Noriko Manabe
@nmanabe.bsky.social
Professor, music theory, ethnomusicology, Japan studies. Research in music & social movements, popular music, music & language. Author, Protest Music after Fukushima; Editor, Oxford Handbook of Protest Music, 33-1/3 Japan. Views my own. linktr.ee/nmanabe
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Noriko Manabe
@nmanabe.bsky.social
· Jun 27
Intertextuality in Protest Music: A Typology
AbstractMusic in social movements regularly recalls preexisting music, text, and symbols, which can capture attention, resonate with historical memory, enh
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My chapter, “Intertextuality in Protest Music: A Typology” in The Oxford Handbook of Protest Music, edited by Eric Drott and me, has been published on Oxford Handbooks Online. doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Links to videos and audio can be found here: www.norikomanabe.com/publications...
Links to videos and audio can be found here: www.norikomanabe.com/publications...
My back-of-the-hand calculations regarding #AMS spending, contributions, and investment funds. Based on IRS Form 990; I do not claim accuracy of calculations or interpretation. www.facebook.com/share/p/17U6...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My back-of-the-hand calculations regarding #AMS spending, contributions, and investment funds. Based on IRS Form 990; I do not claim accuracy of calculations or interpretation. www.facebook.com/share/p/17U6...
On #AMS, the Form 990 shows that salaries at AMS nearly tripled from $207,191.21 in the year ending June 2020 to $572,779 in the year ending June 2024. I heard that salaries were going up to $700,000. ED's compensation, per the Form 990, rose 56% to $185,166. www.facebook.com/share/p/17UX...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
On #AMS, the Form 990 shows that salaries at AMS nearly tripled from $207,191.21 in the year ending June 2020 to $572,779 in the year ending June 2024. I heard that salaries were going up to $700,000. ED's compensation, per the Form 990, rose 56% to $185,166. www.facebook.com/share/p/17UX...
For those of you concerned about #AMS, I'd encourage you to read the bylaws. There are 2 ways to remove an ED: 1) a vote by majority of the Board (article V-D) and 2) a vote by the entire Society, as proposed by 10% of the Society membership (VI-G). www.amsmusicology.org/wp-content/u...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
For those of you concerned about #AMS, I'd encourage you to read the bylaws. There are 2 ways to remove an ED: 1) a vote by majority of the Board (article V-D) and 2) a vote by the entire Society, as proposed by 10% of the Society membership (VI-G). www.amsmusicology.org/wp-content/u...
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for my colleagues & friends in the American Musicological Society, a small (but big) update about what has transpired at this year’s meeting www.facebook.com/share/p/17Gz...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
for my colleagues & friends in the American Musicological Society, a small (but big) update about what has transpired at this year’s meeting www.facebook.com/share/p/17Gz...
Good cause for optimism www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Steve Kornacki: Two warnings for Republicans in the New Jersey governor results
Republican Jack Ciattarelli couldn’t hold onto Trump’s gains in heavily Hispanic and Asian American areas or his own past gains in wealthy suburbs.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Good cause for optimism www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
So much for Mitch Daniels' clout. I thought news reports were saying that there weren't the votes to pass redistricting in Indiana. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
So much for Mitch Daniels' clout. I thought news reports were saying that there weren't the votes to pass redistricting in Indiana. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Let “Ghostbusters” become the theme song.
Also, why am I reading about this in a British paper rather than a US one?
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Also, why am I reading about this in a British paper rather than a US one?
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.the-independent.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Let “Ghostbusters” become the theme song.
Also, why am I reading about this in a British paper rather than a US one?
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Also, why am I reading about this in a British paper rather than a US one?
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Run, don't walk, to see Raoul Peck's film, "Orwell: 2+2=5." Composed of Orwell's writing read by an actor with clips from historical and contemporary happenings, it demonstrates how clearly he describes the present day. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/m...
October 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Run, don't walk, to see Raoul Peck's film, "Orwell: 2+2=5." Composed of Orwell's writing read by an actor with clips from historical and contemporary happenings, it demonstrates how clearly he describes the present day. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/m...
That Jeopardy skit on SNL with Bad Bunny was a metacommentary on immigrant/minority life: you have the capabilities, but you don’t get credit due to some random rule you don’t fully understand, and someone else seizes on your solutions and profits from them. Also, the condescension.
