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Paul David Flood
@pauldavidflood.bsky.social
Musicology PhD Candidate @ Eastman/UofR.
European popular music and politics, global musicology, queer/trans studies.
About to defend a dissertation on #Eurovision.
🏳️‍🌈 • Neurodivergent • First gen • he/him
More about me: https://tinyurl.com/sfhjfcbm
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My article “’Everybody Wanna Move Like Us!’: Performing Afro-Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest” has just been published in the September 2025 issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies! online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
“Everybody Wanna Move Like Us!”Performing Afro-Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
From 2019 through 2021, the Swedish public elected three consecutive Afro-Swedish artists with gospel songs to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest: John Lundvik with his song “Too Late For...
online.ucpress.edu
Needed to read this today as I continue my pre-defense revisions.
January 22, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine

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January 22, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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Bluesky is owned by musicology now, I don’t make the rules
January 20, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Junior scholars and late-stage graduate students in popular music studies! The AMS Popular Music Study Group is now accepting applications for our biannual Junior Scholar Symposium in Cleveland this summer! Read our full call here and please share widely.

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2026 Junior Scholar Symposium – Call for Applications
2026 Junior Scholar Symposium – Call for Applications 2026 Junior Scholar SymposiumCase Western Reserve UniversityJune 16-18, 2026Application Deadline: February 16, 2026 The Popular Music Stu…
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January 20, 2026 at 4:31 PM
I've begun to use my social media—Bsky, Insta, FB—on my laptop more so than my phone, to the point where I'm considering deleting at least the latter two apps from my phone. Wondering if this is a sign of A. good mental health and boundaries; B. my approaching 30s; or C. all of the above.
January 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Conchita Wurst steps back from #Eurovision, the year 🇦🇹 is hosting again:

‘My connection to the ESC remains - as part of my history, not as the place for my next steps.’

The singer who dedicated her 2014 win to ‘everyone who believes in a future of peace and freedom’ has left the contest behind.
January 13, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Meanwhile, at the Rochester NY #DragRace viewing party
January 10, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Anna Delvey #DragRace guest judge when
January 10, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Next week’s #DragRace maxi challenge is “QPop” girl groups and idk what that means in Drag Race terms but I really hope they’re referring to real life QPop—Qazaq/Kazakh Pop 🇰🇿

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iONE! — DOUBLE BUBBLE TEA • Official DEBUT M/V
YouTube video by iONE!
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January 3, 2026 at 3:03 PM
*screams in my JPMS article on Afro-Swedishness and the surveillance of (sonic) Blackness in Europe*

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December 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Word incoming #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We brought Stewie (our 16yo beauty) with us to my partner’s family’s house for the holiday. She has a whole new house to explore but she just wants to loaf on the carpet floor.
December 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Cloudbusting
Wuthering Heights
Wow
This Woman’s Work
Running Up That Hill
The Big Sky

Sat In Your Lap
Babooshka
Hounds of Love
Suspended in Gaffa
ok now everyone do top ten kate bush songs....
December 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Finished Expedition 33 a few days ago and Maelle’s ending is for ppl who think that inanimate objects have feelings (it’s me I’m ppl)
December 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Now under contract from @manchesterup.bsky.social: PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS on #Eurovision and its narratives of queer, national, European belonging in post-Cold-War Europe bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...

The history and memory behind where we now are.
‘Performing Queer Nations: the Eurovision Song Contest Since 1990’ is coming in 2027
In 1990, Toto Cutugno won the Eurovision Song Contest celebrating a future Europe integrated under the same sky, stars and ideals from the stage of a Zagreb that hoped for democracy. In 1997, Icela…
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December 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“1990–2024” has been doing some beautiful work for me over the past few days
Just submitted the fair copy of my dissertation!

“‘United By Music’: Europeanism, Migration, and Belonging through the Eurovision Song Contest, 1990–2024.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Just submitted the fair copy of my dissertation!

“‘United By Music’: Europeanism, Migration, and Belonging through the Eurovision Song Contest, 1990–2024.”
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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🇳🇱 TV general director: ‘Culture unites, but not at any price.’

🇪🇸, 🇮🇪, 🇸🇮 also out of #Eurovision 2026, as they said before last delegations’ meeting (🇸🇮 taking that stand first).

🇧🇪, 🇮🇸 to decide in coming days.
🇳🇱 BREAKING: Netherlands withdraws from #Eurovision 2026, following the results of the EBU General Assembly today.
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Submitting my Ph.D. dissertation on #Eurovision to my committee tomorrow morning. Surely nothing major will happen between now and then...right?
December 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Today is International Day of People with Disability so again I beg that you use Alt Text for all your photos, videos, and GIFs.

Not only does it make social media more accessible for folks who use screen readers, it also provides added context to your posts.

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December 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Huge news for Albanian, Canadian, and Albanian-Canadian pop girlies in my top songs of 2025.
December 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My partner and I just watched Pan-Arcticvision (Eurovision for the circumpolar Arctic) and 1. wow I can't wait to teach this and 2. The victorious Sakha Republic's representative Saina's 1998 hit "Hello, Yakutsk" is about to go platinum in our apartment I fear www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rj7...
Saina Hello Yakutsk
YouTube video by illusionrecords1
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December 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Get into it #ESC250
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Subbed for Honey Meconi’s “Exploring Classical Music” class at the UofR this morning, teaching Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Stellar engagement from the students! Very grateful for so many opportunities to keep my teaching chops up while I’m on fellowship.
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I got a little bit too into the Anna Nicole Smith opera in undergrad
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM