Michael T. Bertrand

Michael T. Bertrand is a historian of the American South and the modern United States. He currently teaches at Tennessee State University in Nashville. He has taught at the University of Memphis, Middle Tennessee State University, and the University of Mississippi, where he worked in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He co-founded and moderated H-Southern-Music, and also served as music editor for the African American National Biography. He has written for CNN, The Conversation, and Southern Cultures, and has appeared on PBS, Sky Arts, and History Channel documentaries produced by Henry Louis Gates, David Upshal, Bruce Sinofsky, and Michael Rose. The author of RACE, ROCK, AND ELVIS, Bertrand’s forthcoming book, to be published by the University Press of Florida as part of its “Southern Dissent” series, is SOUTHERN HISTORY REMIXED: ON ROCK 'N' ROLL AND THE DILEMMA OF RACE.

In addition to the monographs mentioned above, Bertrand also has contributed the following chapters to the edited books listed in this author page:

*“Old Habits Die Hard: Elvis, or the Burden of a Southern Identity,” in Mark Duffett, ed., _Rethinking Elvis_, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

"To Redeem the Soul of Dixie: On the Second Reconstruction and the New South" (_Interpretations in American History_)

"I Don't Think Hank Done It That Way: Elvis, Country Music, and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity" (_A Boy Named Sue_)

"Race and Rural Identity" (_The Hayloft Gang_)

"'A Tradition-Conscious Cotton City': (East) Tupelo, Mississippi, Birthplace of Elvis Presley" (_Destination Dixie_)

"'Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing': Culture, Epistemology, and the Historicity of Black Music" (_Transformations in Africana Studies_)

"How Much Does It Cost If It's Free: The Selling (Out) of Elvis Presley" (Rock Brands_)

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