conference
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The annual meeting of sociologists offers both intellectual inspiration and anxiety as both new and established scholars try to connect with others in a sea of over 6,000 colleagues. I felt in the thick of it this year as a presenter, job seeker and attendee. My concerns about the grim job market were calmed by…
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University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK July 13-17, 2009 The meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music in Liverpool was full of excellent papers from scholars around the globe. Sociologists, anthropologists, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, geographers, urbanists, and others presented work on the practice, expressive meanings and significance of popular music in a wide…
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University of North Carolina, Greensboro May 27-30, 2009 At my first conference as a “composer” and performer, rather than a sociologist, my trio the Pinko Communoids was featured on the third evening concert along with Monique Buzzarte and Tomie Hahn & Melaine Klein. Monique’s set offered a moving mix of conch shell, trombone and electronics.…
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This year I presented a paper called “Local Musicians in the Age of Digital Reproduction,” which investigated how local musicians employ social networking technologies and what they think about the significance of these technologies. I was spotted by CITASA who kindly invited me to submit to a special issue of Information Communication and Society. This…
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I hesitated when first asked to teach the workshop on diversity in the classroom. Diversity can often be a code for tokenism, or treated as a resource to be exploited by those in the majority. Aiming to avoid these approaches, I decided to focus on individualized learning, I lead new and seasoned teaching assistants through…
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I had the opportunity to work with colleagues at Virginia Commonwealth University and other area colleges as a member of the local arrangements committee. Lead by Sarah Jane Brubaker and Denise Bissler, we organized all local aspects of the conference, including the venue, accommodations, and literature about amenities, history and culture in the city of…
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Millikin University, Decatur, IL April 2-5, 2009 In April I found myself in the Midwest listening to old time music and learning that the South is overrepresented in American music history and that “Peterson had it wrong” about country music – he couldn’t feel what the music meant to people. As a sociologist from the…
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I had the wonderful opportunity to present with my idols in the field of culture and urbanism at the ASA this year. David Grazian presented work from his forthcoming book On the Make, while Elizabeth Currid detailed the networks of actors who made up the Warhol-era New York Art Scene. Richard Lloyd [Neo-Bohemia: Art in…
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