The Philadelphia Sound This Is the Fourth Article in a Series Highlighting ASA’S 50S, and 60S

VOLUME 33 JULY/AUGUST 2005 NUMBER 6 2005 ASA Annual Meeting . Our 100th Meeting! The Philadelphia Sound This is the fourth article in a series highlighting ASA’s 50s, and 60s. The city was home to more African-American sound than they had upcoming 2005 centennial meeting in Philadelphia. jazz musicians than perhaps any city, previously heard in the California- save New York. Musicians found each centric “cool” jazz movement, East by Jerome Hodos, Franklin and Marshall protected, fertile enclave in which other gigs and played together—John Coast jazz musicians in the mid-1950s College, and David Grazian, cultural production can germinate. Coltrane, for example, played in both created a roots-oriented jazz—called University of Pennsylvania Musical innovation has relied on the Jimmy Heath’s and Jimmy Smith’s hard bop—that incorporated significant vitality of largely segregated community bands, and later hired local talents elements from blues and black church Since World War II, music has been institutions such as the black church. For Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner for music. Philadelphia was a main center Philadelphia’s public face to the world. instance, rhythm-and-blues pioneer his own classic quartet. In search of a for hard bop, home to crucial performers While fulfilling their duties as unofficial Solomon Burke long led his own more urban, gritty, and what was like Clifford Brown, Benny Golson, John representatives of the “City of Brotherly congregation in the city. (Another thought of as a more authentically See Philadelphia, page 7 Love”, local musicians worked to codify example: the white, teen pop of the late and symbolize the state of the city’s 1950s was made popular via Dick black community through a succession Clark’s TV show American Bandstand, of distinct musical styles. From a taped in a studio at 46th and Market Results of 2005 ASA Election sociological point of view, three features Streets. Its major performers—Bobby Rydell, Fabian, and Frankie Avalon— of these recurring “Philadelphia sounds” With a record number of voters, ASA The 2005 stand out: the music’s roots in neighbor- grew up in the same working class, members have elected Frances Fox Piven, election marked hood institutions like churches; a dense, Italian-American neighborhood of South Graduate Center, City University of New the third year that localized network of musicians who gig Philadelphia, and got into the business York as President-elect, and Bonnie ASA members had and record with each other, making with the help of neighborhood entrepre- Thornton Dill, University of Maryland as the option to cast innovation a collaborative process; and neurs and musicians.) Vice President-elect. Piven and Dill will their votes via the countless local enterprises (recording The music hardly stayed in these assume their respective offices in August paper ballot or studios, record shops, nightclubs, and enclaves. Each group of musical innova- of 2006, following a year of service as online. Nearly more) that the network builds and tors founded its own set of locations and President-elect and Vice President-elect, 3,000 of the votes popularizes. companies. Since the 1950s, these music respectively. Piven and the 2007 Program submitted were Popular cultural scenes and their mavens have sought each other out for Committee will be responsible for shaping cast online, with Bonnie Thornton Dill producers draw from the working class rehearsal, live dates or guest appear- the 2007 ASA Annual Meeting, scheduled the remaining 32% and minority groups, rather than from ances on records; attracted musicians for August 11-14, 2007 in New York City. cast via paper ballot. historic elites. The neighborhoods that from other cities eager to work with local In 2003, Piven In announcing the results of the serve as home to most black musicians talent; and used their collaborations to was honored election, Secretary Franklin D. Wilson and in Philadelphia are parts of the large articulate a collective sound that came to with the ASA Executive Officer Sally T. Hillsman urban ring that served as areas of first- define a time and a place. Three main Distinguished extended their heartiest congratulations to and later second-generation migrant periods and styles of innovation have Career Award for the newly elected officers and committee settlement: just south of Center City in been deeply rooted in the African- the Practice of members. They also expressed their South Philadelphia, lower North American community in Philadelphia: Sociology. appreciation to all who have served the Association by running for office and by Philadelphia west of Broad Street north hard bop in the 1950s and 1960s, the soul Piven’s primary area of concentra- voting in this election. through Germantown, Mt. Airy, West music of the famed “Philadelphia tion