Hallberg Presents Paper and More

Christy Hallberg presented her paper “It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll, But Not Everybody Likes It: Contextualizing Violence and Music in Jeff Jackson’s Destroy All Monsters” at the Popular Culture Association’s 2021 Virtual Conference. The paper explores the link between violence and music and the deification of dead artists. How far should one go to preserve the authenticity of art? Does selling out warrant execution of one sort or another? Is art worth killing for—figuratively and, in the case of Jackson’s novel, literally?

Hallberg’s bio is included in Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2021, which was just released last week. Per Amazon’s blurb, “In the second annual Who’s Who of Emerging Writers compiled and published by Sweetycat Press, the bios of 128 writers worldwide are included, along with seven essays by professionals in the writing field that should be of interest to every writer at all stages in their careers as writers.

Hallberg was also recently interviewed for HocTok arts magazine about her forthcoming debut novel from the University of West Alabama/Livingston Press, Searching for Jimmy Page.

Go English!