Hillbilly Sources and Symbols: Country Music, Cultural Brokerage, and was a conference held on 4-5 April 2003 at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The conference, sponsored by the Southern Folklife Collection, the Center for the Study of the American South (CSAS), and Music in Context, was a response to the surge in popularity of traditional music inspired by the film and a celebration of the publication of by Guthrie T. Meade Jr. with Douglas S. Meade and Richard K. Spottswood (Southern Folklife Collection, 2002). O Brother, Where Art Thou? O Brother, Where Art Thou? Country Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Country Music The collection includes promotional materials (poster and program), two articles, and audiocassettes and videocassettes containing recordings of conference events. Among the topics covered at the conference were country, folk, and old-time music and the popular culture of the American South. The articles are by folklorist and labor historian Archie Green (1965) and by Douglas S. Meade. The latter article concerns the life and career of Meade's father, Guthrie T. Meade Jr. (Gus Meade), focusing on his work on the discography that became . Audiovisual materials document historian Benjamin Filene's keynote speech; panel discussions featuring folklorist Alan Jabbour, CSAS senior associate director William R. Ferris, discographer Richard K. Spottswood, and professor of American Studies Robert Cantwell; student presentations; Archie Green's closing remarks; and other activities. Hillbilly Music: Source and Symbol Country Music Sources : A Personal Perspective Country Music Sources
