Country Music Scholar

Video

Part 2: Malone discusses enrolling at the University of Texas, the Austin folk revival, and his dissertation, Country Music USA

Part 3: Malone discusses variation in country music style, contrasting the honky tonk of the oil boom with older Appalachian music

Part 4: Malone discusses the commercialization of rural southern music first as “hillbilly” and later as “country”

Part 5: Malone discusses relationships between “southern” and “American” music, addressing questions of authenticity and fusion

Part 6: Malone discusses tensions between themes of rambling and rootedness in country music

Part 7: Malone explores how contemporary country music represents the concerns of its largely nine-to-five audience

Part 8: Malone discusses county music as an area of academic inquiry