Ronald Eyerman is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. His recent books include Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1998); Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2001); and Myth, Meaning, and Performance: Toward a New Cultural Sociology of the Arts (Paradigm, 2006).