Pilgrimage to Dollywood
A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee
192 pages
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24 halftones, 4 maps
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2014
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
1 Caviar and Fish Sticks
2 A Series of Cravings
Graceland and Other Shrines, Memphis
3 Country Is as Country Does
Loretta Lynn’s Ranch, Hurricane Mills
4 Music City, USA
Nashville
5 Tennessee Mountain Homes
Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Sevierville, and Locust Ridge
6 Color Me America
Dixie Stampede, Pigeon Forge
7 Sifting Specks of Gold
Dollywood Amusement Park, the Great Smoky Mountains
Doing the Pilgrimage
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
2 A Series of Cravings
Graceland and Other Shrines, Memphis
3 Country Is as Country Does
Loretta Lynn’s Ranch, Hurricane Mills
4 Music City, USA
Nashville
5 Tennessee Mountain Homes
Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Sevierville, and Locust Ridge
6 Color Me America
Dixie Stampede, Pigeon Forge
7 Sifting Specks of Gold
Dollywood Amusement Park, the Great Smoky Mountains
Doing the Pilgrimage
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Review Quotes
Times Higher Education
“Part quirky travelogue, part study of celebrity culture, part autobiography, Pilgrimage to Dollywood is a witty and self-aware account of being transplanted into an alien culture and deciding to revel in its (and one’s own) otherness.”
Times Literary Supplement
“The heart of the book is Morales’s personal meditation on the Dollywood shrine itself, the theme park for feminism, Christianity, and the Old South, its mythical log-cabin home, its worshippers at the Dolly Dollar cash-tills, and the reputation of the whole (deserved or not: discuss) as ‘the redneck Disneyland.’ This is cultural criticism on holiday . . . frank, self-revelatory, comic and clever, revealing greater identification with the heroine than her day job traditionally allows.”
Times (UK)
“’This is not a book written from the Olympic heights of an objective observer,’ writes Morales in the introduction to her funny, engaging and erudite book. ‘I confess up front that I love Dolly Parton and her music.’”
Bust
“It’ll make you want to experience your own pilgrimage, with the windows down and ‘Jolene’ blaring.”
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