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Reminder – #SSSI Annual Meeting in Montreal (August 9th to 13th)
Dear SSSI Colleagues: If you have not yet had a chance to look at the preliminary program for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, I encourage you to do so. You can see … Continue reading
Exploring the Meaning(s) of Record Store Day
Right now, I’m sitting on my porch sipping a cup of coffee and listening to the latest release from Brandy Clark – Live from Los Angeles. I’m especially happy to be doing this because this record is one of the 8 … Continue reading
Soundtracking Existence
After dreaming of doing so for most of my life, two weeks ago I released my first novel – Cigarettes & Wine, for purchasing information please visit http://a.co/5bsI4v2. The novel is a sociological narrative built on over two decades of … Continue reading
Teaching Sociology with Music…Some Examples
A few months back, I spoke on a conference panel about using music in the classroom. Both before and after that talk, I chatted with a handful of people interested in examples I used in classes to cover various concepts. … Continue reading
CfP SSSI Annual Meetings 2017
The Call for Papers for the 2017 SSSI Annual meetings has just been published on our website. For the call, please go here: https://sites.google.com/site/sssinteraction/home/conferences-events/sssi-annual-Conference/sssi2017-cfp
The best albums of 2016 in my opinion
With the new year approaching, I look forward to many new posts concerning the intersection of music and society on this blog. At the same time, I wanted to close out the year by simply doing what almost every other … Continue reading
Event Specific Playlists
In recent weeks, I have enjoyed a series of posts people have made in various corner of the internet sharing playlists they have created for processing the results of the recent U.S. Presidential election. Roaming around online, I have seen … Continue reading
