Podcast appearances and mentions of Bill C Malone

Send us a textMiddlemen are not parasites but essential "engineers of exchange" who create value by connecting buyers and sellers who might never find each other otherwise.• The word "monger" (and Munger) comes from a Saxon root--Mancgere-- meaning trader or merchant• Middlemen historically seen as parasites for buying cheap and selling dear without improving products• 11th-century "mancgere" traders defended their value despite not changing the goods they sold• RA Radford's 1945 POW camp study shows how middlemen increase beneficial exchanges• The prison camp padre who traded his way to wealth, while making everyone else better off!!• Arbitrage improves market efficiency by exploiting price differences, and reducing differences in price so that people can rely on the price they are offered rather than having to bargain or comparison shop. • Middlemen only become problematic when they control exclusive information or "rents"The first "middleman" episode of TAITC:  May 2023....R.A. Radford, "The Economics of a POW Camp." M.C. Munger, "Market Makers or Parasites."Book'o'da'week: Country Music USA by Bill C. Malone, published by University of Texas Press.Bonus: a great example of a middleman, from a listener in Oz!If you have questions or comments, or want to suggest a future topic, email the show at taitc.email@gmail.com ! You can follow Mike Munger on Twitter at @mungowitz

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.Music Un geant dans la mer and Triste soiree III from the score to Marie et les naufrages by the genius, Sebastian Tellier.  Love is Blue by Jackie Mittoo and the Soul Vendors. Rocky Passage by Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer Morris Visits Dr. Pratt from John Barry's score to The Wrong Box Adios Muchachos from Andre Popp Moonlight in Vermont from the great Dorothy Ashby.  Midnight Moon by The Portland Cello Project Dance PM by Hiroshi Yoshimura And we hear Blind Andy Jenkins' "Floyd Collins in Sand Cave" followed by Vernon Dalhart doing the same song under the name, "The Death of Floyd Collins." We also hear Jimmy Osbourne do Andy's, "The Death of Little Kathy Fiscus." Notes I have a note in my years-long running list of possible story ideas that says, "event songs," but I could never remember why. Then I was reading Charles Hirschberg and Mark Zwonitzer's, Will You Miss me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Music and was reminded of Andy's story (that book is great). I also recommend the always-useful, Country Music USA, by Bill C. Malone for more on Andy and his era as well as Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity by Richard A. Peterson. If you want more about poor Floyd Collins, you could turn to Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Bruckner's, Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins.

Bill C. Malone, author of Country Music USA and advisor to Ken Burns' PBS documentary on country music, provides the answer and talks about the appeal of country music, its roots, impact on our culture and more.

Since its first publication in 1968, Bill C. Malone’s Country Music USA has won universal acclaim as the definitive history of American country music. Starting with the music’s folk roots in the rural South, it traces country music from the early days of radio into the twenty-first century. In the 2019, fiftieth-anniversary edition, Malone, the featured historian in Ken Burns’ 2019 documentary on country music, revised every chapter to offer new information and fresh insights. Coauthor Tracey Laird tracks developments in country music in the new millennium, exploring the relationship between the current music scene and the traditions from which it emerged. Dr. Edgar talks with Bill Malone about Country Music’s origins and impact on popular and about his involvement in Ken Burn’s documentary series Country Music , available to PBS Passport subscribers . - Originally broadcast 09/06/99 - News and Music Stations: Fri, Oct 09, 12 pm; Sat, Oct 10, 7 am | News & Talk Stations: Fri, Oct

From the earliest days of recording to today's multimedia superstars, we'll trace the origins and development of what's now known as country music. Bill C. Malone, editor of the landmark study Country Music U.S.A., will share musical examples fom the Skillet Lickers to Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Dolly Parton.