Education
A Mensan, Stacy Harris' earliest education was in her native Minnesota.
(Kosher Country: Success and Survival on Nashville's Music...)
Kosher Country: Success and Survival on Nashville's Music Row Stacy Harris During the last few years, Nashville's country music industry has been mourning a larger number of its citizens than usual...
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2006
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1993
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Spanning nine years, "You Are So Nashville If . . ". offers a rollicking, sometimes touching, sometimes bizarre look at the people, places, and things that make Nashville what it is. Includes more than 700 entries.
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1998
(This definitive encyclopedia offers 1,534 entries on Tenn...)
This definitive encyclopedia offers 1,534 entries on Tennessee by 514 authors. With thirty-two essays on topics from agriculture to World War II, this major reference work includes maps, photos, extensive cross-referencing, bibliographical information, and a detailed index.
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2002
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A Mensan, Stacy Harris' earliest education was in her native Minnesota.
The publisher/executive editor and media critic of Stacy's Music Row Report, Stacy Harris was recognized by The Nashville Business Journal (in its April 17-21, 1995 edition) for pioneering Music Row coverage on the Internet. Stacy's online career as a country-music columnist began when Stacy wrote an opinion column for Ben Cunningham's nashville.com bulletin board. With the user-friendly expansion of the Internet, Stacy tweaked and retitled her column Stacy On Line and the column became a feature of Music Row-based Nashville Music Connection/Country On Line.
An internationally-known author, influencer, country-music historian, academician, music industry and popular culture analyst, pop culture expert, celebrity journalist, ethnomusicologist, columnist, broadcast journalist, feature writer, media personality, tastemaker, public speaker, pundit, arts critic, technical writer, axiologist, lifestyle and relationship expert, entertainment entrepreneur, community activist, iconoclast and polymath, Stacy Harris has covered the Nashville entertainment scene as a Nashville-based stringer for Newsweek and as a domestic stringer (with Secret Service clearance) for the ABC Radio Network and its affiliates.
Stacy Harris is also listed in the prestigious Internet Movie DataBase. She is among the "Notable People" recognized by the St. Louis Park Historical Society and The World Library Foundation.
A former publicist for several Grand Ole Opry stars, Stacy coordinated tour press for MCA, RCA and Con Brio Records. Mercury Records commissioned her to photograph "publicity shots" of its artists and to write liner notes and she supplied CBS Records with archival audio of interviews with its artists.
Stacy has also written scripts for The Nashville Network (TNN), The NASCAR Country Radio Network, MJI Broadcasting’s nationally-syndicated Country Quiz program, Biff Collie, Gerry House and Nashville International.
She has written for several entertainment trade and special interest publications, including Billboard, Cash Box, Record World, Amusement Business, Performance, CMA Close Up, Satellite Business, Goldmine and Music Row.
A former editor of Country Song Roundup, Country Spirit, Spotlight on Country, Trading Posts, Prairie Country News and the Upper Midwest Country& Western News-Scene magazines, Stacy's writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Business Week, US, Look, McCall's, Entertainment Weekly, New Woman, Music City News, Country Music, Inside Country Music, Country Music People, The Journal of Country Music, Tune-In, Dell Horoscope, Great Nonprofits, Hit Parader, Country News, Overdrive, Country Style, Entertainment Express, Take One, Music Galore, Chicago Country, Country Fever, The Current, That's Country, The Nashville Gazette, TV Guide, The Fan Letter, Country Rhythms, The Nashville Scene, Music City Loafer, Don Fitzpatrick's Shop Talk and in North-Central Connecticut's Journal Inquirer.
She motivated readers as a columnist for the Nashville Banner ("Community Voices") and The Tennessean ("Nashville Eye").
Stacy Harris' published books include Classic Country (2005, hardcover); The Best of Country: The Essential CD Guide (1993, paperback); Comedians of Country Music (1978, hardcover); and The Carter Family (1978, hardcover), while her credits as a contributing author include entries in What Brings You Joy (2014, paperback) The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (1998, hardcover), You Are So Nashville If... (1998, paperback) and chapters in Country Music Stars and the Supernatural (1979, paperback).
Stacy's books, which are available worldwide, are featured in the catalogues and collections of The British Library and The National Library of Australia.
