Leonard Nevarez
@leonardnevarez.bsky.social
Vassar professor, urban sociologist, music lifer, Hudson Valley resident, dad
New publication! I ponder the mythic scene & urban legacy of the Paisley Underground in a just-released volume, Underground Music Cultures and Music-Making in Los Angeles: Imaginary Cities.
Fans of Dream Syndicate, Bangles, Rain Parade et al, read my chapter here: pages.vassar.edu/musicalurban...
Fans of Dream Syndicate, Bangles, Rain Parade et al, read my chapter here: pages.vassar.edu/musicalurban...
March 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
New publication! I ponder the mythic scene & urban legacy of the Paisley Underground in a just-released volume, Underground Music Cultures and Music-Making in Los Angeles: Imaginary Cities.
Fans of Dream Syndicate, Bangles, Rain Parade et al, read my chapter here: pages.vassar.edu/musicalurban...
Fans of Dream Syndicate, Bangles, Rain Parade et al, read my chapter here: pages.vassar.edu/musicalurban...
🇲🇽 has my ethnic solidarity 🇨🇦 has my deepest societal admiration.
My life has been changed by Canadians I've met abroad (friendships going back to 1983) and, for the last 10 years, in Toronto to work on a forthcoming book about the city, its 1970s/80s Queen Street West art-music scene...
My life has been changed by Canadians I've met abroad (friendships going back to 1983) and, for the last 10 years, in Toronto to work on a forthcoming book about the city, its 1970s/80s Queen Street West art-music scene...
February 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🇲🇽 has my ethnic solidarity 🇨🇦 has my deepest societal admiration.
My life has been changed by Canadians I've met abroad (friendships going back to 1983) and, for the last 10 years, in Toronto to work on a forthcoming book about the city, its 1970s/80s Queen Street West art-music scene...
My life has been changed by Canadians I've met abroad (friendships going back to 1983) and, for the last 10 years, in Toronto to work on a forthcoming book about the city, its 1970s/80s Queen Street West art-music scene...
Four hours into 24 Hours of Eno 😵💫
Next screening of his documentary at 4:30 EST.
www.anamorph.com/eno24
Next screening of his documentary at 4:30 EST.
www.anamorph.com/eno24
January 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Four hours into 24 Hours of Eno 😵💫
Next screening of his documentary at 4:30 EST.
www.anamorph.com/eno24
Next screening of his documentary at 4:30 EST.
www.anamorph.com/eno24
17 minutes into the 24 Hours of Eno event and I still haven't received an email with the streaming link. 😕
January 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
17 minutes into the 24 Hours of Eno event and I still haven't received an email with the streaming link. 😕
New syllabus for my undergraduate urban studies course: Urban Theory
facultysites.vassar.edu/lenevare/202...
(Yes, this URL leads to an unsecured site. I hope the college domain reassures you this is legit!)
facultysites.vassar.edu/lenevare/202...
(Yes, this URL leads to an unsecured site. I hope the college domain reassures you this is legit!)
Urban Theory (Spring 2025): Course Description
facultysites.vassar.edu
January 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
New syllabus for my undergraduate urban studies course: Urban Theory
facultysites.vassar.edu/lenevare/202...
(Yes, this URL leads to an unsecured site. I hope the college domain reassures you this is legit!)
facultysites.vassar.edu/lenevare/202...
(Yes, this URL leads to an unsecured site. I hope the college domain reassures you this is legit!)
New syllabus for my undergraduate sociology seminar: Corporate Power
Finished one syllabus for the coming semester @vassar.bsky.social: SOCI 312 Corporate Power
facultysites.vassar.edu/lenevare/202...
facultysites.vassar.edu/lenevare/202...
Corporate Power (Spring 2025)
facultysites.vassar.edu
January 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
New syllabus for my undergraduate sociology seminar: Corporate Power
Finished one syllabus for the coming semester @vassar.bsky.social: SOCI 312 Corporate Power
facultysites.vassar.edu/lenevare/202...
facultysites.vassar.edu/lenevare/202...
Corporate Power (Spring 2025)
facultysites.vassar.edu
January 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Finished one syllabus for the coming semester @vassar.bsky.social: SOCI 312 Corporate Power
facultysites.vassar.edu/lenevare/202...
facultysites.vassar.edu/lenevare/202...
So glad I squeezed this book in before the semester begins next week. @brettchristophers.bsky.social draws an instructive map of financialization’s spear tip into housing, utilities, farmland, and other infrastructure of everyday life. At the very least, I can now tell BlackRock from Blackstone.
