I’m a musicologist and cultural historian whose work recasts social perspectives of people marked by sexuality and gender, class, race, and migration. My focus is on 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. I have written two award-winning books—The Queer Composition of America’s Sound (2004) and Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music (2014)—and many essays and articles. I co-edited (with Francesca T. Royster) the award-winning Journal of Popular Music Studies special issue Uncharted Country: New Voices and Perspectives in Country Music Studies (2020), and I’m writing a new book, Music, Borders, and Belonging. I serve on editorial and advisory boards including those of the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and Pop Conference, and my work has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian,The Nation, Salon, Times Literary Supplement, NPR, Pacifica Radio, BBC, WNYC, Swedish Radio, and other media outlets.
photo: Phoebe Gloeckner
Professor of Women’s and Gender 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
Writing Music, Borders, and Belonging
Author, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music and The Queer Composition of America’s Sound
Nadine Hubbs on Academia.edu
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Audio: “Queer Jolene” + Cajun songs performed by Nadine Hubbs with The Pittsfield Ramblers
“La Valse de 99 ans”
“Allons danser”
