- Chapter Seven. Coat of Many Colors -- Chapter Eight. Islands in the Stream -- Chapter Nine. Do I Ever Cross Your Mind -- Chapter Ten. Will He Be Waiting for Me -- Chapter Eleven. Down from Dover -- Chapter Twelve. Silver Dagger -- Chapter Thirteen. Don’t Think Twice -- Chapter Fourteen. I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby -- Chapter Fifteen. Little Sparrow -- Chapter Sixteen. 9 to 5 -- Chapter Seventeen. Two Doors Down -- Chapter Eighteen. Put a Little Love in Your Heart -- Chapter Nineteen. Blue Smoke -- Chapter Twenty. The Bargain Store -- Chapter Twenty-one. The Story -- Acknowledgments. I Will Always Love You -- References and ResourcesWhen everything fell apart for Lynn Melnick, she went to Dollywood. It was perhaps an unusual refuge. The theme park, partly owned by and wholly named for Dolly Parton, celebrates a country music legend who grew up in church and in poverty in rural Tennessee. Yet Dollywood is exactly where Melnick—a poet, urbanite, and daughter of a middle-class Jewish family—needed to be. Because Melnick, like the musician she adores, is a survivor. In this bracing memoir, Melnick explores Parton’s dual identities as feminist icon and objectified sex symbol—identities that reflect the author’s own fraught history with rape culture and the grueling effort to reclaim her voice in the wake of loss and trauma. Each chapter engages with the artistry and cultural impact of one of Parton’s songs, as Melnick reckons with violence, creativity, parenting, abortion, sex work, love, and the consolations and cruelties of religion. Guided by Parton’s music, Melnick walks the slow path to recovery in the company of those who came before her and stand with her, as trauma is an experience both unique and universal. Candid and discerning, I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive is at once a memoir and a love song—a story about one life and about an artist who has brought life to millions.American Music Women country musiciansBiographyWomen poetsBiographyBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / GeneralbisacshDollywood, Dolly Parton, country music, women's trauma, addiction, rape culture, intimate partner violence, sex work, trauma recovery, pop culture, domestic violence, poetry, poet, sexual assault, memoir writing, reproductive rights, feminist media, country music performers, women in country music, women in music, abortion, recovery, music memoirs, music memoir, Jewish writers, Jewish literature, playlist, friendship, parenting, women’s voices.Women country musiciansWomen poetsBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.811.6Melnick Lynn, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1741466DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910861966503321I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive4167498UNINA