is American Philadelphia, and (recently) Overbrook. Sound” in the 1960s and 1970s, and the politics, with Below is the full slate of newly elected Many celebrated performers attended 1990s “neo-soul” movement, in which Frances Fox Piven special interests officers and committee members: R&B (and occasionally jazz) elements are school together or lived on adjacent in social welfare intertwined with hip-hop. President-Elect blocks. policy, political movements, and electoral Philadelphia was one of the most Frances Fox Piven, Graduate School and Collectively, these neighborhood- politics. Her books include The War at important centers for jazz in the 1940s, University Center, City University of based ethnic communities provide a Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush’s New York Militarism (2004); Why Americans Don’t Vice President-Elect Vote, and Politicians Like It That Way (with Bonnie Thornton Dill, University of Recipients of 2005 ASA Awards Richard Cloward, 2000); and The Breaking Maryland of the American Social Compact (with Council Members-at-Large The American Sociological Association proudly announces the recipients of the major Richard Cloward, 1997). Judith D. Auerbach, American Foundation awards for 2005. These outstanding scholars will be recognized at the 2005 Annual Also elected, were four new Members- th for AIDS Research Meeting Awards Ceremony on Sunday, August 14 at 4:30 pm at the Philadelphia at-Large for the ASA Council: Judith D. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of Loews Hotel. Auerbach, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Michele California-Berkeley The ASA awards are conferred on sociologists for outstanding publications and Lamont, and Gay W. Seidman. The at- Michèle Lamont, Harvard University achievements in the scholarship, teaching, and the practice of sociology. Award large Council members will take office at Gay W. Seidman, University of Wisconsin recipients are selected by committees appointed by the Committee on Committees the end of the 2005 Annual Meeting in –Madison and the ASA Council. Philadelphia and will each serve a three- Committee on Publications year term. In addition, members elected The Awards Ceremony will immediately precede the formal address of ASA President Michael Hout, University of California- two members to the Committee on Troy Duster. All registrants are invited to attend an Honorary Reception immediately Berkeley Publications, six to the Committee on following the address to congratulate President Duster and the award recipients. Kathyrn J. Edin, University of Penn- Nominations, and four to the Committee sylvania The officers of the Association extend heartfelt congratulations to the following on Committees. Committee on Nominations honorees: The ASA community can take pride Nancy DiTomaso, Rutgers University that while other membership associations Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award Susan J. Ferguson, Grinnell College are experiencing declining voter participa- Charles Tilly, Columbia University Glenn Firebaugh, Pennsylvania State tion rates, ASA member participation is Jessie Bernard Award University increasing. Of the 10,942 members eligible Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of California-Berkeley Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of to vote, 4,422 ballots were cast, constitut- Delaware Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology ing a 40.41% response rate, which is a Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of William Kornblum, Graduate Center, CUNY significant increase over the 2004 election, Southern California the largest number of voters, and the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award Sharon M. Lee, Portland State University highest response rate in more than 25 Beverly J. Silver, Johns Hopkins University Committee on Committees years. The increase in member participa- Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization since 1870 Jeffrey Chin, LeMoyne College tion appears to be due to the addition of a Lora Bex Lempert, University of Michigan Public Understanding of Sociology Award new service with the 2005 election: –Dearborn Pepper Schwartz, University of Washington personalized email reminders urging Debra Umberson, University of Texas- Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award members to vote. Spikes in voter participa- Austin tion correlate directly to the timing of Caroline Hodges Persell, New York University Sarah Susannah Willie, Swarthmore those emails. College ❑ PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 2 JULY/AUGUST 2005 FOOTNOTES The Executive Officer’s Column In This Issue . Global Sociology and the ASA Centenary The centenary of the American Sociological Association is an opportunity for sociologists to reflect on the development of our discipline in the United States

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