publications
Book Chapters
“Country Music, the Blues, and Agricultural History” in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to American Agricultural History, ed. R. Douglas Hurt (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2022).
“Planes, Pencils, and Politics: How Race and Labor Practices Shaped Postwar Atlanta,” in Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power, eds. Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2018).
“‘Home Is Where the Hatred Is’: Gil Scott-Heron’s Toxic Domestic Spaces and the Rhizomatic South” in Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies, ed. Zackary Vernon (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019).
Journal Articles
“Five Strings for Freedom: The Banjo in Cold War America,” Modern American History 7, no. 2 (July 2024).
“The ‘Good Old Rebel’ at the Heart of the Radical Right,” Southern Cultures 27, no. 4 (Winter 2020): 124-139. Ranked number 4 in the journal’s “Top Ten of 2021.”
”“Nostalgic for Utopia: Anne Romaine’s Folk Music Protest in the New Left South,” Southern Cultures 24, no. 3 (Fall 2018): 45-61.
“DASH-Amerikan: Keeping Up with the Social Media Ecologies of the Kardashians,” co-authored with the Praxis Digital Humanities cohort, American Quarterly 70, no. 3 (September 2018) 609-611.
Book Reviews
Review of The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960-1980, by Zachary J. Lechner. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (forthcoming).
Review of I’d Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music, by Peter La Chapelle. The Journal of Popular Music Studies 32, no. 1 (March 2020): 137-139.
Review of Blackface Nation: Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925, by Brian Roberts. The Journal of African American History 104, no. 3 (Summer 2019): 485-488..
“A Polyphonic South: Tyina L. Steptoe on Houston’s Racial and Sonic Fluidity,” South: A Scholarly Journal 49, no. 2 (Spring 2017/2018): 200-202.
Review of Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity, by Tsitsi Ella Jaji. The Journal of African American History 101, No. 3 (Summer 2016): 380-382.
Review of Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War, by Christian McWhirter. The Southern Register (Summer 2012): 24-25.