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Musicology Colloquium Presents: Nadine Hubbs
Presented by Musicology Colloquium Series
date & time
Thu, Apr 3, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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Free, unticketed
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Drawing on fieldwork with borderlands Mexican American country fans, this talk revises
standard stories of country music history and belonging. The fans described country as uniquely
relatable to their lives, feelings, and “Mexican values” (family, faith, hard work). They heard
country music as American, and Mexican; patriotic country songs inspired bicultural pride in
their U.S. and Mexican identities simultaneously. And they drew links between country music’s
Southwestern influences and the Southwest’s Mexican origins. Pointing to these and other
connections, my interlocutors attested not that country music offers belonging, but that it
belongs to Mexican Americans.
Nadine Hubbs
Nadine Hubbs is a musicologist, historian, and theorist of music and society and professor of women’s and gender studies and music at University of Michigan. She has published on topics ranging from Bernstein to queer disco to Taylor Swift; two award-winning books, The Queer Composition of America’s Sound and Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music; and the award-winning edited collection Uncharted Country: New Voices and Perspectives in Country Music Studies. Her public-facing work features in outlets including the New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, BBC, and the Dolly Parton’s America podcast. Hubbs’s current book project is Border Country: Mexico, America, and Country Music.
Nadine Hubbs
Nadine Hubbs is a musicologist, historian, and theorist of music and society and professor of women’s and gender studies and music at University of Michigan. She has published on topics ranging from Bernstein to queer disco to Taylor Swift; two award-winning books, The Queer Composition of America’s Sound and Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music; and the award-winning edited collection Uncharted Country: New Voices and Perspectives in Country Music Studies. Her public-facing work features in outlets including the New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, BBC, and the Dolly Parton’s America podcast. Hubbs’s current book project is Border Country: Mexico, America, and Country Music.