A specialist in the history of American popular music, Dr. Brian F. Wright joins the Arlington Museum of Art for the next Articulate Art Talk conversation inspired by our current exhibit, Girl in a Country Song: Women of Country Music.
From Patsy Cline to Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton to Reba McEntire, Shania Twain to LeAnn Rimes, Miranda Lambert to Maren Morris, so many of country music’s most successful and iconic artists are women. Their achievements, however, have often come in spite of the country music establishment, which has deliberately limited women’s national exposure and has attempted to control the perspectives that their music is allowed to express. In dialogue with the exhibits “Girl in a Country Song” and “Hometown Harmonies,” this talk celebrates the history of women in country music while also detailing some of the many challenges they have faced from within the country music industry. (photo of Loretta Lynn courtesy of the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum)
Dr. Brian F. Wright is Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of North Texas, where he teaches courses on American popular music. He holds a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from Case Western Reserve University and is a former research assistant for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archive.
His work has appeared in the Journal of the Society for American Music, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and Jazz Perspectives, as well as in Bass Player and Vintage Guitar Magazine. His forthcoming book, The Bastard Instrument: A Cultural History of the Electric Bass, will be published by the University of Michigan Press in Fall 2024.
ARTICULATE, a series of in-person talks by experts, is a collaborative programming series by the Arlington Museum of Art dedicated to nurturing life-long art lovers, building community through conversation, and inspiring the next generation of creatives.
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