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Gone Dollywood : Dolly Parton's mountain dream / Graham Hoppe.
Van Pelt Library GV1853.3.T22 D654 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoppe, Graham, 1984- author.
- Series:
- New approaches to Appalachian studies
- New Approaches to Appalachian Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parton, Dolly.
- Dollywood (Pigeon Forge, Tenn.).
- Amusement parks--Tennessee.
- Amusement parks.
- Tennessee.
- Southern States--Social life and customs.
- Southern States.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 154 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Dolly Parton isn't just a country music superstar. She has built an empire. At the heart that empire is Dollywood, a 150-acre fantasy land that hosts three million people a year. Parton's prodigious talent and incredible celebrity has allowed her to turn her hometown into one of the most popular tourist destinations in America. The crux of Dollywood's allure is its precisely calibrated Appalachian image, itself drawn from Parton's very real hardscrabble childhood in the mountains of east Tennessee. What does Dollywood have to offer besides entertainment? What do we find if we take this remarkable place seriously? How does it both confirm and subvert outsiders' expectations of Appalachia? What does it tell us about the modern South, and in turn what does that tell us about America at large? How is regional identity molded in service of commerce, and what is the interplay of race, gender, and class when that happens? In Gone Dollywood, Graham Hoppe blends tourism studies, celebrity studies, cultural analysis, folklore, and the acute observations and personal reflections of longform journalism into an unforgettable interrogation of Southern and American identity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Mountains, parks, and nothing less than great
- Rebels, tourists, and a Tennessee mountain home
- Daisy Mae, dreams, and Dolly
- Pancakes, Paula Peen, and the Pigeon Forge Parkway
- Okra, chicken livers, and a break for dinner
- Biography, persona, and reality
- Artifice, celebrity, and learning something from Dollywood.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780821423233
- 0821423231
- OCLC:
- 1004758219
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