In 2008, I attended an academic conference called “Exploring New Media Worlds,” at which I gave a paper on mp3 bloggers, record labels, affective labor, and so forth.  My panel were all discussing similar ways in which music was working itself out online, and the audience had a bunch of interesting questions.  After the session [...]

I got to meet Richard Peterson, now an emeritus professor at Vanderbilt, earlier this year at a conference (he actually asked for a copy of my paper [omg]), and am just now sitting down with his essential “Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity” (U. Chicago Press, 1997). I came across a publicity site for the [...]