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A discussion of White Limozeen, from Dolly's self-fashioning of her image to a rigorous critique of her genre. 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 son...

Popular Music Journalist: Easton has written widely about pop and country music for Pitchfork, Spin, and PopMatters and has two upcoming books on the subject, Why Tammy Wynette Matters for the University of Texas Press and Dolly Parton¿s White Limozeen for the prestigious 33 ¿ series. They have also written for the Globe and Mail, National Post, Slate, Atlantic, National Public Radio, and Huffington Post.Sexual Abuse in the Church: Their 2019 ...

With hits such as "Stand By Your Man? and "Golden Ring, ? Tammy Wynette was an icon of American domesticity and femininity. But there were other sides to the first lady of country. Steacy Easton places the complications of Wynette's music and her biography in sharp-edged relief, exploring how she made her sometimes-tumultuous life into her work, a transformation that was itself art. Wynette created a persona of high femininity to match the the...