Stacy Harris' contributions have been acknowledged in books written by Alanna Nash, Robert Oermann, Jean Roseman, John S. Dunne, Diane Diekman, Carl Perkins with David McGee, co-authors Lol Henderson and Lee Stacey, Eileen Sisk, Ivan Tribe, Rebecca Condon, Steve Eng, Mary Hurd, Tom C. Armstrong, Lol Henderson, Cliff Linedecker, Barbara Pruett, Stephen Miller, Dave DiMartino, Anne Fletcher, Staff Sgt. Barry (Ballad of the Green Beret) Sadler, Warren B. Causey, Lee Stacey, Marc Leepson, Mary Hance, Rick Marschall, Carol Fradkin, Mark K. Bauman, B. Lee Cooper and Rebecca Condon, Michael Freemark and by Adam Compton in The Texas State Historical Association's The Handbook of Texas Online.
Further, authors Karen Breen and Judith Silverman acknowledged Stacy's children's books in the Index to Collective Biographies for Young Readers (1988) while author Hao Huang cited Stacy Harris' oeuvre in Music in the 20th Century, Volume 2 (1999).
Ryan Carlson Bernard cited Stacy Harris' work in the footnotes to The Rise and Fall of the Hillbilly Music Genre: A History, 1922-1939, a thesis presented to the faculty of East Tennessee State University's Department of Liberal Studies, "in partial fulfillment of the requirements" for obtaining a 2006 Master's Degree in Liberal Studies at ETSU.
Stacy established herself as a production consultant for Nashville's WLAC-TV's Digest '79 and Nashville's WNGE-TV's Brian Christie's Starflash, a local and national news monitor for Broadcast News Clips and as an Insider's Viewpoint guest commentator for the Nashville Network (TNN's Country Notes) and for Nashville's WSM-TV.
Formerly a Grand Marshal for Nashville Gas' Christmas Parade (on December 7, 1980), Stacy Harris hosted Nashville Channel 2's Night Owl Theatre. Her other TV credits include the syndicated Donahue,The Maury Povich Show, Inside Edition (hosted by Bill O'Reilly) and American Journal programs, local Nashville television's Mornings on Five, Noon and Morningwatch, PBS's A Word on Words and A& E's cable television series City Confidential: Murder in Music City. She also contributed to PBS affiliate WNPT-Nashville's production of Memories of Nashville.
Profiled in publications ranging from The Yearbook of Experts, Authorities and Spokespersons (16th Edition) to National Property Law Digests, Stacy has been interviewed by such national and international news organizations as the Associated Press, BBC World Services, BBC 4 Scotland, CBS Radio News, WKRN-TV News (Nashville), WLAC Radio and WTN Radio (Nashville). Locally, she has been interviewed by Jerry Dahmen, for WSM Radio's I Love Life!, Phil Williams and Andy Cordan for WKRN-TV News, LaTonya Turner for WSMV-TV News and Miranda Cohen, Skye Arnold and Liane Jackson for Fox 17 News.
Stacy Harris' movie, TV-movie and stage acting credits include Hank Williams: The Man and His Music, Against the Wall, The Cradle Will Fall, Children of the Winner, Country Gold, The Concrete Cowboys and the annual SPJ Gridiron Show, as well as an unsold pilot, The Hatfields and the McCoys.
She has been featured in national commercials for Old Style Beer and White Rain and in a regional ad for the Southern Olds Family automobile dealerships. She modeled for the Backstage hair salons chain.
A Nashville Banner book reviewer for 22 years, Stacy Harris was the last person to interview Hee Haw/Grand Ole Opry star David "Stringbean* Akeman within hours of Akeman's murder. That now-famous interview became the front-page lead story for the Banner's November 12, 1973 edition (reprised by Francis Xavier "Red" O'Donnell in his Nashville Report column appearing in the November 24, 1973 edition of Record World) and the tape of the historic event- which famed producer/session player Fred Carter, Jr. (a/k/a Deana Carter's father) wanted to buy from Stacy- is available at no charge to researchers at the Country Music Foundation library in Nashville.
A sidekick and permanent guest host for WLAC-Radio's The Bill Karlson Show (later The Bill Karlson Show with Stacy Harris), for two years Stacy assisted Bill in conveying his message of how listeners in 28 states and three countries can Get Top $$ In A Job You Love.
A past-president of the National Entertainment Journalists Association (NEJA), Stacy's other professional memberships include/have included American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT), The Country Music Association (CMA), the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), Mensa, the National Press Club, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, (NATAS) and the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE).
