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Amanda Marie Martinez

@amamartinez.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of American Studies at UNC. UCLA PhD. Views my own. www.amandamariemartinez.com

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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Had a great launch for the @scquarterly.bsky.social country music issue with Rissi Palmer and Frankie Staton. Good reminder that not all in the world is terrible.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026
This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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UT to consolidate gender and ethnic studies programs into one new department
Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and American Studies.
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
My country music issue of @scquarterly.bsky.social is out! I'm proud of how it's come together. Thank you to the wide range of contributors, including musicians and scholars and artists, and of course the dream team editorial crew at SC who make creative freedom a reality.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/07/2025
UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.
List of programs for elimination from the Indiana state legislature
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Blown away by Sinners and still processing. This is an excellent movie syllabus but would def add Roediger etc. for the Irish component. www.aaihs.org/the-sinners-...
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The ‘Sinners’ Movie Syllabus - AAIHS
The 'Sinners' Movie Syllabus is a curated educational resource inspired by the 2025 film 'Sinners,' directed by Ryan Coogler. This syllabus delves into the multifaceted historical, cultural, and socia...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"At the same time, his administration has elevated candidates with scant qualifications to positions of power across the federal bureaucracy...That this is all being done in the name of “merit-based opportunity,” as Trump’s executive order put it, is patently absurd." slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Trump’s DEI Crackdown Is a Smokescreen for Something Much More Sinister
It’s an attack on labor. But he can frame it as something else.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
And @amamartinez.bsky.social wraps up the panel with ““My Own Kind of Hat”: Headwear and Country Music’s Evolving Class Politics” #PopCon2025
Amanda Marie Martinez with the opening graphic for her paper.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 28/02/2025
Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism Join us for a timely conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism

Davarian Baldwin
Johanna Fernandez
Sarah Haley
Robin D.G. Kelley
Barbara Ransby
Robyn Spencer-Antoine

Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This fall I’ll begin a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the Dept of American Studies at UNC, where my postdoc’s been since last year. Can’t imagine a better academic home. It’s been a long road of luck, community, & hard work to get here & I couldn’t be more grateful.
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Trump follows a long line of conservatives who’ve co-opted country music, identifying its listeners as his voters. Like most of his predecessors, there’s little evidence he had an organic interest in the music. Many country stars have already been happy to play into his interest, as seen w the inaug
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Next week in Chapel Hill we’ll celebrate the Southern Folklife Collection w exciting events, a couple of which I’ll be a part of. On 2/20, David Garcia & I will be in conversation w Amythyst Kiah On 2/22, Jewly Hight, Jocelyn Neal, & I will have a panel on commercial country music Join us!
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 08/02/2025
Corporate Coup in Global Context Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I went into the Grammys expecting the focus to be on Bey/Tay and was happy to see Bey and Kendrick get their deserved awards. But the night's story was Gen Z. Millennials are official elders now www.npr.org/2025/02/03/n...
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Gen Z conquers the Grammys
Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar won the night's biggest awards, but the real takeaway from the Grammys is that a wave of younger stars has arrived on the pop scene, fully prepared to own the spotlight.
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Quin Evans Segall @quinevanssegall.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Dear National Media, If tariffs don’t end up materializing, please don’t say he struck a deal. He didn’t. He intentionally picked a fight with friends & tanked the stock market so he’d be able to claim he was great. This is classic narcissistic personality BS & the remedy is calling it out.
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Last day to submit. Looking at what we've gotten so far and I'm so stoked. You're not ready for how good this is gonna be!
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Anyway, the Grammys were a brief nice escape from reality.
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Great Cowboy Carter won big & she’s one of few Black artists to win a Country Grammy. But also worth noting every Black artist who’s won is a non-Nashville/non-primarily country artist. We need class analysis in our celebrations; the struggles for emerging Black country artists in Nashville remain
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Thank you!
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
And she did win AOTY. And gave a shoutout to Linda Martell. Support Martell’s granddaughter, Quia Thompson, who’s working on a documentary about her grandmother: www.lindamartell.com/badcaseofthe...
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Bad Case of The Country Blues | Linda Martell
Official trailer for country music pioneer, Linda Martell's, documentary film Bad Case of The Country Blues: The Linda Martell Story.
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Chappell Roan is completely correct! Musicians are workers, and we deserve fair payment & dignity in our workplace. UMAW introduced the Living Wage for Musicians Act with Rep. Rashida Tlaib to build a fairer music industry and increase wages for musicians. We need your help to make it happen!
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Wow!! I was expecting Cowboy Carter to win AOTY but not Best Country Album!
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Planning a game w students where we watch ads & debate over audience interpretations in a sort of Adorno v Stuart Hall (etc) approach. So far I've got the Nic Kidman AMC ad & this Sprite commercial. Any other ideas?? (h/t to @oliviastowell.bsky.social for this idea!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtSi...
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Sprite 'Wanna Sprite' TVC with LeBron James via W+K
YouTube video by CBAustralia
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
There's 2 more weeks to submit something for our Southern Cultures issue on Country Music's Mythology. Tell your friends and please consider contributing: www.southerncultures.org/call-for-pap...
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Call for Papers: Country Music’s Mythology
Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue…
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becca laurie @imbeccable.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
It's terrifying that my past 3 sources of annual funding (MTSU's Diversity Dissertation Completion Fellowship, this, and the Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity--all longstanding fellowships for marginalized candidates) are no longer options. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
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H-Net Job Guide
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
$50 million over 5 years. Thank God, the UNC Board of Governors disbanded the DEI programs so money is available. www.nytimes.com/athletic/598...
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Bill Belichick agrees to deal to become UNC football head coach
Belichick, a six-time Super Bowl winner with the New England Patriots, will return to the sideline in the college ranks.
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
One strategy to address all of the anger and scorn stirred up by the assassination of the health insurance CEO would be to push for Medicare for All and/or eliminate private health insurance.
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Should be illegal for cashiers to ask you (and be incentivized to push) if you want to sign up for a credit card when you check out. Evil stuff.
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Dobie Gray is severely under appreciated. A stellar vocalist, beloved/respected by all he knew. Committed to social justice. He struggled for decades to make it in country but found "they didn’t know where to place a black guy in country music (except) Charley Pride.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuxe...
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Dobie Gray - There's A Honky Tonk Angel
YouTube video by dhornjr1
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Idk how I’m getting such random followers. Full disclosure I really only post about country music so this is your warning to unfollow now 🤠
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Pierre Hellqvist @sonicpierre.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Of course, the alliance between country and pop didn’t begin with Beyoncé or Post Malone. In fact, it’s been there all the time. Well worth a read. www.southerncultures.org/article/pop-... @scquarterly.bsky.social @amamartinez.bsky.social
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“Pop Stars Don’t Die, They Move to Nashville to Record”
In 1986, singer Dobie Gray released From Where I Stand, an album identified as “country soul.” Because Gray, a Black man, had principally been marketed in pop and R&B, reviewers felt the need to…
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Me & the good folks at Southern Cultures have been working hard on a country music studies reader in anticipation of the special issue I’m guest editing. Proud of how it’s come together! It includes 12 essays from the archive & 3 new ones. Check it out: www.southerncultures.org/reader/count...
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“Country’s Cool Again”
Featuring twelve classic hits from the archive and three new essays, this collection brings country music’s past and present together to consider why country’s cool again (and again).
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Popular Music Studies crew, please comment below so I can add you to the list. go.bsky.app/A71i3tw
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
I'm excited to serve as guest editor for an issue of Southern Cultures on Country Music's Mythology. Check out the CFP and please spread the word and/or consider contributing. Submissions are due Feb. 3 www.southerncultures.org/call-for-pap...
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Call for Papers: Country Music’s Mythology
Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue…
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
My essay, on the history behind how the country music genre is not the same as the format of country radio. And the long legacy of Black country music.
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 22/07/2023
My piece for NPR on where “Try That in a Small Town” sits in country music’s history. Jason Aldean's 'Small Town' is part of a long legacy with a very dark side - www.npr.org/2023/07/22/1188908968/j…
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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 10/07/2023
We gotta make Bluesky work, everybody. I don’t wanna have to add all my family and friends on Threads since it’s through IG. I need my privacy!
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Karen Tongson @inlandemperor.bsky.social · 05/07/2023
I LOVED this episode of Into It w/ @annkpowers.bsky.social So many choice points (TS as Dylan, conscious of her own historicity; TS as a contemporary Carole King). Thanks for sharing, @amamartinez.bsky.social ://open.spotify.com/episode/2fnxcpWlHagsj9F5FdZUTi?si=OqJD5rnlRp-boYnBy9cD2A
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A Portrait of Taylor Swift, Miss Americana
Listen to this episode from Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders on Spotify. What better way to celebrate our nation's independence than with an episode about Miss Americana herself? We revisit...
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