Book
Hubbs, Nadine. Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music. University of California Press, 2014.
Edited collections
Hubbs, Nadine, ed. The Improbable Rise of Country Music Studies, special issue of American Music (forthcoming 2028).
Hubbs, Nadine, and Francesca T. Royster, eds. Uncharted Country: New Voices and Perspectives in Country Music Studies, Journal of Popular Music Studies 32.2 (2020 special issue).
Journal articles
Hubbs, Nadine. “Is Country Music Quintessentially American? American Music 40.4, “Marking Forty Years of American Music” (2022): 505–510.
* “Is Country Music Quintessentially American? Or White?” AMS Musicology Now. December 13, 2022.
* “A Night at Hillbilly’s: Summer 2017.” Oxford American Web Edition. December 1, 2022.
Hubbs, Nadine, and Francesca T. Royster. “Introduction.” “Uncharted Country: New Voices and Perspectives in Country Music Studies,” Nadine Hubbs and Francesca T. Royster, eds. Special issue of Journal of Popular Music Studies 32.2 (2020): 1–10.
Hubbs, Nadine. IASPM-US Keynote: “Country Music in Dangerous Times.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 30.1–2 (2018): 15–26.
Hubbs, Nadine. “‘Jolene,’ Genre, and the Everyday Homoerotics of Country Music: Dolly Parton’s Loving Address of the Other Woman.” Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 19 (2015): 71–76.
Hubbs, Nadine. “Country Music, the Queer, and the Redneck.” In “Colloquy: Music and Sexuality.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 66.3 (2013): 852–56.
Hubbs, Nadine. “‘Redneck Woman’ and the Gendered Poetics of Class Rebellion.” Southern Cultures 17.4: 5th Annual Music Issue (2011): 44–70.
Book chapters and other formats
* “Before the Next Teardrop Falls,” by Freddy Fender. Essay on this track selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, August 2026 (forthcoming).
* “Country-Loving Mexican Americans: Dual Patriotism and Inevitable Fandom among Mexican American Country Music Lovers.” In Paula J. Bishop and Jada E. Watson, eds., Whose Country Music? Genre, Identity and Belonging in Twenty-First Century Country Music, 210–25. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
“Coat of Many Colors,” by Dolly Parton. Essay on this track selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, August 2022.
“Vaquero World: Queer Mexicanidad, Trans Performance, and the Undoing of Nation.” In Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell, ed., Decentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization, 75–96. Lexington Books, 2020.
Hubbs, Nadine. “‘Them’s My Kind of People’: Cross-Marginal Solidarity in Country Music of the Long Seventies.” In Mark A. Jackson, ed., The Honky Tonk on the Left: Progressive Thought in Country Music. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018, 170–89.
Selected public scholarship, scholarly and media coverage
* 12/31/25. Los Angeles Times, “Prominent Latinos We Lost in 2025” (Nadine Hubbs interviewed and quoted).
* 7/24/24. Pollstar, “Border Blasters” (Nadine Hubbs interviewed and quoted).
* 5/27/24. New York Times, “Carin León Is Bringing Música Mexicana and Country Ever Closer” (Nadine Hubbs interviewed and quoted).
6/7/22. LSA Magazine, “Not Her First Rodeo,” feature profile article on Nadine Hubbs’s work and career, by Susan Hutton.
12/31/21. The Economist: Checks and Balance Podcast, “Three Chords and the Truth: How Can Country Music Help Decipher America’s Culture Wars?” (interview with Nadine Hubbs).
12/10/21. Country Soul SongBook Summit, “How Does Country Music Use Nostalgia to Keep White Supremacy in Place?” Video Panel organized and moderated by Karen Pittelman.
12/3/2021. Country Soul SongBook Summit, “Essential Reading,” video panelist discussing my books, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music and (in progress) Country Mexicans, organized and moderated by Jewly Hight.
10/15/21. The 19th News, “Country Music Has a Gender Issue. Kacey Musgraves Is the Latest Woman to Be Shut Out” (includes Nadine Hubbs interview quotes), by Jennifer Gerson.
7/16/21. The Daily Yonder, “Q&A: For Country Music Scholar Nadine Hubbs, It All Started with a Jukebox in a Small-Town Bar,” by Olivia Weeks.
4/29/21. Country Queer, “Taking ‘Jolene’ All the Way; Nadine Hubbs Imagines a Queer Ending to the Iconic Dolly Song,” by Dale Henry Geist.
1/20/21. Holler, “Clearing Space for Sober Stories in Country Music” (includes Nadine Hubbs interview quotes), by Amanda Wicks.
* 10/16/20. Al Día (Dallas), “Rodeo queer: Cowboys que cabalgan hacia a la diversidad” (queer rodeo piece quoting Nadine Hubbs), by Beatriz García.
10/14/20. Country Queer, “Rethinking Race and Gender in Country: Four Essential Books” (omnibus review including Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music), by Joshua Friedberg.
8/9/20. Music Journalism Insider, Nadine Hubbs and Francesca T. Royster Interview (discussing new co-edited issue, Uncharted Country: New Voices and Perspectives in Country Music Studies, special issue of Journal of Popular Music Studies 32.2 [2020]).
7/18/20. Deutschlandfunk (Radio): Corso – Kunst & Pop, “Ein Genre progressiver al sein Ruf – Queerness im Country” (A Genre More Progressive than Its Reputation: Queerness in Country), by Lars Hendrik Beger, based on interview with Nadine Hubbs.
6/11/20. BBC Culture, “The Story of Queer Country Music—and Its Message of Hope,” by Addison Nugent, drawing on interview with Nadine Hubbs.
