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

I recently sat down with Tim Storhoff to chat about his new book Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy. Check out our discussion here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/harmony-and-normalization

I learned so much from this book. Check out our interview here:

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-peculiar-afterlife-of-slavery

This was a fun interview! Check out this episode here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/neil-shister-radical-ritual-how-burning-man-changed-the-world-counterpoint-2019/?fbclid=IwAR33hXLgQReRU6nL1LbHxokyeouj31siYYEhLnH4fwJEVo3zpTBD8BJMY-0

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Check out my latest episode of New Books in Celebration Studies, featuring an interview with Dr. Fabian Holt about his forthcoming book Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions. Listen at this webpage or wherever you get your podcasts: https://newbooksnetwork.com/fabian-holt-everyone-loves…/

I also recently had the pleasure of interviewing the Stooges Brass Band and Kyle DeCoste about their new book, Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game. Apparently I’m now an honorary Stoogette. 😛 Check out this New Books in Celebration Studies episode in the link or anywhere you get your podcasts: https://newbooksnetwork.com/stooges-brass-band-cant-be-faded-twenty-years-in-the-new-orleans-brass-band-game-u-mississippi-press-2020/

Navigating a 14-hour time difference for the interview, I recently talked with Dr. Judith Mair about the Routledge Handbook of Festivals. The book has been SO useful for my dissertation process, especially in learning about other disciplines’ perspectives on festivals. To learn more about this handbook, check out the latest New Books in Celebration Studies episode here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://newbooksnetwork.com/judith-mair-the-routledge-handbook-of-festivals-routledge-2018/