"White Limozeen (1989) was a commercial recovery after Dolly Parton's first major failure two years previously with the release of Rainbow. This book is a case study in how an album is sold and a persona constructed. The album had a complex relationship to the country music genre at a time when the genre was in the middle of major sonic and cultural shifts, and it represents how country music saw itself. The album reflects dense and complex production, shredding ideas of purity, studio craft, slickness, and authenticity. To study this is to investigate Dolly's calculated role in self-fashioning her image into the icon she is today"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
1. Returning to Some Kind of Country
2. White (Emphasis on White) Limozeen
3. Regional Tensions
4. Money
5. Impure Purity
6. Back to Whose Country?
7. What's So Traditional About Neo-traditionalism?
8. Anointed
Conclusion
Coda
