Paul David Flood
@pauldavidflood.bsky.social
Musicology PhD Candidate @ Eastman/UofR.
Thinking ab globalization, politics, and popular music in contemporary Europe.
Finishing(!) a dissertation on #Eurovision.
🏳️🌈 • Neurodivergent • First gen • he/him
More about me: https://tinyurl.com/sfhjfcbm
Thinking ab globalization, politics, and popular music in contemporary Europe.
Finishing(!) a dissertation on #Eurovision.
🏳️🌈 • Neurodivergent • First gen • he/him
More about me: https://tinyurl.com/sfhjfcbm
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“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...
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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...
My undergrad alma mater, Rider University (or, as I knew it, Westminster Choir College), is officially on probation and will be laying off 25% of its faculty and staff. The Uni may soon lose its accreditation.
If you ask me, this was sadly only a matter of time.
www.nj.com/education/20...
If you ask me, this was sadly only a matter of time.
www.nj.com/education/20...
N.J. university in financial crisis will lay off 40 professors, cut everyone’s pay
The university's president says the school must make "urgent and severe choices" after it was placed on probation by its accreditor.
www.nj.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My undergrad alma mater, Rider University (or, as I knew it, Westminster Choir College), is officially on probation and will be laying off 25% of its faculty and staff. The Uni may soon lose its accreditation.
If you ask me, this was sadly only a matter of time.
www.nj.com/education/20...
If you ask me, this was sadly only a matter of time.
www.nj.com/education/20...
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Happy AMS Week! I'll be presenting some dissertation(/future book project?) material on the Race, Nation, and Identity panel on Friday at 4pm. My talk will be of particular interest to folks thinking between popular music studies, global music history, and Afro-diasporic studies.
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Happy AMS Week! I'll be presenting some dissertation(/future book project?) material on the Race, Nation, and Identity panel on Friday at 4pm. My talk will be of particular interest to folks thinking between popular music studies, global music history, and Afro-diasporic studies.
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I don’t know about you but I sincerely believe that Zohran Mamdani’s BA Major in Africana Studies enabled him to understand our current conjuncture & its demands of justice. Humanities shape minds & in his case for the better.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
November 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I don’t know about you but I sincerely believe that Zohran Mamdani’s BA Major in Africana Studies enabled him to understand our current conjuncture & its demands of justice. Humanities shape minds & in his case for the better.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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This *doesn’t* necessarily mean the song contest - could mean the EBU’s wider Eurovision Network of programming and live link-ups.
Still interesting in a media space where policy debates have usually just been about protecting the future of ‘Canadian content’ when US media are so popular.
Still interesting in a media space where policy debates have usually just been about protecting the future of ‘Canadian content’ when US media are so popular.
🇨🇦 The Canadian government, in its 2025 budget released today, has stated it is “working with CBC/Radio Canada to explore participation in #Eurovision.”
CBC/Radio Canada is an associate EBU member and would need an invitation from the EBU to participate.
CBC/Radio Canada is an associate EBU member and would need an invitation from the EBU to participate.
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
This *doesn’t* necessarily mean the song contest - could mean the EBU’s wider Eurovision Network of programming and live link-ups.
Still interesting in a media space where policy debates have usually just been about protecting the future of ‘Canadian content’ when US media are so popular.
Still interesting in a media space where policy debates have usually just been about protecting the future of ‘Canadian content’ when US media are so popular.
Gaymer posting hours: I finished Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter last night and Wowowowow it was great. Need the 2nd Chapter immediately. Can’t believe I’m just supposed to drop it and start playing the new Pokemon like my whole world wasn’t just rocked by a new (to me) JRPG (which happens often tbf)
November 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Gaymer posting hours: I finished Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter last night and Wowowowow it was great. Need the 2nd Chapter immediately. Can’t believe I’m just supposed to drop it and start playing the new Pokemon like my whole world wasn’t just rocked by a new (to me) JRPG (which happens often tbf)
Happy AMS Week! I'll be presenting some dissertation(/future book project?) material on the Race, Nation, and Identity panel on Friday at 4pm. My talk will be of particular interest to folks thinking between popular music studies, global music history, and Afro-diasporic studies.
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Happy AMS Week! I'll be presenting some dissertation(/future book project?) material on the Race, Nation, and Identity panel on Friday at 4pm. My talk will be of particular interest to folks thinking between popular music studies, global music history, and Afro-diasporic studies.
