photo by Shane Lin
About
I am an assistant professor at Mississippi State University. My first book project, “Cold War Country: Music Row, the Pentagon, and the Sound of American Patriotism,” traces the economic and symbolic connections between popular music and the U.S. military during the Cold War. This project places particular focus on the country music industry’s role in military recruitment since World War II to show how the relationship between genre and militarism helped create the sonic and political color lines of the late twentieth century. My work has received funding from several institutions, including the Rose Library at Emory University, the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill, Virginia Humanities, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, and the American Council of Learned Societies.