Dolly Parton’s hit song Jolene (from her 1973 album sharing the same name) sounds unexpectedly good when slowed down to 33 RPM. When they tell you that you want too much, say “I was born for this. Dolly Parton’s Jolene played at 33 RPM has an unexpected sound. The dream of Frantz Fanon was not the replacement of one unjust power with another unjust power it was a revolutionary humanism, neither assimilationist nor supremacist, in which the Manichaean logic of dominant/submissive as it applies to people is finally and completely dismantled, and the right of every being to its dignity is recognized. IN 1973, Dolly Parton released the song Jolene. Akanke is in these images-but so is Aldo. But do we want to be masters-to behave like masters? To expect as they expect? To be as tranquil and entitled as they are? To claim as righteous our decision not to include them in our human considerations? Are we content that all our attacks on them be ad hominem, as they once spoke of us? If our first response to these portraits of black, female masters is some variation on #bowdownbitches or #girlboss, well, no one can deny the profound pleasures of role reversal, of the flipped script, but when we speak thus we must acknowledge that we can make no simultaneous claim to having put down the master’s tools.
We know we don’t want to be victims of history. Dolly states that Jolene has been covered by other artists more than any of the songs she has ever written.
How can such systems be dismantled? Surely, as Audre Lorde knew, it is not by using the master’s tools. Jolene became Dolly’s second solo 1 single on the country charts. In “A Countervailing Theory,” the habit of thought that recognizes some beings and ignores others is presented to us as an element of a physical landscape, the better to emphasize its all-encompassing nature….the system is ever present and felt, but not explicitly stated. Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ Slowed To 33 RPM By Tiffany Smithson Aaron on OctoAdvertisement Dolly Parton Advertisement Long before cassette tapes and compact disks there were vinyl records.
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