6/11/20. NPR Music, “Not-So-Lone Rangers: Out in the Country All Year Long,” by Jewly Hight, drawing on book, article, and roundtable contributions by Nadine Hubbs (NPR Editor’s Pick).
1/28/20. Je ne Sais Pop (Spain), “Hit de Ayer: ‘Jolene’ de Dolly Parton, un himno tanto para la América tradicional como para la comunidad LGTBI+” (Golden Oldie: “Jolene” by Dolly Parton, an Anthem for Traditional America and the LGBTQ+ Community Alike), Jaime Cristóbal.
11/19/19. Dolly Parton’s America podcast, Episode 6, “The Only One for Me, Jolene” (Nadine Hubbs featured interviewee), by Shima Oliaee (producer) and Jad Abumrad (host).
9/14/19. Deseret News, “Ken Burns’ Remarkable View of America Now Looks at the ‘Hillbilly Humanism’ of Country Music,” by Court Mann, drawing on Nadine Hubbs, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, and interview with author.
6/26/19. Frieze: International Magazine of Arts and Culture 204 (UK), “Opinion: The Poor-Shaming Vision of Pride in Taylor Swift’s ‘You Need to Calm Down.’”
3/27/19. Imagine Otherwise Podcast (episode 85), “Nadine Hubbs on Listening Queerly,” by Ideas on Fire (22 min.), with links and transcript.
2/27/19. Associated Press, “Jimmie Allen is a Reflection of a New Country Music World,” by Kristin M. Hall, drawing on interview with Nadine Hubbs.
* 1/3/19. The Nation, “Country Music Is Also Mexican Music,” by Ludwig Hurtado, drawing on interview with Nadine Hubbs and on Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music.
7/26/18. WNPR: The Colin McEnroe Show, “‘Everything but Country’: The Politics of a Polarizing Genre,” interview segment with Nadine Hubbs (0:00–29:00).
6/23/18. Document Journal (Spring/Summer 2018), “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? The Gay Rodeo Inherits the American West,” by Mark Smith, drawing on interview with Nadine Hubbs, 178–99.
3/9/18. On the Media (WNYC & NPR), “Class Politics, Country Music and Hillbilly Humanism,” Bob Garfield interview with Nadine Hubbs. 13 min. (rebroadcast of 10/6/17 segment).
10/10/17. PopMatters, “Ten Conversation-Shifting Contemporary Books about Popular Music,” by Joshua Friedman (includes Nadine Hubbs, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music).
10/6/17. On the Media (WNYC & NPR), “Class Politics, Country Music and Hillbilly Humanism,” Bob Garfield interview with Nadine Hubbs. 13 min.
5/22/17. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 23.3. “Can a Queer Love a Redneck?” Review of Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, by Jae Basilière, 434–36.
3/2/17. Buzzfeed, “Nashville’s Last Taboo? Country Music Stars Are Tiptoeing around Trump,” by Reggie Ugwu, drawing on interview with Nadine Hubbs.
2/15/17. Billboard, “Country Music, Politics and the Lingering Fear of ‘Getting Dixie Chicked,’” by Elias Leight, drawing on interview with Nadine Hubbs.
2/13/17. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 14.1, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music by Nadine Hubbs (review), by Anne Balay, 116–18.
11/1/16. Against the Grain (KPFA Radio Berkeley & Pacifica Radio), “Queers and Rednecks,” Sasha Lilley interview with Nadine Hubbs.
8/1/16. Old Mole Variety Hour (KBOO Radio Portland), “Politics and Country Music,” Bill Resnick interview with Nadine Hubbs.
4/13/16. Billboard, “Billy Ray Cyrus and More Country Artists Condemn Anti-LGBT Laws, but Labels Stay Silent,” by Kristin M. Hall, drawing on interview with Nadine Hubbs.
7/29/15. Agricultural History 89.3, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music by Nadine Hubbs (Review), by John Hayes, 473–74.
6/26/15. Slate, “The Problem with ‘Country for People Who Don’t Like Country,’” by Carl Wilson, drawing on arguments, sources, and conclusion from N. Hubbs, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music.
5/14/15. University of California Press blog, “Rednecks, Queers, and Indiana,” guest post by Nadine Hubbs.
5/11/15. IASPM-US Interview Series, “Nadine Hubbs, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music,” with Diane Pecknold.
5/6/15. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 71.4, Review of Hubbs, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, by Benita Wolters-Fredlund, pp. 728–31.
11/30/14. Herald Scotland, “Books of the Year 2014”: cites Hubbs, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music.
11/5/14. New Books in Popular Culture author interview, by Kreg Abshire with N. Hubbs, Rednecks, Queers, and Popular Music (podcast).
10/28/14. Wondering Sound, “Angaleena Presley and Nadine Hubbs’s Case against Country-Music Classism,” by Jewly Hight. Interview with country-Americana artist Presley and Nadine Hubbs about country music and the American working class, drawing on Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music.
10/15/14. Popular Music and Society 38.2 (UK), Review of Hubbs, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, by Ian Peddie, pp. 261–73.
9/24/14. Times Literary Supplement (London), Review of Hubbs, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, by Brian Morton, p. 27.
7/10/13. Salon, “A Gay Country Music Star Plays It (Relatively) Safe,” by Daniel D’Addario. Article about YouTube country music sensation Steve Grand, drawing on interview with Nadine Hubbs.
9/5/10. New York Times Sunday Book Review, “The End of Tenure?” by Christopher Shea, cites Nadine Hubbs’s University of Michigan course Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music.
