Publications

2‍020. “Marking time in lockdown: heroization and ritualization in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 8: 324–351. 10.1057/s41290-020-00117-8

2018. “Pogorelich at the Chopin: Towards a Sociology of Competition Scandals.” The Chopin Review 1: 52-73. (http://chopinreview.com/pages/issue/7/1)

2015. “The agency of dead musicians.” Contemporary Social Science. 10(3): 323-235. 10.1080/21582041.2015.1114664

2014. “Tuning In or Turning Off: Performing Emotion and Building Cosmopolitan Solidarity in International Music Competitions.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 37(12): 2261-2280. 10.1080/01419870.2014.934262

‍ 2009. “Higher, Faster, Louder: Representations of the International Music Competition.” Cultural Sociology, 3(1):5-30. 10.1177/1749975508100669

Forthcoming. “Scandalous Choices: Moral Disturbances in Classical Music Competitions.” In: McCormick, Lisa, Christoph Müller-Oberhäuser and Tobias Werron, Eds. The Oxford Handbook of Competition in Music. Oxford University Press.

McCormick, Lisa, Christoph Müller-Oberhäuser and Tobias Werron. Forthcoming. “Competition(s) in Music – Mapping a Field of Research.” In: McCormick, Lisa, Christoph Müller-Oberhäuser and Tobias Werron, Eds. The Oxford Handbook of Competition in Music. Oxford University Press.

Forthcoming. “From Virtuoso to Icon: Jeffrey Alexander and the Power of Intellectual Performance at the Center for Cultural Sociology.” In: Watts, Galen and Celso M. Villegas, Eds. The Cultural Sociological Imagination — Reading Jeffrey C. Alexander: The Intersection of Culture, Structure and Personality (Volume 1). Palgrave Macmillan.

Forthcoming. “The Competition.” In: Waddell, George and Aaron Williamon, Eds. Sound Judgment: The Science and Practice of Valuing Music Performance. Oxford University Press.

2022. “Introduction.” In: Lisa McCormick (Ed.) The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music: New Directions and New Discoveries. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-16. 10.1007/978-3-031-11420-5_1

2020. “Classical Music Competitions as Complex Performances.” In David Stark (Ed.) The Performance Complex. Oxford University Press, pp. 78-95. 10.1093/oso/9780198861669.003.0004

2015. “Performance Perspectives” in John Shepherd and Kyle Devine (Eds.) The Routledge Reader in the Sociology of Music. London: Routledge, pp. 117-125. 10.4324/9780203736319

2012. “Music Sociology in a New Key” in Jeffrey Alexander, Ronald Jacobs, and Philip Smith (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 722-742. 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195377767.013.27

2006. “Music as Social Performance” in Eyerman, Ron and Lisa McCormick, Eds. Myth, Meaning, and Performance: Toward a New Cultural Sociology of the Arts. Boulder and London: Paradigm Publishers, pp. 121-144.

Eyerman, Ron and Lisa McCormick. 2006. “Introduction” in Eyerman, Ron and Lisa McCormick, Eds. Myth, Meaning, and Performance: Toward a New Cultural Sociology of the Arts. Boulder and London: Paradigm Publishers, pp. 1-11.

2022. “New directions and new discoveries in the sociology of the arts.” [Editor’s introduction to the special issue on the Cultural Sociology of Art and Music.] American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 10(2): 197–205. 10.1057/s41290-022-00161-6

McCormick, Lisa, M. Angélica Thumala Olave, and Nick Prior. 2020. “Editor’s Introduction.” Special Issue on Nathalie Heinich’s Sociology of Values. Cultural Sociology 14(3). 10.1177/1749975520922172

2019. “Moving Beyond Production: Ron Eyerman and the Cultural Sociology of the Arts.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 7(2): 247-259. 10.1057/s41290-019-00072-z

2019. “The Performative Power of Ideas: Jeffrey Alexander as an Iconic Intellectual.” Sociologia & Anthropologia. 9(1): 275-281. 10.1590/2238-38752019v9113

Prior, Nick, Isabelle Darmon and Lisa McCormick. 2017. “Editorial Statement: Tracing, Making and Locating Cultural Sociology.” Cultural Sociology. 11(1):1-7. 10.1177/1749975516687486

‍2018. “Sociology of Culture.” In Ryan, J. Michael, Ed. Core Concepts in Sociology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 55-59.

2018. “Funeral music at the crematorium.” SAGE Research Methods Datasets. 10.4135/9781526439406.

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2023. Review of “The Chopin Games: History of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 1927-2015” edited by Paweł Majewski, translated by Tomasz Zymer. The Chopin Review 6: 130-133. 10.56693/cr.151

2022. “Cultural Sociology’s Rare Diamond: An Interview with Wendy Griswold.” ASA Culture Newsletter. Winter (13 December), pp. 9-13. 

2022. “The Chopin Competition and the Olympic Games: Are the more similarities than differences?” Wszystko co najważniejsze (monthly magazine). No. 37. 17 January 2022 (published in English and Polish)

2021. “Evaluating Musical Performance.” The Chopin Courier. No. 3, 4 October, p. 4-5.

2021. “Musicians without borders.” The Chopin Courier. No. 12, 15 October, p. 5. 

2021. “Music’s Ghosts.” The Chopin Courier. No. 14, 17 October, p. 10.

2020. Review of “Class, Control and Classical Music” by Anna Bull. Sociology. 54(5): 1049-1050. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520943113

2014. “Don’t Play It Again, Sam.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 2(2): 260-265. (Response to Erik Nylander’s “Mastering the Jazz Standard”) https://doi.org/10.1057/ajcs.2014.2

2012. Review of “The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession” by Claudio E. Benzecry. Cultural Sociology 6(3): 387-389. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975512445538a

2010. Review of “Sound Moves: iPod Culture and Urban Experience” by Michael Bull. Canadian Journal of Sociology 35(1): 208-211. https://www.jstor.org/stable/canajsocicahican.35.1.208

2009. Review of “Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image” by Benetta Jules-Rosette, Contemporary Sociology 38(4): 314-316.

2009. “New Fish on the Block.” Culture Review in Contexts Magazine, 8(2): 62-64.