Dolly Parton's America

WNYC Studios & OSM Audio

Music History, Nashville, Music, Tennessee, Society & Culture, Parton, Documentary, America, Dolly

4.6 • 17.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

At the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, we drop in on a history class called “Dolly Parton’s America.” (We borrowed the name for our series!) Taught by Dr. Lynn Sacco, the class is filled with college students who grew up in rural Appalachia, many of whom are the first in their families to attend college. Dr Sacco gives the class an assignment: Write an essay that answers the question “What is Dolly Parton’s America?” Lurking just behind that question are thornier ones about Southern shame and identity and hillbillies and football and...well, Dolly. Is Dolly helping or hurting us? The class splits down the middle.

Editor’s Note: We made two corrections to this podcast, originally released on December 3. In referring to the location of the Battle of Blair Mountain, we changed “Southwestern Virginia” to “West Virginia.” And on the origin of the term redneck, we inserted narration that makes clear that the etymology of the term goes back farther than the Battle of Blair Mountain.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Shima Oliyae, the producer of Dolly Parton's America.
0:03.6	Before we jump into today's episode, I wanted to give a large big loud thank you to
0:10.0	everyone who's been listening, enjoying, telling your friends about it.
0:13.5	As you might know, this series was funded by WNYC Studios, Public Radio, which means
0:19.3	it's ultimately funded by listeners like you.
0:22.9	If you like the series, if you've been enjoying it so far, and you'd like to hear more
0:27.4	in the future,
0:28.9	we've made a really easy way for you to donate.
0:32.1	You can either text the word Dolly to 70101, we'll text you with a link on how you can support,
0:38.8	or you can go to dollypartonsamerica.org, slash donate, and make a contribution.
0:43.6	Anyway, thank you again so much for listening, and on to the show.
0:48.9	I'm Chad Abumarad, this is Dolly Parton's America Episode 7.
0:56.9	Dolly Parton's America, a cycle of condination and salvation.
1:01.3	In the next two episodes, we're going to tackle some of the trickier aspects of the Dolly
1:05.6	verse.
1:06.6	The Hilbali is a caricature of Appalachian stereotypes.
1:09.3	Questions about the South.
1:10.3	Kumuun shines for a living, doesn't know how to read, identity, and likely has sex with
1:14.6	his cousin.
1:15.6	And there's no mention of slavery.
1:17.9	This is part of the reason why Charlottesville happened.
1:21.6	Race.
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