here’s the link to the (for now) open-access special issue: https://online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/32/2 

Uncharted Country: New Voices and Perspectives in Country Music Studies (TOC below)

VOLUME 32 NUMBER 2 JUNE 2020 SPECIAL ISSUE: UNCHARTED COUNTRY

EDITORS’ NOTE Uncharted Country: New Voices and Perspectives in Country Music Studies 1 NADINE HUBBS AND FRANCESCA T. ROYSTER

AMPLIFIER You’re My Country Music 11 KAREN PITTELMAN

Valerie June, Ghost Catcher 18 FRANCESCA T. ROYSTER

Thunder in the Heart: Following the Ache of Americana and Decoding the Queer Paul Clayton 28 CLAY KERRIGAN

Me, Hank Williams, and My Dad 42 JOE KADI

ARTICLES

Ragtime Country: Rhythmically Recovering Country’s Black Heritage 50 WAYNE MARSHALL

“Penned Against the Wall”: Migration Narratives, Cultural Resonances, and Latinx Experiences in Appalachian Music 63 SOPHIA M. ENRIQUEZ

Freddy Fender’s Blackbrown Country Ecologies 77 DEBORAH R. VARGAS

Sing Me Back Home: Country Music and Radical Community Organizing in Uptown Chicago 95 JESSE MONTGOMERY

The Racial Limitations of Country-Soul Crossover in Bobby Womack’s BW Goes C&W, 1976 112 CHELSEA BURNS

Redneck Chic: Race and the Country Music Industry in the 1970s 128 AMANDA MARIE MARTINEZ

She’s A Country Girl All Right: Rhiannon Giddens’s Powerful Reclamation of Country Culture 144 KIMBERLY MACK

Remapping Country Music in the Pacific: Country Music and Masculinities in Post-War Japan, 1945–56 162 MARI NAGATOMI

“New Life” into Old Sounds: Listening to Simone Schmidt’s Audible Songs from Rockwood 178 RYAN SHUVERA

The Valley of the Dry Bones: The Presence and Perseverance of Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness in Country Music and Bluegrass 191 SHIRLI BRAUTBAR, PETER LA CHAPELLE AND JESSICA HUTCHINGS

“Tennessee Whiskey” and the Politics of Harmony 214 JOCELYN R. NEAL