Faculty Profiles

Mellard, J. D. (2023, April). Last Gangster in Austin by Jesse Sublett. Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Austin, Texas: Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Mellard, J. D. (2023, April 25). Willie Nelson at 90: Country Music’s Elder Statesmen Still on the Road Again.

Mellard, J. D. (n.d.). Hope and Hard Truth: A Life in Texas Politics by Mary Beth Rogers. New Mexico Historical Review. Albuquerque, New Mexico: New Mexico Historical Review.

Mellard, J. D. (2022, January). Crossing Borders: My Journey in Music by Max Baca and Craig Harris. Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Austin, Texas: Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Mellard, J. D. (2021). “Roots of the Ballad Tree: The Kerrville Folk Festival in Historical Context.” In It Can Be This Way Always: Documenting the Kerrville Folk Festival. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.

Mellard, J. D. (2021, November). Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America by Ronald Cohen. The History Teacher. The History Teacher.

Mellard, J. D. (2020). P. T. Barnum Meets Robert Smithson, Or, When Claes Oldenburg Speaks with Mark Twain’s Accent. In Daddy’Os Book of Big Ass Art. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press.

Mellard, J. D. (2020, October). Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics. Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Austin, Texas: Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Mellard, J. D. (2019, February). The Dukes of Duval County: The Parr Family and Texas Politics. Journal of Southern History. Journal of Southern History.

Mellard, J. D. (2018, December 12). “Country Rock: McGuinn and Hillman Celebrate Sweetheart,” pp. 16–17.

Mellard, J. (2017). “These Are My People”: The Politics of Country Music. In T. Stimeling (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Country Music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Mellard, J. D. (2017). “1973 Redux: Revisiting Michael Novak and Agnes Moreland Jackson on White Ethnicity and National Belonging.” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 100(3), 222–233.

Mellard, J. D. (2017, August). Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired Stagolee, John Henry, and Other Traditional American Folk Songs. History: Reviews of New Books. History: Reviews of New Books.

Mellard, J. D. (2016, December). A Gathering of Promises: The Battle for Texas’s Psychedelic Music, from the 13th Floor Elevators to the Black Angels and Beyond. Southwestern American Literature. San Marcos, Texas: Southwestern American Literature.

Mellard, J. (2016). “Gettin Tough”: Steve Earle’s America. In C. Hillis & C. Clifford (Eds.), Pickers and Poets: The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas. College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press.

Mellard, J. D. (2015, April). The Flatlanders: Now It’s Now Again. Texas Books in Review. San Marcos, Texas: Texas Books in Review.

Mellard, J. D. (2014). Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African American Song Tradition. Sound Historian. Sound Historian.

Mellard, J. D. (2014, November). Sweet Dreams: The World of Patsy Cline. The Journal of Southern History. The Journal of Southern History.

Mellard, J. D. (2013). Progressive Country:  How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture. University of Texas Press.

Mellard, J. D. (2013). The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. Oxford University Press.

Mellard, J. D. (2013, February). Crowe on the Banjo:  The Music Life of J. D. Crowe. The Journal of Southern History. The Journal of Southern History.

Mellard, J. D. (2010). Home with the Armadillo:  Public Memory and Performance in the 1970s Austin Music Scene,. The Journal of Texas Music History.

Mellard, J. D. (2010, November). The Dallas Myth by Harvey Graff. Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas. Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas.

Mellard, J. D. (2010, April). The Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition (Vol. 37).

Mellard, J. D. (2010). American West:  La Rivista Italiana di Western Lifestyle out of Turin,.

Mellard, J. D. (2009). Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars:  Issues, Voices, and Viewpoints.

Mellard, J. D. (2008, October). No Depression:  Surveying the Past, Present, and Future of American Music. Southwest Journal of Cultures. Southwest Journal of Cultures.

Mellard, J. D. (2003). Regional Hybridity in Texas Music:  The Case of the Texas Tornados, 107–132.