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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Bill C. Malone Collection #20315, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from the Folklore Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in March 2000 (Acc. 98601), from Henry Armijo in April 2000 (Acc. 98602), and Tes Thraves in May 2000 (Acc. 98637).

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• Armijo, Henry.
• Bluegrass music.
• Blues (Music).
• Country music--History and criticism.
• Country music.
• Country musicians.
• Dickens, Hazel.
• Gospel music.
• Henry, Murphy.
• Hinojosa, Tish.
• Hispanic Americans--Music.
• Jones, Carol Elizabeth, 1960-
• Malone, Bill C.
• Popular music--History and criticism.
• Rockabilly music.
• Smith, Betty N.
• Tower, Wells.
• Whisnant, David E., 1938-
• Women country musicians.
• Women musicians.

Bill C. Malone received his Ph.D. in 1965 at the University of Texas. Professor emeritus of history at Tulane University, Malone is known for his cultural and historical studies of country music. He has hosted a weekly radio show, "Back to the Country," on WORT-FM (89.9) in Madison, Wisc. His books include Country Music, U.S.A.; Stars of Country Music (co-edited with Judith McCulloh); Southern Music/American Music; and Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music. During the spring semester of 2000, he served as the first Lehman Brady Chair Professor, an endowed position shared between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.

The collection includes audiotapes of interviews with historian of country music Bill C. Malone conducted by David Whisnant, Henry Armijo, and Wells Tower in 2000; a videotape of "Take This Job and Shove It: Country Music and Work," a public singing lecture given by Malone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on 29 March 2000 (text copy included); and audiotapes of lectures from Malone's course on "Women and the Making of Southern Folk and Country Music" (syllabus included), which he taught at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University in spring 2000. Guest performers/lecturers in the course included Betty Smith, Hazel Dickens, Murphy Henry, Tish Hinojosa, and Carol Elizabeth Jones. Topics included Hillbilly Women and Blues Women: 1920-1933; The Women of Protest: Aunt Molly Jackson and her Sisters; Women in Country Music: 1933-1945; Women and the Folk Revival; Women in Country Music: 1945-1963; Rockabilly Women and Janis Joplin; Bluegrass Women; Gospel and Blues Women; The Women of Top 40 Country Music; and Tejano Women.