Â鶹AV
William Straw
Regular member
Affiliation
Full Professor,ĚýDepartment of Art History & Communication Studies (Â鶹AV)
Research interests
Urban culture; nightlife; artistic scenes; popular music; social norms and practices; communications; criminality; Canadian film
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Contact information
853, Sherbrooke St. West
Office ARTS W-110
Montreal (Quebec)
Canada H3A 0G5
Phone: (514) 398-7667
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Selected publications
“La prostituée dans la nuit: étude sur la presse à sensation au Québec, 1942-1960.” Tangence no. 130 (2022), pp. 61-83.
“Bundles and mailings: Science fiction fandom and the amateur press association.” DIY, Alternative Cultures & Society, vol. 1, no. 2 (April, 2023)
“Afterword – Moving forward with Live Music Studies,” Ethnomusicology Review, vol. 24 (2023), pp. 181-185.
“Tabloid Porn in Quebec.” Porn Studies, 2022
« Systèmes d’articulation, logiques de changements : communautés et scènes de musiques populaires » (1991) in Gérôme Guibert and Guillaume Heuguet, eds, Penser les musiques populaires, Paris: Philharmonie de Paris Editions, 2022.
“Gathering up the social: Nightlife columns in the African-American press.” Ethnologies, vol. 44, no. 1, 2022.
“Urban Labor and the Cinematic Nocturne.” In Eria Stein, Germaine R. Halegoua and Brendan Kredell, eds. The Routledge Companion to Media and the City. Taylor & Francis, 2022, pp. 100-107.
Straw, Will. "Secret Agents at Expo: The Case of Kommissar X". In Craig Moyes and Steve Palmer, eds., Expo 67 and its World: Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization, Â鶹AV-Queens University Press, 2022.
Straw, Will. "Montreal, Funkytown: Two Decades of Disco History." In Flora Pitrolo, Marko Zubak, eds. Global Dance Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s, Springer, 2022.
Straw, Will. “Re-Thinking the Spaces of Night-time Sociabilty,” in Irene Gammel and Jason Wang, eds. Creative Resilience and COVID-19, Taylor and Francis, 2022, pp. 166-174.
Straw, Will. “Rhythmanalysis and Circulation,” in Geoff Stahl and Mark Perceval, eds., The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space and Place, 2022, pp 21-29.
Straw, Will. “The Pastness of AllĂ´ Police.” In Martha Langford and Johanne Sloan, eds. Photogenic Montreal: Activisms and Archives in a Post-Industrial Society, Â鶹AV Queens University Press, 2021, pp. 199-216.
Straw, Will and Jess Reia, “Nightlife in a Pandemic,” in Pandemic Societies, eds. Jean-Louis Denis, Catherine RĂ©gis, and Daniel Weinstock (Montreal: Â鶹AV-Queen’s University Press, 2021), 9-20.
Straw, Will. “La noche urbana”. In Alejandro Mercado Celis and Edna Hernández González, eds. Noche urbana y economĂa nocturna en AmĂ©rica del Norte. MĂ©xico: CISAN, UNAM, 2021. Translation of “The Urban Night.”
Straw, Will. “Sin City: Montreal’s late, great mid-century journal of vice [on Police Journal].” Canadian Notes & Queries, no. 109 (Spring/summer 2021).
Straw, Will. “Montreal Bohemia and the Mile End Apartment Party Scene.” In Norbert Bachleitner and Juliane Werner, eds. Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction, Brill, 2021, pp. 121-137.
Straw, Will. "Urban labor and the cinematic nocturne ," In B. Kredell, G. Halegoua, & E. Stein, eds., The Routledge Companion to Media and the City . New York: Routledge. Forthcoming, 2021.
Nandor Petrovics (lead), Andreina Seijas (co-lead), Robert Catherall (contrib.), Jess Reia (contrib.) and Will Straw (contrib.). “Nighttime Governance in Times of COVID-19: Capacity-Building for Night Mayors and Other Nighttime Governance Institutions”, Global Nighttime Recovery Plan, Vibe Lab, 2020-2021.
Luc Gwiazdzinski and Will StrawĚý(eds.). "Nuits et montagnes/Nights and mountains",ĚýJournal of Alpine Research/Revue de gĂ©ographie alpine, vol. CVI, no. 1, 2018.
Straw, Will., Anouk BĂ©langer and Annie GĂ©rin (eds.).ĚýFormes urbaines : circulation, stockage et transmission de l’expression culturelle Ă MontrĂ©al, MontrĂ©al, Esse, 2014.
Craciela Martinez-Zalce,ĚýWill StrawĚýand Susana Vargas.ĚýAprehendiendo al delincuente : crimen y medios en AmĂ©rica del norte, Mexico / MontrĂ©al, CISAN-UNAM /ĚýMedia@Â鶹AV, 2011.
Straw, Will., and Alexandra Boutros (eds.).ĚýCirculation and the City: Essays on Urban Culture, MontrĂ©al, Â鶹AV-Queen’s University Press, 2010.
Straw, Will.,Ěýand Erin Hurley.ĚýQuĂ©bec Studies, vol. XXXIII, n° 48, 2009-2010.
Straw, Will.ĚýCyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America, New York, PPP Publications / Andrew Roth Gallery, 2006.
