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Celebration Studies
Celebration Studies
February 10, 2021
The Ethnography of Tourism
Edward Bruner and Beyond
Naomi M. Leite, Quetzil E. Castañeda, Kathleen Adams
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Edited by Naomi M. Leite, Quetzil E. Castañeda, and Kathleen M. Adams, The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (Lexington Books, 2019) focuses on the experience-near, interpretive-humanistic approach to tourism studies widely associated …
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Celebration Studies
February 9, 2021
Jump Up!
Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City
Ray Allen
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Jump Up!: Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City (Oxford University Press, 2019) is a comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Blending urban studies, oral history, archival research …
Celebration Studies
February 4, 2021
Festive Devils of the Americas
Milla Cozart Riggio, Angela Marino, and Paolo Vignolo
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devil—the devil that dances—turns the most hideous acts into playful transgressions …
Folklore
January 25, 2021
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest
Rachelle Hope Saltzman
Hosted by Nancy Yan
On January 21, 2017, the day after Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, hundreds of cities in the U.S. and across the globe organized Women’s Marches in response to Trump’s misogynistic comments …
Celebration Studies
January 19, 2021
City of a Million Dreams
A History of New Orleans at Year 300
Jason Berry
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
In City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Jason Berry delivers a history of New Orleans at its tricentennial. Beyond …
Celebration Studies
December 23, 2020
The Oxford Handbook of Christmas
Timothy Larsen
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Edited by Dr. Timothy Larsen, The Oxford Handbook of Christmas (Oxford University Press, 2020) provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of all aspects of Christmas across the globe, from the specifically religious to the …
Celebration Studies
December 21, 2020
Honk!
A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism
Reebee Garofalo, Erin T. Allen, Andrew Snyder
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism (Routledge, 2020), edited by Reebee Garofalo, Erin T. Allen, and Andrew Snyder, explores a fast-growing and transnational movement of street bands—particularly …
Animal Studies
December 18, 2020
Shaving the Beasts
Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain
John Hartigan Jr.
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Wild horses still roam the mountains of Galicia, Spain. But each year, in a ritual dating to the 1500s called rapa das bestas, villagers herd these “beasts” together and shave …
Indian Religions
December 11, 2020
White Utopias
The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals
Amanda J. Lucia
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. In White Utopias: The …
Performing Arts
October 26, 2020
Radical Ritual
How Burning Man Changed the World
Neil Shister
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Written from Neil Shister’s perspective as a journalist, student of American culture, and six-time participant in Burning Man, Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World (Counterpoint, 2019) presents the …
Music
September 29, 2020
Everyone Loves Live Music
A Theory of Performance Institutions
Fabian Holt
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
In Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions (University of Chicago Press), Fabian Holt shows how festivals and other institutions of musical performance have evolved in recent decades …
Folklore
September 17, 2020
Public Performances
Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque
Jack Santino
Hosted by Isabel Machado
Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque (University Press of Colorado) offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political …
American Studies
August 19, 2020
Unfair Labor?
American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
David R. M. Beck
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition was in many ways the crowning event of the nineteenth century United States. Held in Chicago, the metropolis of the West, and visited by tens …
Performing Arts
August 10, 2020
New Orleans Carnival Balls
The Secret Side of Mardi Gras, 1870-1920
Jennifer Atkins
Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
In New Orleans Carnival Balls: The Secret Side of Mardi Gras, 1870-1920 (LSU Press, 2017), Dr. Jennifer Atkins draws back the curtain on the origin of the exclusive Mardi Gras …
American Studies
July 29, 2020
Newest Born of Nations
European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy
Ann Tucker
Hosted by Christopher Babits
From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical role in how southerners thought about their new southern …
American Studies
June 18, 2020
The Commemoration of Women in the United States
Remembering Women in Public Space
Teresa Bergman
Hosted by Lee Pierce
On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (s/t) interviews Teresa Bergman of the University of the Pacific on The Commemoration of Women in the United States: Remembering …
Celebration Studies
June 11, 2020
Southern Decadence in New Orleans
Howard Philips Smith
Hosted by Isabel Machado
Almost a year ago, on my second interview for this podcast, I talked to Howard Philips Smith about Unveiling the Muse: The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans …
American Studies
June 10, 2020
The Loud Minority
Why Protests Matter in American Democracy
Daniel Q. Gillion
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Scientist Daniel Q. Gillion’s new book, The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2020) is an incredibly topical and important analysis of the connection …
American Studies
October 28, 2019
This Land Is Their Land
The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
David J. Silverman
Hosted by Annabel G. LaBrecque
What really happened at “the first Thanksgiving”? In This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving (Bloomsbury, 2019), historian David J. Silverman …
African American Studies
October 25, 2019
You Can’t Eat Freedom
Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement
Greta de Jong
Hosted by Beth English
Professor Greta de Jong of the University of Nevada, Reno, discusses her book, You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement (University of North Carolina …
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