Publications

BOOKS

Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport (University of Chicago Press, Fall 2015)

The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York (University of Chicago Press, Jack Katz and Robert Emerson’s ‘Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries’ series, 2012)

Urban Cultures: Exploring the Meanings and Spaces of City Life, co-authored with Andrew Deener (Oxford University Press, Under Contract)

ARTICLES

2017 “An arson spree in college town: community enhancement through media convergence,” Media, Culture, & Society 39(3).

2016 “On the Sociology of Occasions,” Sociological Theory 34(3).

2016 “The Sites and Sounds of Placemaking: Branding, festivalization, and the contemporary city.” Journal of Popular Music Studies. (Forthcoming and co-authored with Ayse Yetis-Bakraktar)

2012 “From The Hobo to Doormen: The Characters of Qualitative Past and Present,” Ethnography 12(4): 518-542.

2011 “Guides through Cultural Work: A Methodological Framework for the Study of Cultural Intermediaries,” Cultural Sociology 6(3): 336-350.

2011 “Elective Affiliations: Marginal Characters Negotiating Legitimacy and Autonomy in Urban Culture,” International Journal of Social Inquiry 4(1): 133-157.

2010 “City Tour Guides: Urban Alchemists at Work,” City and Community 9(2): 145-64. (lead article)

2009 “Digital Sociology: Emergent technologies in the field and the classroom,”  Sociological Forum 24(2): 448-456.

2007 “Field Note: Guiding Ideas,” Contexts 6(1): 56-7.

2006 “Mystagogi on the Hudson: Making Meaning in Public Space,” Radical Society 3(1).

2005 “Guiding Practices: Some Tricks of Walking Tour Guides,” Qualitative Sociology 28 (4): 397-415. *Reprinted in Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Ethnography, 2012. R. Ocejo (ed) New York: Routledge.

2004 “Bobos on the Road” Qualitative Inquiry 10(3): 431-442.

OP-EDS, BLOGGING, DISCUSSIONS, AND BOOK, ARTICLE, & CULTURE REVIEWS 

Everyday Sociology Blogging, July 2012-September 2014, September 2015-present

2019 “Fyre Debacle Shows How Smaller Acts Get Burned,” (with Alexandre Frenette) The Conversation, March 4.

2017 “Gentrification? Some cities say ‘Bring it,'” (with Andrew Deener) The Conversation, October 10. (Reprinted in CNN, Salon , and The New Statesman)

2017 “No Surveillance Cameras in Downtown,” Hampshire Gazette, September 15.

2017 “Are There Too Many Music Festivals?” The Conversation, April 13. (Reprinted in The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, AP’s The Big Story)

2016 “Why cities should stop building museums and focus on festivals,” The Conversation, May 12. (Reprinted in The New Statesman, Raw Story, AP’s The Big Story)

2016 “How Music Festivals Shape Cities, a Conversation between Jonathan Wynn and Richard Florida,” The Atlantic‘s CityLab, February 3.

2016 “Welcome to Austin, Don’t Move Here,” The Guardian, March 14.

2015 “The Longest Job Visit,” Inside Higher Ed May 1.

2010 Book Review of A Neighborhood that Never Changes (by Japonica Brown-Saracino, 2010) American Journal of Sociology 116(3).

2011 Book Review of Environmental City (by Scott Swearingen Jr., 2010) Great Plains Review.

2011 “I’ll Take a Walk” Social Shutter October.

2008 Culture Review: “Trespassing in Someone Else’s Utopia: Reviewing the Country Music Association’s Nashville Music Festival.” Contexts 7(2): 67-69.

2007 “Travel and Travel Writing,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition. William A. Darity, Editor In Chief.