Helen Morales, author of “Pilgrimage to Dollywood,” gave us a stern directive – look at the lyrics! So we dive into Dolly’s discography, starting with the early period of what Dolly calls “sad ass songs” to find remarkably prescient words of female pain, slut-shaming, domestic violence, and women being locked away in asylums by cheating husbands. We explore how Dolly took the centuries-old tradition of the Appalachian “murder ballad”—an oral tradition of men singing songs about brutally killing women—and flipped the script, singing from the woman’s point of view. And as her career progresses, the songs expand beyond the pain to tell tales of leaving abuse behind.
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in reply to Carsten Raddatz • • •Carsten Raddatz
in reply to Greg A. Woods • •Is it though. Except for bigger blobs of image data, and related libraries for handling those, I'd think the rest is common for participating in fedi things.
However, I don't know what I'm talking about since I haven't gone forward with my own self-hosted fedi anything yet.