Abstrakt
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, we often gathered as scholars. We talked, ate, drank, chatted, argued, and learned together at annual meetings. En route, we would likely have taken a series of flights from our particular local airport that would gradually surround us with more and more people who do what we do; at a larger regional or international hub, we might find ourselves on a flight filled with colleagues and professional acquaintances all headed for the same conference – finishing up presentations on laptops, catching each other up on the latest disciplinary news and gossip.
Biografie autora
is an ethnomusicologist and musician who works and plays in bluegrass and other US string band forms. His research interests include early music, boundary crossings in popular music between Czech-American, sacred-secular, and (in US racial discourse) white-black. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University.
