Dolly Parton & the Roots of Country Music

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DOLLY PARTON

Related Web Sites:

All Music Guide: http://www.allmusic.com/
- search on "Dolly Parton" for a biography and discography

Dollymania: http://www.dollymania.net/
- for news and information on Dolly Parton

Sony Records: http://www.legacyrecordings.com/Dolly-Parton.aspx
- artist page for Dolly Parton

Sugar Hill Records: http://www.sugarhillrecords.com/catalog/artist.cgi?Dolly+Parton
- artist page for Dolly Parton

Selected Bibliography:

Berman, Connie. The Official Dolly Parton Scrapbook. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. ML420.P28 B4

Caraeff, Ed. Dolly: Close Up/Up Close. Photographed by Ed Caraeff; text by Richard Amdur. New York: Delilah Communications, 1983. ML420.P28 C37 1983

DeMain, Bill. Behind the Muse: Pop and Rock's Greatest Songwriters Talk About Their Work and Inspiration. Cranberry Township, Pa.: Tiny Ripple Books, 2001. ML385. D326 2001

Fleischer, Leonore. Dolly, Here I Come Again. New York: Paperjacks, 1987. CPB Box no. 1866 vol. 14 Copyright Pbk Coll.

James, Otis. Dolly Parton. New York: Quick Fox, 1978. ML420.P28J3

Keely, Scott. Dolly Parton. [Mankato, Minn.]: Creative Education, 1979. ML3930.P25 K4

Krishef, Robert K. Dolly Parton. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 1980. ML3930.P25 K7

Nash, Alanna. Dolly. 1st ed. Los Angeles: Reed Books, 1978. ML420.P28 N4

Nash, Alanna. Dolly: The Biography. Updated ed. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. ML420.P28 N4 2002

Parton, Dolly. Coat of Many Colors. Illustrated by Judith Sutton. New York: Harper Collins, 1994. PZ8.3.P2714 Co 1994 FT MEADE

Parton, Dolly. Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business. New York: Harper Collins, 1994. ML420.P28 A3 1994

Parton, Willadeene. In The Shadow of a Song: the Story of the Parton Family. New York: Bantam Books, 1985. CT274.P37 W55 1985

Pasternak, Judith Mahoney. Dolly. New York: MetroBooks, 1998. ML420.P28 P37 1998

Saunders, Susan. Dolly Parton, Country Goin’ to Town. New York: Viking Kestrel, 1985. ML3930.P25 S3 1985

Wolfe, Charles K., and James E. Akenson, eds. The Women of Country Music: a Reader. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2003. ML394.W65 2003

COUNTRY MUSIC

Library of Congress Web Resources:

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection from the American Folklife Center (American Memory)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrhome.html

Birthplace of Country Music: The Bristol Music Story (Local Legacies)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/VA/200003609.html

Birthplace of Country Music (America's Library)
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/tn/bristol_1/

Grand Ole Opry (Local Legacies)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/TN/200003532.html

Ole Time Fiddler’s and Bluegrass Festival (America's Library)
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/nc/banjo_1/

Bluegrass Odyssey (Lecture given by Neil Rosenberg and Carl Fleischhauer)
http://www.loc.gov/locvideo/bluegrass/

Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival in Monroe County (Local Legacies)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/IN/200002995.html

Telluride Bluegrass Festival (Local Legacies)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/CO/200002784.html

Published Recordings from the Archive of Folk Culture
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/rec.html

Related Web Sites:

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/

Roughstock’s History of Country Music
http://www.roughstock.com/history/

All Music Guide (Click on “country” or “bluegrass”)
http://www.allmusic.com/

Birthplace of Country Music Alliance
http://www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/

Center for Appalachian Studies and Services, East Tennessee State University
http://www.etsu.edu/cass/

The Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University
http://popmusic.mtsu.edu/

East Tennessee State University Bluegrass and Country Music Program
http://www.etsu.edu/cass/bluegrass/

Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/sinv.html

Selected Bibliography:

Numerous books are available on country and bluegrass music and its performers. The following is only a small selection of what is available at the Library of Congress and other libraries nationwide.

Bogdanov, Vladimir, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, and Chris Woodstra, eds. All Music Guide to Country: The Definitive Guide to Country. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2003. ML156.4.C7 A45 2003

Brown, Charles T. Music U.S.A.: America's Country and Western Tradition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986. ML3524.B76 1986

Bufwack, Mary A., and Robert K. Oermann. Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000. Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press, Vanderbilt University Press, 2003. ML3524.B83 2003

Carr, Patrick, ed. The Illustrated History of Country Music. Garden City, N.Y.: Random House/Times Books, 1995. ML3524.I45 1995

Country Music Magazine. The Comprehensive Country Music Encyclopedia. New York: Times Books/Random House, 1994. ML102.C7 C6 1994

Dellar, Fred, and Alan Lackett. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music. New York: Harmony Books, 1977. ML102.C7 D4

Ellison, Curtis W. Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995. ML3524.E4 1995

Fleischhauer, Carl and Neil V. Rosenberg. Bluegrass Odyssey: A Documentary in Pictures and Words, 1966-86. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2001. ML3520 .F6 2001

Green, Douglas B. Country Roots: The Origins of Country Music. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1976. ML3561.C69 G73

Hill, Fred. Grass Roots: An Illustrated History of Bluegrass and Mountain Music. Rutland, Vt.: Academy Books, 1980. ML3520.H54

Kingsbury, Paul, ed. The Country Reader: Twenty-five Years of the "Journal of Country Music." Nashville: The Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press, 1996. ML3524.C78 1996

Kingsbury, Paul, Alan Axelrod, and Susan Costello, eds. Country: The Music and the Musicians: From the Beginnings to the '90s. New York: Abbeville Press, 1994. ML3524.C66 1994

Kochman, Marilyn. The Big Book of Bluegrass. New York: W. Morrow, 1984. ML3520.B53 1984

Malone, Bill C. Country Music U.S.A. 2nd rev. ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. ML3524.M34 2002

Malone, Bill C. Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993. ML3551.M26 1993

McCardell, Charles, ed. Classic Country: The Golden Age of Country Music: The '20s through the '70s. Irvington, N.Y.: Hydra Publishing, 2003. ML400.C492 2003

Millard, Bob. Country Music: Seventy-five Years of America's Favorite Music. New York: Da Capo Press, 1999. ML3524.M53 1999

Peterson, Richard A. Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. ML3524.P48 1997

Porterfield, Nolan, ed. Exploring Roots Music: Twenty Years of the "JEMF Quarterly." Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004. ML3524.E9 2004

Price, Steven D. Old as the Hills: The Story of Bluegrass Music. New York: Viking Press, 1975. ML3561.B62 P7

Richards, Tad, and Melvin B. Shestack. The New Country Music Encyclopedia. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. ML102.C7 R5 1993

Rosenberg, Neil V. Bluegrass: A History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. ML3520.R67 1985

Stambler, Irwin, and Grelun Landon. Country Music: The Encyclopedia. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. ML102.C7 S7 1997

Stambler, Irwin, and Grelun Landon. The Encyclopedia of Folk, Country, and Western Music. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983. ML102.F66 S7 1983

Tichi, Cecelia. High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. ML3524.T5 1994