Moderators
Rhodes College
Charles L. Hughes is a historian based in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of two books, Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South and Why Bushwick Bill Matters, as well as numerous articles. He co-edits (with Jessica Hopper) the American Music Series at...
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Speakers
Critic David Cantwell lives in Kansas City, MO. He sometimes writes about popular culture for The New Yorkerand Rolling Stone Countryand was the 2017 winner of the Chet Flippo Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism. His revised and expanded The Running Kind: Listening to...
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Amanda Marie Martinez is a Doris G. Quinn fellow and a PhD candidate in the history department at UCLA, where she is completing a dissertation on race and the country music industry from the 1970s-1990s. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Popular Music Studies and California...
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Andrea Williams is a Nashville-based journalist writing about culture, music, and sports for a number of top publications, including Vulture/New York Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Times, and many others. Her writing has established her as a leading voice about race and country...
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