[Arkansas Toothpick]

Here are some of her published articles:

2006 Halnon, Karen Bettez. “Heavy Metal Carnival and Disalienation: The Politics of Grotesque Realism.” Symbolic Interaction. Special Issue on Popular Music in Everyday Life. Winter, Volume 29: No. 1, pp. 33-48. (One of “The Most Frequently Read Articles” at Symbolic Interaction).

2005 Halnon, Karen Bettez and Saundra Cohen. “Muscles, Motorcycles, and Tattoos: Gentrification in a New Frontier.” Journal of Consumer Culture. March, Volume 6, 33-56. (One of “The Most Frequently Read” articles at the Journal of Consumer Culture).
2005 Halnon, Karen Bettez. “Alienation Incorporated: ‘F*** the Mainstream Music’ in the Mainstream.” Current Sociology. Journal of the International Sociology Association. May, Volume 53(4): 441-464. SAGE (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi). (One of “The Most Frequently Read Articles” at Current Sociology).

2004 Halnon, Karen Bettez. “Inside Shock Music Carnival: Spectacle as Contested Terrain.” Critical Sociology, October, Volume 30.3, pp. 743-779.

[Second Amendment First]

Research and Teaching Areas: racial and ethnic inequality; capitalism and class; White and Black poverty; empire and imperialism; Central or Latin American studies; consumption; music scenes and subcultures; liberation theology; revolution; stigma; symbolic interaction; women and madness; marijuana; sociology of deviance; Marxist theory; postmodernist criticism; ideology

[Gaffer]

She goes to the concerts for “research” and druuuugggggggs.

[EternalVigilance]

Telling.

[struggle]

Lol, she’s got a winning CV.