October 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
That Jeopardy skit on SNL with Bad Bunny was a metacommentary on immigrant/minority life: you have the capabilities, but you don’t get credit due to some random rule you don’t fully understand, and someone else seizes on your solutions and profits from them. Also, the condescension.
Somehow, the Spanish newspaper El País had the news of the Trump $1 coin (to commemorate the US's 250th anniversary of independence) posted before any of the major US news outlets.
elpais.com/economia/202...
elpais.com/economia/202...
El Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos planea acuñar una moneda con la efigie de Trump
La pieza conmemorará el 250 aniversario de la independencia estadounidense
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October 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Somehow, the Spanish newspaper El País had the news of the Trump $1 coin (to commemorate the US's 250th anniversary of independence) posted before any of the major US news outlets.
elpais.com/economia/202...
elpais.com/economia/202...
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🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
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Like clockwork: Democrats worked last year to register more US citizens who live overseas, and now Republicans are mounting various efforts to restrict the right to vote of such US citizens. www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...
A GOP push to restrict voting by overseas U.S. citizens continues before 2026 midterms
Republican officials are pushing for more voting restrictions on U.S. citizens who were born abroad and have never lived in the country, after unsuccessfully challenging their ballots in 2024.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Like clockwork: Democrats worked last year to register more US citizens who live overseas, and now Republicans are mounting various efforts to restrict the right to vote of such US citizens. www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...
September 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Some guy is marching around town karaoke whistling to Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” while listening to the track on headphones. Really makes you notice how repetitive that song is.
September 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Some guy is marching around town karaoke whistling to Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” while listening to the track on headphones. Really makes you notice how repetitive that song is.
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FBI has been steadily diverting resources away from domestic terrorism investigations, decimating specialized units & discontinuing tools used to track extremism. the admin also gutted millions in federal terrorism-prevention grants. it's effectively abandoned the fight against homegrown violence.
“FBI agents reassigned to round up immigrants have had to walk away from investigations into violent predators who target and exploit children online, MSNBC has learned.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
President Trump's deportations are diverting FBI agents off child predator cases
Officials warn that President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is leaving domestic terrorists, including online extremists who prey on children, unpoliced.
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September 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
FBI has been steadily diverting resources away from domestic terrorism investigations, decimating specialized units & discontinuing tools used to track extremism. the admin also gutted millions in federal terrorism-prevention grants. it's effectively abandoned the fight against homegrown violence.
Looks like they messed with the wrong people www.bbc.com/news/article...
South Korea to probe potential human rights abuses in US Hyundai raid - BBC News
More than 300 South Korean workers returned home on Friday after being held for a week in the US following the raid.
www.bbc.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Looks like they messed with the wrong people www.bbc.com/news/article...
Unsettling—the admin fired 100 immigration judges and are replacing them with temporary military judges who are not required to have any experience in immigration. Why hasn’t this been on mainstream news? www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-a...
Trump Administration Appoints Hundreds of Unqualified Military Lawyers to Serve as Immigration Judges - American Immigration Council
The Department of Defense will send up to 600 military lawyers to serve as immigration judges, diverting resources toward mass deportation.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
September 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Unsettling—the admin fired 100 immigration judges and are replacing them with temporary military judges who are not required to have any experience in immigration. Why hasn’t this been on mainstream news? www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-a...
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When performing tunes by Sly Stone, I think it may be a good idea to have a bass player who can play slap bass.
August 31, 2025 at 1:48 AM
When performing tunes by Sly Stone, I think it may be a good idea to have a bass player who can play slap bass.
I was about to post complaining that the coffee shop has on a playlist of show tunes in 70s disco arrangements, but then I realized it was Grace Jones.
August 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I was about to post complaining that the coffee shop has on a playlist of show tunes in 70s disco arrangements, but then I realized it was Grace Jones.
Here’s the link to file a claim www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
August 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Here’s the link to file a claim www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
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Friends, please notice what a little redistricting/ voter suppression can do to election results.
In 2008, #Indiana went for Obama. (And scared the heck out of Republicans!)
August 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Friends, please notice what a little redistricting/ voter suppression can do to election results.
I just paid $15.87 for two *small* coffees at O’Hare Starbucks. These prices are out of control. I don’t think I’d pay that in the Tokyo Ginza, and you’re really paying for the upscale ambience there. #inflation
August 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I just paid $15.87 for two *small* coffees at O’Hare Starbucks. These prices are out of control. I don’t think I’d pay that in the Tokyo Ginza, and you’re really paying for the upscale ambience there. #inflation