Music as a Vocation: Dolly Parton
1. Where was Dolly Parton born and what did her family’s life look like?
2. Describe Parton’s childhood. What events or experiences influenced her?
3. What role did the radio and music play in Parton’s childhood?
4. Parton describes being the first in her family to have many experiences:
leave home, graduate high school, earn money, etc. Have you or someone
you know been the first to do something in their family? Describe.
5. What were Parton’s musical influences? How did her upbringing shape these
influences?
6. How did Parton begin her career in music?
7. Describe Parton’s professional relationship with Porter Wagoner. How did
their dynamic help or hinder Parton's career?

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Answer:

1. Dolly Parton was born in 1946 in Locust Ridge, Tennessee in a one-room cabin, the fourth child of an illiterate sharecropper and a housewife who birthed 12 kids before she turned 35. According to this MSN look at her early life, as a girl, Parton was often peed on in the bed she shared with her younger siblings.

2. She later described her family to be economically backward.  Dolly Parton’s family was inclined towards music and she took up singing from her mother. She credits her uncle Bill Owens for supporting her for taking music as a career at a young age.

3. Dolly Parton began her professional performances at the age of 10 through television and radio shows in Knoxville, Tennessee. Later her career began flourishing in the year 1967

4. Yes, many things like some challenges I do and other things.

5. Parton's Musical Influences Though sometimes overshadowed by the more glamorous aspects of Parton's popular image, traditional Appalachian folk, country, and bluegrass music have played an important role in her life

6. Dolly Parton began her professional performances at the age of 10 through television and radio shows in Knoxville, Tennessee. Later her career began flourishing in the year 1967 when she partnered with entertainer Porter Wagoner for the Porter Wagoner Show. This partnership also helped her in receiving a musical contract from RCA Records.

7. Before she rose to fame, Parton was a singer and co-star in the Porter Wagoner Show, beginning in 1967. At that time, Wagoner was the more famous of the pair.

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