Tom Hodgson
@thomashodgson.org
Ethnomusicologist at UCLA | Musician in Stornoway
New book: Journeys of Love: Kashmiris, Music, and the Poetics of Migration (Chicago) - https://linktr.ee/thomashodgson
New book: Journeys of Love: Kashmiris, Music, and the Poetics of Migration (Chicago) - https://linktr.ee/thomashodgson
Music and Data has now launched! It's been a long time in the works and if you'd like to know more, check out this Q&A I did with the inimitable Prof. Stacy Huang... We're "MaD" for it.
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UC Press Launches New Journal "Music and Data": Meet the Editors
Learn more about UC Press's new journal, "Music and Data," from the journal's editors.
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September 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Music and Data has now launched! It's been a long time in the works and if you'd like to know more, check out this Q&A I did with the inimitable Prof. Stacy Huang... We're "MaD" for it.
www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/u...
www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/u...
Reposted by Tom Hodgson
Music historians WATCH THIS SPACE:
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will shortly advertise a permanent opera/music theatre AND/OR 19th century position.
Immediate start preferred (no later than Jan 26), interviews likely Sept/early Oct.
Will update with details as soon as the ad is published.
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will shortly advertise a permanent opera/music theatre AND/OR 19th century position.
Immediate start preferred (no later than Jan 26), interviews likely Sept/early Oct.
Will update with details as soon as the ad is published.
July 30, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Music historians WATCH THIS SPACE:
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will shortly advertise a permanent opera/music theatre AND/OR 19th century position.
Immediate start preferred (no later than Jan 26), interviews likely Sept/early Oct.
Will update with details as soon as the ad is published.
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will shortly advertise a permanent opera/music theatre AND/OR 19th century position.
Immediate start preferred (no later than Jan 26), interviews likely Sept/early Oct.
Will update with details as soon as the ad is published.
Well that was unexpected...
July 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Well that was unexpected...
I super excited to be launching this new journal - Music and Data - with the peerless Stacy Huang. Website to launch v soon!
🎊 New user spotlight:
We welcome Music and Data, published by @ucpress.bsky.social, to the Scholastica community (now using our peer review system)! The journal is led by EICs @thomashodgson.org and Rujing Stacy Huang.
Learn more: buff.ly/UmPYRK3
We welcome Music and Data, published by @ucpress.bsky.social, to the Scholastica community (now using our peer review system)! The journal is led by EICs @thomashodgson.org and Rujing Stacy Huang.
Learn more: buff.ly/UmPYRK3
July 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I super excited to be launching this new journal - Music and Data - with the peerless Stacy Huang. Website to launch v soon!
My book is officially out today and I found out I got tenure 🎈
Can't wait to talk about it at the Bradford Literature Festival this Saturday! @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social
Get your copy here!
US: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
UK: www.waterstones.com/book/journey...
Can't wait to talk about it at the Bradford Literature Festival this Saturday! @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social
Get your copy here!
US: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
UK: www.waterstones.com/book/journey...
Journeys of Love
An empathetic and eye-opening portrait of Muslim migrants in England that debunks many misperceptions about their music and poetry. In Journeys of Love, ethnomusicologist Thomas Hodgson offers a sen...
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June 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
My book is officially out today and I found out I got tenure 🎈
Can't wait to talk about it at the Bradford Literature Festival this Saturday! @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social
Get your copy here!
US: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
UK: www.waterstones.com/book/journey...
Can't wait to talk about it at the Bradford Literature Festival this Saturday! @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social
Get your copy here!
US: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
UK: www.waterstones.com/book/journey...
I'm thrilled to say I will be speaking at the Bradford Literature Festival 2025 about my new book, Journeys of Love.
It'll be a real homecoming both for me an the book, which explores music and poetry between Bradford and Pakistan.
29th June, 1-2pm, City Park
@bradfordlitfest.bsky.social
It'll be a real homecoming both for me an the book, which explores music and poetry between Bradford and Pakistan.
