Leonard Nevarez

Congratulations on the book's publication! These edited volumes aren't so easy to pull off.

New publication! I ponder the mythic scene & urban legacy of the Paisley Underground in a just-released volume, Underground Music Cultures and Music-Making in Los Angeles: Imaginary Cities.

Fans of Dream Syndicate, Bangles, Rain Parade et al, read my chapter here: pages.vassar.edu/musicalurban...

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... and Canada's greatest (new wave) band, Martha and the Muffins.

Here’s a 2017 blog post that spins off my research on suburban alienation, scene development, downtown renaissance, and some great forgotten bands: pages.vassar.edu/musicalurban...

🇲🇽 has my ethnic solidarity 🇨🇦 has my deepest societal admiration.

My life has been changed by Canadians I've met abroad (friendships going back to 1983) and, for the last 10 years, in Toronto to work on a forthcoming book about the city, its 1970s/80s Queen Street West art-music scene...

Four hours into 24 Hours of Eno 😵‍💫
Next screening of his documentary at 4:30 EST.
www.anamorph.com/eno24

17 minutes into the 24 Hours of Eno event and I still haven't received an email with the streaming link. 😕

Have you received the email "30 minutes before the event starts with your unique streaming link" yet? I haven't!

I think I may be a handful of faculty left who use this domain. Few others want to play with file transfers; for them, there's the college's Wordpress license.

New syllabus for my undergraduate urban studies course: Urban Theory

facultysites.vassar.edu/lenevare/202...

(Yes, this URL leads to an unsecured site. I hope the college domain reassures you this is legit!)

For some reason, the URL I shared is http (not secure), not https, and so the security on your browser probably won't load that. I will try to get this fixed.

New syllabus for my undergraduate sociology seminar: Corporate Power

Finished one syllabus for the coming semester @vassar.bsky.social: SOCI 312 Corporate Power

facultysites.vassar.edu/lenevare/202...

Brett Christophers, Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World

So glad I squeezed this book in before the semester begins next week. @brettchristophers.bsky.social draws an instructive map of financialization’s spear tip into housing, utilities, farmland, and other infrastructure of everyday life. At the very least, I can now tell BlackRock from Blackstone.

We are at the stupidest stage of the dialectic.

Thanks for reminding me: tix for the Marc Ribot Quartet in Hudson NY went kn sale today!

I'm focused more on content/tone. Truth/political news are generally good until the mood of doom starts to psychologically paralyze me, and then I need memes/lolz.

I gave Threads a good run, especially for music commentary, but... you know. I'm back on Bluesky!

BREAKING >> In a big victory for organized labor, non-tenured faculty and other academic employees at Harvard University vote overwhelmingly -- 1,094 to 81 -- to join the Harvard Academic Workers-United Auto Workers, forming a union of more than 3,000 Harvard workers.

Another force for inequality, this one geographical:
"This phenomenon — expanding the distance between work and home — ... is one largely concentrated among people who earn more than $100,000 and work in jobs like tech, finance, law, marketing and accounting."

www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/b...

Chilwell doesn't chill well

Have I lost my mojo for Marx and Weber?

This first set of Intro Sociology essays suggests I may have conjured an entire class of (gulp) Bourdieusians 😳

This piece by Carol J. Petty on what the anti-Sociology business is really all about in Florida is worth a read. www.baltimoresun.com/2024/02/02/s...

Should be the primary issue in 2024 elections, but... www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1...

I thought the Curb Your Enthusiasm oral history and Brian Eno interview that the LA Times published yesterday seemed suspiciously high-value content.

Yes please! Don't cross the digital picket line. Don't read LA Times stories online Friday and don't share them on social media.

You should have gone up for early tenure/promotion!

Far-right extremism is thriving in rural areas. Here's what it looks like in Upstate NY When we set out to look at far-right extremism in Upstate New York, we had a few basic questions. First, we wanted to know the status of the far-right movement here. What do people believe in? What gr...

Great local reporting here. Because this is America, fascism will be a largely decentralized phenomenon, rooted in towns and counties. But also tied together through national media, and rooted in one of our two national political parties. www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/4...