{"id":1138,"date":"2012-07-23T21:03:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T02:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2012-07-23T21:09:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T02:09:37","slug":"cello-its-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2012\/07\/23\/cello-its-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Cello It’s Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0I\u00a0went to a rock concert the other night and a cello\u00a0recital broke out. It was a standard summer festival, but\u00a0the three bands\u00a0I saw (Avett Brothers, Lumineers, and Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles) all\u00a0featured\u00a0more\u00a0cello than\u00a0ELO<\/a>. While\u00a0I made some pretty\u00a0outlandish predictions as a music writer — pegging Stan Ridgway as the\u00a0Dylan of the New American West<\/em>,\u00a0to take but one erroneous prediction\u00a0—\u00a0I\u00a0never<\/em> foresaw so many beer-drinking twentysomethings whooping it up over\u00a0a cello solo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sarah Lageson’s Office Hours<\/a>\u00a0interview with Jennifer Lena is helping me puzzle through the mystery. Professor Lena’s Banding Together<\/a> offers a rich sociological account of musical communities and Ms. Lageson is an especially knowledgable\u00a0interviewer. That’s why we’ve paired\u00a0her KFAI radio documentary on Minnesota’s Bluegrass Revival<\/a>\u00a0— from Bill Monroe to Trampled by Turtles — with this podcast.\u00a0Sarah plays banjo, rather than cello, but she’s an active\u00a0performer and radio producer\u00a0who knows a lot about musical\u00a0genres (and, I might add, as of 2:32 pm she’s also ABD<\/a>). If this one whets your appetite for a sociological discussion of music and culture, you might\u00a0also check out Dave Grazian’s two-part podcast<\/a> with Chuck Klosterman.<\/p>\n

While we’ve yet to launch TSP-TV, we’ve always\u00a0envisioned The Society Pages as a multimedia project.\u00a0Office Hours<\/a>, Improv<\/a> and New Books<\/a> listeners have been especially supportive of TSP — and vocal in their requests for more podcasts. We’ll do all we can to feed the need\u00a0in ways that\u00a0connect social science with the social world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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