January 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
So glad I squeezed this book in before the semester begins next week. @brettchristophers.bsky.social draws an instructive map of financialization’s spear tip into housing, utilities, farmland, and other infrastructure of everyday life. At the very least, I can now tell BlackRock from Blackstone.
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We are at the stupidest stage of the dialectic.
January 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
We are at the stupidest stage of the dialectic.
I gave Threads a good run, especially for music commentary, but... you know. I'm back on Bluesky!
January 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I gave Threads a good run, especially for music commentary, but... you know. I'm back on Bluesky!
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BREAKING >> In a big victory for organized labor, non-tenured faculty and other academic employees at Harvard University vote overwhelmingly -- 1,094 to 81 -- to join the Harvard Academic Workers-United Auto Workers, forming a union of more than 3,000 Harvard workers.
April 5, 2024 at 8:38 PM
BREAKING >> In a big victory for organized labor, non-tenured faculty and other academic employees at Harvard University vote overwhelmingly -- 1,094 to 81 -- to join the Harvard Academic Workers-United Auto Workers, forming a union of more than 3,000 Harvard workers.
Another force for inequality, this one geographical:
"This phenomenon — expanding the distance between work and home — ... is one largely concentrated among people who earn more than $100,000 and work in jobs like tech, finance, law, marketing and accounting."
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/b...
"This phenomenon — expanding the distance between work and home — ... is one largely concentrated among people who earn more than $100,000 and work in jobs like tech, finance, law, marketing and accounting."
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/b...
March 4, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Another force for inequality, this one geographical:
"This phenomenon — expanding the distance between work and home — ... is one largely concentrated among people who earn more than $100,000 and work in jobs like tech, finance, law, marketing and accounting."
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/b...
"This phenomenon — expanding the distance between work and home — ... is one largely concentrated among people who earn more than $100,000 and work in jobs like tech, finance, law, marketing and accounting."
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/b...
This first set of Intro Sociology essays suggests I may have conjured an entire class of (gulp) Bourdieusians 😳
February 19, 2024 at 11:58 PM
This first set of Intro Sociology essays suggests I may have conjured an entire class of (gulp) Bourdieusians 😳
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This piece by Carol J. Petty on what the anti-Sociology business is really all about in Florida is worth a read. www.baltimoresun.com/2024/02/02/s...
February 3, 2024 at 2:56 PM
This piece by Carol J. Petty on what the anti-Sociology business is really all about in Florida is worth a read. www.baltimoresun.com/2024/02/02/s...
Should be the primary issue in 2024 elections, but... www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1...
www.npr.org
January 26, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Should be the primary issue in 2024 elections, but... www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1...
I thought the Curb Your Enthusiasm oral history and Brian Eno interview that the LA Times published yesterday seemed suspiciously high-value content.
Yes please! Don't cross the digital picket line. Don't read LA Times stories online Friday and don't share them on social media.
Do you want readers/subscribers to boycott the site for the day as well? Or is that not helpful to the Guild?
January 19, 2024 at 6:22 PM
I thought the Curb Your Enthusiasm oral history and Brian Eno interview that the LA Times published yesterday seemed suspiciously high-value content.
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Yes please! Don't cross the digital picket line. Don't read LA Times stories online Friday and don't share them on social media.
Do you want readers/subscribers to boycott the site for the day as well? Or is that not helpful to the Guild?
January 19, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Yes please! Don't cross the digital picket line. Don't read LA Times stories online Friday and don't share them on social media.
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Great local reporting here. Because this is America, fascism will be a largely decentralized phenomenon, rooted in towns and counties. But also tied together through national media, and rooted in one of our two national political parties. www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/4...
Far-right extremism is thriving in rural areas. Here's what it looks like in Upstate NY
When we set out to look at far-right extremism in Upstate New York, we had a few basic questions. First, we wanted to know the status of the far-right movement here. What do people believe in? What gr...
www.northcountrypublicradio.org
January 16, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Great local reporting here. Because this is America, fascism will be a largely decentralized phenomenon, rooted in towns and counties. But also tied together through national media, and rooted in one of our two national political parties. www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/4...
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The 90s coursepack was our mixtape.
As I put together and update my syllabi, I'm reminded of the "coursepacks" that were so common in the 1980s and 1990s. We get the luxury of dropping in links today to create a mosaic of new and eclectic content, but the coursepack was a hand-made, laborious confection. 🗃️
January 15, 2024 at 2:24 AM
The 90s coursepack was our mixtape.
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Not on MLK day, satan.
January 15, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Not on MLK day, satan.