{"id":819141,"date":"2019-09-22T08:11:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T13:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=819141"},"modified":"2019-09-23T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T15:49:32","slug":"book-by-tjc-alumnus-serves-as-guide-for-country-music-documentary-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=819141","title":{"rendered":"Book by TJC Alumnus Serves as Guide for &#8220;Country Music&#8221; Documentary Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/09\/bill-malone-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-819142\" \/>TYLER &#8212; East Texas native and Tyler Junior College alumnus Bill C. Malone was a key component in creating Ken Burns\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 eight-part documentary, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Country Music,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d airing this month on PBS. That&#8217;s according to a news release from the college. Widely recognized as country music\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s senior authority, Malone is an author, musician and noted historian of traditional American musical forms, according to the release. College officials say his groundbreaking 1968 work, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Country Music U.S.A.,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was the first definitive and still stands as the most authoritative academic history on the subject. Burns and his associates credit Malone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book as their roadmap for crafting the series.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Malone, who was born in Tyler and grew up in Lindale, graduated from TJC in 1954. According to The Apache yearbook from that year, he served as president of TJC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Alpha Omicron Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa and was a member of the Student Forum and Future Teachers. Malone, a Professor Emeritus of history from Tulane University, and his wife, Bobbie, live in Madison, Wisconsin. He hosts a weekly radio show, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Back to the Country,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on WORT-FM community radio in Madison and performs with Bobbie on mandolin and guitar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; East Texas native and Tyler Junior College alumnus Bill C. Malone was a key component in creating Ken Burns\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 eight-part documentary, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Country Music,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d airing this month on PBS. That&#8217;s according to a news release from the college. Widely recognized as country music\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s senior authority, Malone is an author, musician and noted historian of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=819141\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book by TJC Alumnus Serves as Guide for &#8220;Country Music&#8221; Documentary Series<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":819142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 02:02:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819239,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819141\/revisions\/819239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/819142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}