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summer 2007

The Girl Singer by Marianne Worthington

From the Summer 2007 issue
“The Girl Singer,” was inspired by Shelby Lee Adams’ photograph, “Pauline, 2000,” and Dolly Parton’s version of the cautionary ballad, “Silver Dagger.” The poem chronicles the imagined life of a once-successful folk singer who could never break past the good-ole-boy network in commercial country

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Motesbooks releases Motif: Writing by Ear: An Anthology of Writings about Music

cover of Motif: Writing by Ear: An Anthology of Writings About MusicMotesBooks has released the first volume in the Motif series of anthologies, each of which is focused on a particular motif or theme. Edited by Marianne Worthington, communication and journalism professor at University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg, Ky., the first volume is entitled Motif: Writing by Ear. An Anthology of Writings about

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