Babson College is hiring a tenure-track Ethnomusicology professor. The college is just down the road from where I work, and while I don't work there, I can answer questions about the town, the student body, and the Babson-Olin-Wellesley consortium.

hello, I am on here now and by way of introduction I am a queer non-binary trans person and PhD student exploring how musical performance in drag shows and ballroom is trans-coded and how experience of this affects both individual and collective transness 🏳️‍⚧️

Does your research address the links between popular music + mental health in some way? If yes, submit a proposal to the "Depression in Popular Music" interdisciplinary conference at @sorbonne-universite.fr iPLesp from Jun 26-27! Proposals due Feb 15. See CfP here:
depressioninpopconference2025.com

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2000-2009 was the golden era for New Year’s Eve glasses shaped like the numbers. We didn’t know how good we had it.

If you are a University who requires referees from other universities to find an 'institutional stamp', I emplore you to PLEASE update the instructions you wrote for PhD applicants in 1992.

did you or anyone you know work for producer Robert Stigwood in the mid-late 70s or keep papers and files from that time?

If so, I’d love to chat with you sometime.

Santa brought my kid a Godzilla and it’s already getting along great with the Barbies.

Junior Scholars and PhD students:

If you have similar research interests to me, reach out! I'm happy to chat, give feedback or work together if you think I can help

Book giveaway! I have ended up with extra copies of all of these. Just comment and lmk why you‘d want/need them, for the academic books preference is given to people doing research on related topics, particularly (grad) students. I will close the thread Dec 31 and ship in the new year!

New Cambridge Element Original Pirate Material by me is now free to read for 4 weeks!
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#cambridgeelements #music

My book, Audiovisual Alterity, is due to be published this week in the US (and sometime soon after that in the UK). If you're interested, you can order a copy from global.oup.com/academic at a 30% discount using the code AUFLY30!

If anyone at SMT wanted to share book discount codes with me I wouldn’t be sad… 🤫👀

As there seem to be (lots of) new people joining BlueSky today, resharing my popular music writers Starter Pack.

Enjoy and happy following …

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