Lisa McCormick Author & Editor

Ron Eyerman is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. His recent books include Music and Social Movements (1998) and Cultural Trauma Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity (2002), both from Cambridge University Press. An accomplished cellist, Lisa McCormick is a graduate student at the Department of Sociology, Yale University. Her doctoral thesis applies the performance perspective in an analysis of music competitions.