Stacy Harris is a graduate of the University of Maryland and Vanderbilt University, having also taken college prep courses at the College of Emporia (earning college credit while still in high school) and songwriting classes at Middle Tennessee State University. (Songwriting credits include Permanent Record, based on a Newsweek essay, copyright 1996)
A graduate of Nashville's Citizen's Police Academy, Stacy is a member of the academy's alumni association.
On June 17, 1998 Stacy Harris was sworn in as a member of the Davidson County Democratic Executive Committee, representing the voters of Nashville's 25th council district (a position to which she was re-elected).
That same year Stacy moderated Jews in Country Music, a panel discussion featuring performers/songwriters Jen Cohen and Andie Jennings, music video writer/producer/director Steve Goldmann, marketing executive Neal Spielberg, musicians Eric Silver and Jonathan Yudkin and attorney specializing in music business clients Ellen McDonald during the Southern Jewish Historical Society's 23rd Annual Conference (at Nashville's Doubletree Hotel). This honor was followed, in 1999, by the Southern Jewish Historical Society's publishing her scholarly essay, Kosher Country: Success and Survival on Nashville's Music Row, in Volume II of Southern Jewish History, the historical society's prestigious, academic journal. (Stacy's heavily-footnoted article updated and expanded upon Charles Hirshberg's Nashville's Jewish Newcomers Assert Themselves [Softly], published in the July 22, 1994 issue of The Forward.)
Kosher Country... has been recognized by the Stanford Graduate School of Education's prestigious Berman Jewish Policy Archive.
On March 12, 2000 Stacy Harris became a graduate of the International Bluegrass Music Association's inaugural Leadership Bluegrass class. Following graduation, Stacy is a member of IBMA's Leadership Bluegrass Alumni Association, notably serving as a mentor for members of Leadership Bluegrass' classes and as a volunteer for the IBMA's annual World of Bluegrass Convention.
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1978(Country Music Hall of Fame member Bud Wendell)
1999(How to succeed in spite of yourself.)
2009(Interview with Felton Jarvis)
1978(The Best of Country: The Essential Cd Guide (The Essentia...)
1993(This definitive encyclopedia offers 1,534 entries on Tenn...)
2002(Comedians of Country Music [Stacy Harris] on Amazon.com. ...)
1978(Classic Country [With CD] [Stacy Harris] on Amazon.com. *...)
2000(Spanning nine years, "You Are So Nashville If . . ". offe...)
1998(Harris, Stacy)
1978(Popular and peer opinion, chart success, and scores of aw...)
2017(Brenda Mae Tarpley, later known as Brenda Lee, was born i...)
2017(Carl Perkins, the son of Tiptonville sharecroppers, was S...)
2017(Stacy Harris corrects New York Times critic.)
2009(Stacy Harris, Writer: I-40 Paradise. Stacy Harris is know...)
2020(The songwriter formerly known as Dick Feller wrote about ...)
2019(Stacy's Music Row Report is Nashville's only independent ...)
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1979socially liberal, economically conservative
"Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error." - BENJAMIN RUSH
"Celebrity is just just obscurity biding its time!"- CARRIE FISHER
"I don't care if you sleep with elephants as long as you don't cover the circus."- ABE ROSENTHAL
(former New York Times editor on what a journalist's role should be re: the political process).
"News is what somebody somewhere doesn't want you to know. All the rest is advertising."- DAN RATHER
"You would think the people in show business are exciting; that they're fun. They're interesting. They're fascinating.
"Well, by and large, they're not. They're sort of self-involved jerks!"- DAVID LETTERMAN
"I like normalcy and I like genuine exchanges with people "(Fame) enters the room before you do and so any perception has of who you might be, that's who they meet." - RENÉE ZELLWEGER
"The culture of Music Row? Certainly, you must go along to get along. It's a sin to have an opinion. It's a greater sin to express it.
"In reality, we all have opinions, though the rules of Music Row say all strongly-held opinions must mimic those of the listener. There's not a lot of conceding the right to live and let live, let alone the right to agree to disagree.
"I believe in both. The evidence is in my blend of news and commentary, which must be distinguished from blogging. With all due respect to bloggers, many of them neglect to do one or more of the following: Seek and verify facts, update, post corrections, link or cite source material and obtain permission to use copyrighted intellectual property." - STACY HARRIS
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