This is my third time on campus this semester and I think that’s beautiful
October 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is my third time on campus this semester and I think that’s beautiful
Delighted to share that my paper at last year's virtual SEM “Crying at the EuroClub: Rainbow Europe, Queer Diasporas, and the Politics of Escapism at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest” was named the Honorable Mention for SEM's Gender and Sexuality Studies Section's Conference Presentation Prize!
October 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Delighted to share that my paper at last year's virtual SEM “Crying at the EuroClub: Rainbow Europe, Queer Diasporas, and the Politics of Escapism at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest” was named the Honorable Mention for SEM's Gender and Sexuality Studies Section's Conference Presentation Prize!
That’s my advisor!!
Congratulations to Darren Mueller, whose book "At the Vanguard of Vinyl" has been named the winner of the 2025 Award for Excellence in Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz, given by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. www.dukeupress.edu/at-the-vangu...
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
That’s my advisor!!
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Remember when North Macedonia tried to send the late great Romani singer Esma Redžepova to Eurovision with a song that glorified the ruling nationalist party’s controversial urban development project?
If not (or even if you do for some reason), come hear my paper at SEM on Friday morning!
If not (or even if you do for some reason), come hear my paper at SEM on Friday morning!
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Remember when North Macedonia tried to send the late great Romani singer Esma Redžepova to Eurovision with a song that glorified the ruling nationalist party’s controversial urban development project?
If not (or even if you do for some reason), come hear my paper at SEM on Friday morning!
If not (or even if you do for some reason), come hear my paper at SEM on Friday morning!
Got to hang out with @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social in Atlanta!
October 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Got to hang out with @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social in Atlanta!
Remember when North Macedonia tried to send the late great Romani singer Esma Redžepova to Eurovision with a song that glorified the ruling nationalist party’s controversial urban development project?
If not (or even if you do for some reason), come hear my paper at SEM on Friday morning!
If not (or even if you do for some reason), come hear my paper at SEM on Friday morning!
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Remember when North Macedonia tried to send the late great Romani singer Esma Redžepova to Eurovision with a song that glorified the ruling nationalist party’s controversial urban development project?
If not (or even if you do for some reason), come hear my paper at SEM on Friday morning!
If not (or even if you do for some reason), come hear my paper at SEM on Friday morning!
I have a dissertation defense date. Things are really happening!
October 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I have a dissertation defense date. Things are really happening!
Exciting news: I’m joining the Journal of Popular Music Studies editorial team as the Journal’s new Web Editor.
The Journal's priorities, outlined in the Editors' Introduction below, completely align with my vision for the future of popular music studies. Stay tuned for updates on JPMS socials!
The Journal's priorities, outlined in the Editors' Introduction below, completely align with my vision for the future of popular music studies. Stay tuned for updates on JPMS socials!
"Journal of Popular Music Studies" co-editors @burrata.bsky.social & Alisha Lola Jones's reflect on their 1st year editing "JPMS" in the Sept issue online now. We pub JPMS in partnership with @iaspm-us.bsky.social. online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3...
Volume 37 Issue 3 | Journal of Popular Music Studies | University of California Press
online.ucpress.edu
October 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Exciting news: I’m joining the Journal of Popular Music Studies editorial team as the Journal’s new Web Editor.
The Journal's priorities, outlined in the Editors' Introduction below, completely align with my vision for the future of popular music studies. Stay tuned for updates on JPMS socials!
The Journal's priorities, outlined in the Editors' Introduction below, completely align with my vision for the future of popular music studies. Stay tuned for updates on JPMS socials!
Spent my morning with some excellent students at Roberts Wesleyan University! I gave a guest lecture on one of my diss chapters, and the students were eager to critique notions of representation, sameness, and "world music." Thanks to my brilliant colleague Dr. Eleanor Price for the invite.
October 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Spent my morning with some excellent students at Roberts Wesleyan University! I gave a guest lecture on one of my diss chapters, and the students were eager to critique notions of representation, sameness, and "world music." Thanks to my brilliant colleague Dr. Eleanor Price for the invite.
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
September 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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...
I finished writing the last remaining chapter of my dissertation this afternoon 🥲
September 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I finished writing the last remaining chapter of my dissertation this afternoon 🥲
Roc and Buf folks: Come celebrate Palestrina’s 500th with Voices this weekend AND at NY ACDA next month! Also feat. Bach, Brahms, Bruckner, Pearsall, Poulenc, and Witt.
