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New Book Review: Clayton Childress on Paul Lopes’s “Art Rebels” #sssi #music #art
In symbolic interactionism and our journal there is a long-standing interest in art and music. For example, in 2015 we published Wenchao Lu’s interview with Howard Becker “Sociology and Art” and Lucia Ruggerone’s and Neil Jenkings’s article “Talking About Beauty“, … Continue reading
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CfP Special Issue “Celebrating and Interrogating the Blumerian Legacy” #sssi #sociology #SymbolicInteraction
Special Issue Call For Papers Jacqueline Low and Gary Bowden (Eds.) Celebrating and Interrogating the Blumerian Legacy Deadline to Submit Papers: September 30, 2019 As we mark the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Blumer’s (1969) pivotal work … Continue reading
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SSSI Annual Meetings 2019 – Call for Abstracts and sessions #sssi #sociology
Dear Colleagues and a Friends Abstract submissions for the 2019 SSSI Annual Meetings in New York City are also due on April 1, 2019. https://sites.google.com/site/sssinteraction/home/conferences-events/2019-annual-meetings-of-sssi I have already received some excellent and interesting abstracts and am getting very excited for the … Continue reading
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Between the Sounds
The other day I did something I have done many times, but I thought about it more than I normally have, likely because I write this blog and occasionally do some music-related scholarly work nowadays. This leads me to regularly … Continue reading
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Tagged art, blog, music, sociology
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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
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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 More I Write
“Well if I have one, I’ll have thirteen” is a lyric from a Blake Shelton song called “The More I Drink” from his Pure BS album. Although I do not happen to drink much if at all for the most … Continue reading
“Popular Music and Society”
I am teaching my undergraduate “Popular Music and Society” course online this semester, as usual. I have 90 students enrolled—sold out! Responding to inspiration from Tia Denora and my own work on the value of examining the most mundane uses … Continue reading
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What’s in a genre?
When I was a child, I had a friend who took every opportunity to tell anyone who would listen that Cat Stevens was the greatest country singer of all time. Although I disagreed with this assertion (my vote went to … Continue reading
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Musical Theory
Not so long ago, I was looking for an interesting way to teach sociological theories to students. While I looked over all the ideas, suggestions, and guides I could find, I kept wanting to try something new that I could … Continue reading
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Musical Dramaturgy
A couple of days ago after class, I was sitting in my office talking with a student about potential career opportunities. As we finished our talk, the student looked around the office, and noted, “You must really like music a … Continue reading
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Musical Technologies of Memory
I have an electric guitar in my office. Cherry red and white, it lives on a little stand situated between one of my bookshelves and a file cabinet. Sometimes when I get stuck on a manuscript or course preparation, I … Continue reading
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Thinking about the Meaning of Records
Every year, I celebrate a holiday that is dear to my heart by waking up early in the morning, visiting stores crowded with far more people than I find in these same stores on other days of the year, trading … Continue reading
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Music Book wins Cooley Award 2014 – Rock ‘n Roll Joe Kotarba! #sssi
We congratulate Joe Kotarba for winning the 2014 Charles Horton Cooley Award for Best Book: Baby Boomer Rock ‘n’ Roll Fans. The award is annually presented by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.
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#SSSI Music Blog Needs Help!
If one of your research areas is the sociology of music, please consider becoming a blogger for our SI Music Blog (https://sssimusic.wordpress.com/). We are looking for someone who is willing to post news and announcements, reports of events, book tips … Continue reading
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Book for Review? “Revisiting Symbolic Interaction in Music”
One of the books that I have been sent to review by a publisher is the latest edition of Studies in Symbolic Interaction that has a focus on ‘Music’. If you are interested in reviewing the book and are not … Continue reading
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