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, co-authored with Dr. Isabel Machado, can be found here: https://journals.h-net.org/jfs/article/view/91

Looking forward to seeing what’s next as Dr. Allen!

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)

Alessandro Testa, Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe (Routledge, 2020)

Candace Bailey, Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South (U Illinois Press, 2021)

Mark A. Johnson, Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932 (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Jill P. Ingram, Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)

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

In the last 2020 episode of New Books in Celebration Studies, I chat with Dr. Timothy Larsen about the recently published _Oxford Handbook of Christmas_. Episode link here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-oxford-handbook-of-christmas

In the latest episode of New Books in Celebration Studies, Reebee Garofalo, Erin Allen, and Andrew Snyder talked with me about the book HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism. Link to the episode: https://newbooksnetwork.com/honk