Bill C. Malone

Bill C. Malone (born August 25, 1934) is an American musician, author and historian specializing in country music and other forms of traditional American music. He is the author of the 1968 book Country Music, U.S.A., the first definitive academic history of country music. The third revised edition appeared in 2010. Malone is Professor Emeritus of History at Tulane University and now resides in San Antonio, TX.

Biography Malone was born on a cotton-growing tenant farm 20 miles west of Tyler, Texas in 1934 and grew up with music as "a constant companion".

Malone hosts a weekly radio show, Back to the Country, on WORT–FM community radio in Madison, Wisconsin, and performs country music with his wife, Bobbie Malone, playing mandolin and guitar.

Honours Malone was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984 to assist his research in U.S. history. In 2008, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music.

Selected publications An early history of Austin, Texas, 1839-1861 (1958) University of Texas, pp. 272, googlebooks Country Music, U.S.A. (1968; revised edition 1984; 2nd revised, annotated edition 2002; 3rd revised, annotated edition 2010 with Jocelyn R. Neal) University of Texas Press, pp. 664, Southern Music/American Music (co-author with David Stricklin) (1979; 2nd, illustrated, revised edition 2003) University Press of Kentucky, pp. 236, Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music (1993) University of Georgia Press, pp. 168,

Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens (co-author with Hazel Dickens) (2008) University of Illinois Press, pp. 102, Music from the True Vine: Mike Seeger's Life and Musical Journey (2011) UNC Press Books, pp. 240,