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The country music superstar Toby Keith, who died this month at 62<\/a>, was best known for the songs he released in the wake of 9\/11 \u2014 especially his big, brawny anthems about American power and soldiers.<\/p>\n But while he is most remembered for those tracks, they comprised only a portion of his whole catalog, which also included tenderly lighthearted love songs and numbers about the hollowness of masculinity.<\/p>\n On this week\u2019s Popcast, a conversation about Keith\u2019s various modes, and the ways in which they bolstered each other; how his most successful songs were used as cultural proxies for political arguments; and the ways that patriotism and jingoism have shaped country music over the past two decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Guest:<\/p>\n David Cantwell, longtime country music journalist, co-author of the No Fences Review newsletter and author of \u201cThe Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Connect With Popcast.<\/strong> Become a part of the Popcast community: Join the show\u2019s Facebook group<\/a> and Discord channel<\/a>. We want to hear from you! Tune in, and tell us what you think at popcast@nytimes.com<\/a>. Follow our host, Jon Caramanica, on Twitter: @joncaramanica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n