Karen Halnon Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Sociology, College of Liberal Arts

Expertise Summary

Popular culture and the fads and fashions of shock, spectacle, and transgression; also the portrayal and commodification of lower classes in pop culture

Bio

Articles: Poor Chic; White Trash Chic; Fake Bullet Holes and Ghettopoly; Inside Shock Music Carnival;
Alienation Incorporated: 'F---the Mainstream Music' in the Mainstream; Muscles, Motorcycles, and Tattoos: Gentrification in a New Frontier; Heavy Metal Carnival and Disalienation: The Politics of Grotesque Realism

Book Chapters: Shock Music, Alienation, and Authenticity; Globalization and the Grotesque; The Power of 420

Contact Information

  Campus: Penn State Abington

  Email: kbh4@psu.edu

  Phone: 215-881-7542

  Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/kbh4/

Articles from live.psu.edu

  Professor says 'real obscenity' of shock music isn't in the lyrics