Participant Info
- First Name
- Kristine
- Last Name
- McCusker
- Country
- United States
- State
- TN Tennessee
- mccusker@mtsu.edu
- Affiliation
- Middle Tennessee State University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- South, ethnomusicology, death studies, pop music studies, women, gender, oral history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- Oral History Association/Co-Director PO Box 193/MTSU/Murfreesboro, TN. 37132
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a popular music studies scholar who has written/co-edited three books on gender and country music. My most recent work is on Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe.”
I also write about death rituals and the South in the 20th century.
- Recent Publications
with Diane Pecknold, co-editor, Country Boys and Redneck Women (honorable mention – best book of the year by No Depression)
+two others
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- twitter.com/drkrisrocks
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Women, World War I, World War II