Friday Sep. 26 at Holy Trinity in Buffalo, 7pm.
Sunday Sep. 28 at Incarnate Word in Rochester, 4pm.
Friday Oct. 17 at NY ACDA.
Friday Sep. 26 at Holy Trinity in Buffalo, 7pm.
Sunday Sep. 28 at Incarnate Word in Rochester, 4pm.
Friday Oct. 17 at NY ACDA.
September 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Roc and Buf folks: Come celebrate Palestrina’s 500th with Voices this weekend AND at NY ACDA next month! Also feat. Bach, Brahms, Bruckner, Pearsall, Poulenc, and Witt.
Friday Sep. 26 at Holy Trinity in Buffalo, 7pm.
Sunday Sep. 28 at Incarnate Word in Rochester, 4pm.
Friday Oct. 17 at NY ACDA.
Friday Sep. 26 at Holy Trinity in Buffalo, 7pm.
Sunday Sep. 28 at Incarnate Word in Rochester, 4pm.
Friday Oct. 17 at NY ACDA.
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Another great way to mark the Eurovision new year is to start writing an abstract for a fabulous conference to be held in Paris next year.
Proposal submission deadline: 15 October 2025
See website for more details: encore-network.org
#Eurovision #cfp #AcademicSky
Proposal submission deadline: 15 October 2025
See website for more details: encore-network.org
#Eurovision #cfp #AcademicSky
ESC Conference Paris 2026
encore-network.org
September 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Another great way to mark the Eurovision new year is to start writing an abstract for a fabulous conference to be held in Paris next year.
Proposal submission deadline: 15 October 2025
See website for more details: encore-network.org
#Eurovision #cfp #AcademicSky
Proposal submission deadline: 15 October 2025
See website for more details: encore-network.org
#Eurovision #cfp #AcademicSky
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📢 Call for Proposals
CES is pleased to invite submissions for its 32nd International Conference of Europeanists, to be held in Dublin, June 16–18, 2025.
For more information about the Conference Theme and how to apply visit: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conferences/...
CES is pleased to invite submissions for its 32nd International Conference of Europeanists, to be held in Dublin, June 16–18, 2025.
For more information about the Conference Theme and how to apply visit: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conferences/...
August 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
📢 Call for Proposals
CES is pleased to invite submissions for its 32nd International Conference of Europeanists, to be held in Dublin, June 16–18, 2025.
For more information about the Conference Theme and how to apply visit: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conferences/...
CES is pleased to invite submissions for its 32nd International Conference of Europeanists, to be held in Dublin, June 16–18, 2025.
For more information about the Conference Theme and how to apply visit: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/conferences/...
Music studies besties! Celebrating our dear friend @queertrumpeter.bsky.social’s wedding this evening 🥹🥲💖 @alejandrinammedina.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Music studies besties! Celebrating our dear friend @queertrumpeter.bsky.social’s wedding this evening 🥹🥲💖 @alejandrinammedina.bsky.social
Googling yourself is wild because apparently you’ll find photos of yourself that you didn’t even know existed! Here’s me chairing a panel at IASPM-US/PopCon 2025 in LA this past March. Thank god my thinking/listening face lowkey serves.
(📸 Joe Mabel)
(📸 Joe Mabel)
August 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Googling yourself is wild because apparently you’ll find photos of yourself that you didn’t even know existed! Here’s me chairing a panel at IASPM-US/PopCon 2025 in LA this past March. Thank god my thinking/listening face lowkey serves.
(📸 Joe Mabel)
(📸 Joe Mabel)
Proofs are in! Catch my article on Afro-Swedishness in/and Eurovision in next month’s issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies.
If you’re prepping a syllabus on popular music, European culture and politics, Black transnationalisms, or something related, please consider assigning this!
If you’re prepping a syllabus on popular music, European culture and politics, Black transnationalisms, or something related, please consider assigning this!
August 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Proofs are in! Catch my article on Afro-Swedishness in/and Eurovision in next month’s issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies.
If you’re prepping a syllabus on popular music, European culture and politics, Black transnationalisms, or something related, please consider assigning this!
If you’re prepping a syllabus on popular music, European culture and politics, Black transnationalisms, or something related, please consider assigning this!