Author Archives: emmyru91

My dissertation chapter on Mobile’s Excelsior Band has now been published as an article in the Alabama Folklife Association’s journal Tributaries. It’ll be online and open-access eventually, but in the meantime you can buy a copy of the journal for $12: https://www.alabamafolklife.org/shop/p/tributaries-16

My review of Paul Devlin’s Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues is now available in the latest issue of The Bulletin of the Society for American Music: https://www.american-music.org/page/BulletinCurrent

I had the pleasure of reviewing one of my favorite books for the Oral History Journal. Check out my review of Rebecca Dirksen’s After the Dance, the Drums are Heavy: https://www.ohs.org.uk/reviews/after-the-dance-the-drums-are-heavy-carnival-politics-and-musical-engagement-in-haiti/?fbclid=IwAR2Uea-U3A2mcghsw-vL8iSACH3y_0bSn-wLlm8Ii2gk6Rk1pIdhusMeopI

I was recently interviewed by Todd Burns of Music Journalism Insider! Honored and flattered to be invited. You can read the interview here for free until April 18, 2022: https://www.musicjournalisminsider.com/archive/emily-ruth-allen-interview/

I’m pleased to share that I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation, “Brass B(r)ands in Mobile, Alabama’s Mardi Gras,” so I am now officially Dr. Emily Ruth Allen! I have also released a few new New Books Network episodes in the latter half of 2021, which you can find here: https://newbooksnetwork.com//hosts/profile/d0e36e2b-c234-46cb-a7a5-f2ed5110141e Finally, my first journal article,Continue reading “A Look Back At The Last Few Months!”

I am pleased to share the New Books Network episodes I completed over the summer of 2021! Take a listen: Katrina Phillips, Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History (UNC Press, 2021) Cécile Fromont, Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition (Penn State, 2019)Continue reading “Summer 2021 NBN Episodes!”

Check out my latest New Books in Music episode with Dr. Philip Auslander, focusing on his book In Concert: Performing Musical Persona: https://newbooksnetwork.com/in-concert

I had the pleasure of recently talking with Dr. Regina N. Bradley about her new book Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-hop South. Link to episode: https://newbooksnetwork.com/chronicling-stankonia

This was a fun conversation! Check out my interview with Dr. Amanda Ann Klein about her book Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming: https://newbooksnetwork.com/millennials-killed-the-video-star

Dr. Njoroge M. Njoroge talks about his book Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean. Check out his discussion with me here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/chocolate-surrealism

2021 is off to a great start for the series! Check out the latest episodes here: Festive Devils of the Americas: https://newbooksnetwork.com/festive-devils-of-the-americas Jump Up!: Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City: https://newbooksnetwork.com/jump-up The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-ethnography-of-tourism

In the first 2021 episode of New Books in Celebration Studies, Jason Berry and I talk about his book City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300. Listen to it here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/city-of-a-million-dreams