Dolly Parton and Sexuality

15 thoughts on “Dolly Parton and Sexuality”

1. This project was so unique and creative – I loved it. I would also like to take a moment to appreciate how much time this project must have taken with all of those songs.

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2. I can’t believe that you listened to 46 albums!! That is true dedication to a project!
   This was such a fun project. I really liked the disctinction you made between religious music and music that mentions religion.

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3. Dolly Parton is such an icon and it was super fun to read through your analysis of her discography in relation to religion. Although not all mentioned religion, it was interesting to see the connection of themes related to it! Amazing:)

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4. This project was such a great idea and props for listening to that many albums! I feel like Dolly Parton is really representative of the good, kind, and even empowering, elements in country music and traditional Christian values that can be hard to find when you think about “country” and “traditional Christian” in our society. Amazing job and super thorough!

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5. WOWOWOWOWOW! This was awesome, and so so creative. I really enjoyed how you used the work and life of a queer icon, and dissected it to show that sexuality and its discussion can be manifested in many different forms. I am reminded of some of her lyrics, which are my favourite: “And you’re no different from the others//
   A new acquaintence in the night//
   You mean no more to her than all the others she’s held tight//
   But I know she’s convinced you it was love at first sight.”
   This really shows how perfectly and subtly she was able to perfect talking about sexuality in her beautiful discography.

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6. WOWOWOWOWOW! This was awesome, and so so creative. I really enjoyed how you used the work and life of a queer icon, and dissected it to show that sexuality and its discussion can be manifested in many different forms. I am reminded of some of her lyrics, which are my favourite: “And you’re no different from the others//
   A new acquaintence in the night//
   You mean no more to her than all the others she’s held tight//
   But I know she’s convinced you it was love at first sight.”
   This really shows how perfectly and subtly she was able to perfect talking about sexuality in her beautiful discography.

   –ars

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7. This project was so creative and I loved listening to it! I think you did an amazing job to make sure that you covered her entire discography and I think your categorizations were great in helping to understand how much conversations on gender and sexuality are present in her songs. I’m definitely gonna go listen to some more of her songs now1

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8. Your presentation was very entertaining! I loved the analysis of the time periods Dolly Parton’s music was released to the religious or sexual themes in the songs in those albums. It makes one think about the subliminal messaging artists are putting out there with their own beliefs within the things that they create and whether that has any implications on the beliefs of the consumers of that media.

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9. OMG this project must have taken so much work going through all of Dolly’s music! I feel like more focus needs to be put on how music communicates ideas about sexuality. I wonder how a full Christian rock artist’s music would reflect these ideas. This was so much fun!

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10. This was such a fun project to hear about! I was really surprised about the findings with regards to Dolly Parton’s religious music- I feel like I expected there to be a reinforcement of traditional sexuality ideals, so I was definitely pleasantly surprised to find that that was not the case! I’ll admit I’ve never listened to Dolly Parton all that much but this project makes me want to seek out some of the songs you talked about and hear for myself.

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11. First of all, I genuinely admire the dedication that you listened to 500+ songs for this project which really shows you did a thoroughly remarkable job. This was so entertaining to read, I was not super informed on the themes that existed in Dolly Parton’s music so this was very fun to learn especially the how you presented the analysis of the discography with a timeline that shows the shifts in her songs’ approaches.

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12. Wow! Listening to 500+ songs for this project really shows your dedication to making sure that all of her music (or at least a good amount of it) is categorized to the best of your ability. I also loved that you included your methodology as part of your presentation, because it really gave us insight into your thought process. I’m only familiar with a few of Dolly Parton’s songs, but you have really highlighted why even though this is the case I admire her greatly. It was so interesting to hear about how Dolly’s ideologies affected her art as time went on. Well done!

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13. I was so impressed that you listened to over 500 songs for this project, wow, THAT’S DEDICATION. Either you really love Dolly or you never want to hear her voice again. Also, this was so creative – so out of the box, but, you still managed to tie it in so well with religion and sexuality, so, kudos to you.

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14. I was so excited to see the project after you described it in our small group. You did not disappoint! This project has such dedication which highlights a societal icon’s belief system, and in term it’s affect on society, in such detail. Such a creative concept that was executed so well. Great job!

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15. I genuinely am so incredibly impressed that you listened to over 500 Dolly Parton songs. That takes so much commitment. I also think she was a fantastic person to choose since she does come from a conservative background, has a very public relationship with God, but is also an ally to the queer community and very body positive. It was very interesting to learn more about her and I was a little surprised she didn’t have more songs with crossover between two parts of her identity.

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