sociology
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On stage, four men in blue shirts and blue jeans played a solid 12 song set early Saturday afternoon at LaTaza’s Low Country Broil, a fundraiser for coffee growers in Guatemala. As the morning fog broke into sticky afternoon sunshine, sweat dripped into their eyes as they sang and onto the stage as they moved…
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Taipei, Taiwan; Taizhong, Taiwan; Kaohsiung, Taiwan July 15-23, 2007 This project began as a self-arranged and self-funded tour for the Pinko Communoids in Taiwan. As a trio of ABDs, we also found ways to integrate this performance tour with meaningful comparative research. Gaining financial and in kind support from our own University, as well as…
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Two-Dimensional Sociology If Comcast was working, which it never is, I would have created this entry on my birthday (09.13.07). I turned 29, which makes me “in my late 20s,” that ambiguous age where you are still young enough to avoid total responsibility and old enough to feel confident, or where you are awaiting some…
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This past summer, I taught a course in the Sociology of Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). In this class we discussed issues of urban space, development and consumption from the perspective of cultural sociology. After reading Richard Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class and Sharon Zukin’s chapter on North Adams in the Cultures of…
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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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The paper I’m going to present at the ASAs next week started from a small seed – whenever I would interview local musicians in Charlottesville they would always bring up Coran Capshaw, the manager of Dave Matthews and CEO of several music companies. Sometimes their assessments looked at both sides of the coin – Capshaw,…
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This evening I went out to gather still shots and audio of downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, one of the case studies in my dissertation on local music scenes. I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate with two artists in town on documenting the scene through multiple senses: Tom Daly and Wendy Hsu Tonight was a good night…
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