Dolly Parton - exemplified the white trash persona - bleached hair, enlarged breasts, tight-fitting clothing, etc.
"Parton's big breasts are like Blaze Starr's, just pantry peoprt of a smart country girls' ample challenge to convenient taste" (258).
"Parton is most powerful when she explots her backwoodiness, when she willingly makes herself the rural scapegoat of urban good taste" (258).
"Country people take power from her power, and working people adore her. She's 9-to-5, just like them. She was one of Ms. magazine's thirteen Women of the Year in 1986, honored especially for "creating popular songs about real women" and "for bringing jobs and understanding to the mountain people of Tennesee" (259).
"So should we be glad we have a highly successful hillbilly scapegoat? Or should we be sad that her potential power is so easily marginalized and controlled? There is no one answer. The answer is both. And that's the pain" (259).
Indeed, Dolly Parton fully embraces the "trash" of where she came from, considering the bleached curls and plastic-doll appearance to be beautiful.
"Parton's big breasts are like Blaze Starr's, just pantry peoprt of a smart country girls' ample challenge to convenient taste" (258).
"Parton is most powerful when she explots her backwoodiness, when she willingly makes herself the rural scapegoat of urban good taste" (258).
"Country people take power from her power, and working people adore her. She's 9-to-5, just like them. She was one of Ms. magazine's thirteen Women of the Year in 1986, honored especially for "creating popular songs about real women" and "for bringing jobs and understanding to the mountain people of Tennesee" (259).
"So should we be glad we have a highly successful hillbilly scapegoat? Or should we be sad that her potential power is so easily marginalized and controlled? There is no one answer. The answer is both. And that's the pain" (259).
Indeed, Dolly Parton fully embraces the "trash" of where she came from, considering the bleached curls and plastic-doll appearance to be beautiful.