I am a musicologist, gender-sexuality and class theorist, and cultural historian. My work has focused on American and British popular and classical music of the twentieth century to the present, including Bernstein and the Copland-Thomson circle, 1970s disco, Morrissey, Radiohead, Springsteen, and postwar country including Dolly Parton, Gretchen Wilson, and David Allan Coe. My writings examine how musical sounds and practices shape and are shaped by shifting practices of gender and sexuality, class, and race. I have written two books—The Queer Composition of America’s Sound (2004) and Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music (2014)—and many essays and articles. My work and public scholarship have been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Salon, Slate, VICE, Christian Science Monitor, Times Literary Supplement, NPR, Pacifica Radio, BBC, WNYC, Swedish Radio, and other media outlets. While on leave in 2018–19, I am co-editing with Francesca Royster a Journal of Popular Music Studies special issue called Uncharted Country: New Voices and Perspectives in Country Music Studies, and researching and writing a new book, Country Mexicans: Sounding Mexican American Life, Love, and Belonging in Country Music.
photo: Phoebe Gloeckner
Professor of Women’s Studies and Music
Faculty Associate of the Department of American Culture
Director of the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI) in Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)
Now writing Country Mexicans: Sounding Mexican American Life, Love, and Belonging in Country Music
Author, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music and The Queer Composition of America’s Sound
Nadine Hubbs on Academia.edu
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Audio: Cajun songs performed by Nadine Hubbs with The Pittsfield Ramblers
“La Valse de 99 ans”
“Allons danser”
