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Gone Dollywood : Dolly Parton's mountain dream / Graham Hoppe.

by Hoppe, Graham, 1984-

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Ohio University Press, 2018.

791.06876 H798g

Amusement parks -- Tennessee.

Dollywood (Pigeon Forge, Tenn.)

Southern States -- Social life and customs.

New approaches to Appalachian studies.

9780821423233 (hc.)

154 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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 has turned her hometown into one of the most popular tourist destinations in America. The crux of Dollywood's allure is its precisely calibrated Appalachian image, drawn from Parton's hardscrabble childhood in east Tennessee. 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 about America? 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 acute observations and personal reflections into an interrogation of Southern and American identity. "--From publisher.

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