29th June, 1-2pm, City Park
@bradfordlitfest.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I'm thrilled to say I will be speaking at the Bradford Literature Festival 2025 about my new book, Journeys of Love.
It'll be a real homecoming both for me an the book, which explores music and poetry between Bradford and Pakistan.
29th June, 1-2pm, City Park
@bradfordlitfest.bsky.social
It'll be a real homecoming both for me an the book, which explores music and poetry between Bradford and Pakistan.
29th June, 1-2pm, City Park
@bradfordlitfest.bsky.social
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Tom Hodgson’s beautiful new book on Mirpuris and music between Bradford and Kashmir is a must read ❤️
Gosh, what a lovely early review of my book by the peerless @katherineschof8.bsky.social 🙏
(link in my bio!)
(link in my bio!)
April 23, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Tom Hodgson’s beautiful new book on Mirpuris and music between Bradford and Kashmir is a must read ❤️
Gosh, what a lovely early review of my book by the peerless @katherineschof8.bsky.social 🙏
(link in my bio!)
(link in my bio!)
April 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Gosh, what a lovely early review of my book by the peerless @katherineschof8.bsky.social 🙏
(link in my bio!)
(link in my bio!)
I'm no stock trader, but if I were then I would simply buy now and then sell when the stocks go up.
April 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I'm no stock trader, but if I were then I would simply buy now and then sell when the stocks go up.
Here's a short review I wrote of @nickseaver.website's wonderful Computing Taste, for Music & Letters
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Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation. By Nick Seaver
Before getting into this review, I would like us to do a little thought experiment. Picture someone in your mind’s eye. It can be someone you know well, or
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March 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Here's a short review I wrote of @nickseaver.website's wonderful Computing Taste, for Music & Letters
academic.oup.com/ml/advance-a...
academic.oup.com/ml/advance-a...
Reposted by Tom Hodgson
#printpromptmonday and a bit of #foliage from my latest Lino cut. I challenged myself to do one colour, and had to really think about what to carve away and what to leave. Harder I found than using colour to define areas.
#linoprint #whimsicalart
#linoprint #whimsicalart
March 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
#printpromptmonday and a bit of #foliage from my latest Lino cut. I challenged myself to do one colour, and had to really think about what to carve away and what to leave. Harder I found than using colour to define areas.
#linoprint #whimsicalart
#linoprint #whimsicalart
New job alert! Do you like music? How about data? Imagine comining the two and getting paid for it in a place where the sun always shines.
Come join me at UCLA: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10207
I'm on the committee - hit me up if you have any questions.
Come join me at UCLA: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10207
I'm on the committee - hit me up if you have any questions.
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Music and Critical Data Studies
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu
March 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
New job alert! Do you like music? How about data? Imagine comining the two and getting paid for it in a place where the sun always shines.
Come join me at UCLA: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10207
I'm on the committee - hit me up if you have any questions.
Come join me at UCLA: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10207
I'm on the committee - hit me up if you have any questions.
What a handsome chap.
February 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
What a handsome chap.
With all the newly arrived music scholars, now seems a good time to re-advertise my new book.
If you're interested in migration, Pakistan, multiculturalism, music, 19thC Sufism, contemporary poetry, rap, Britain's bizarre views on integration, and curry, then this is the book for you.
If you're interested in migration, Pakistan, multiculturalism, music, 19thC Sufism, contemporary poetry, rap, Britain's bizarre views on integration, and curry, then this is the book for you.
My very first book - on Kashmiri migration, music and poetry - is now available to pre-order!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Journeys of Love
An empathetic and eye-opening portrait of Muslim migrants in England that debunks many misperceptions about their music and poetry. In Journeys of Love, ethnomusicologist Thomas Hodgson rejects the ...
press.uchicago.edu
November 12, 2024 at 8:14 PM
With all the newly arrived music scholars, now seems a good time to re-advertise my new book.
If you're interested in migration, Pakistan, multiculturalism, music, 19thC Sufism, contemporary poetry, rap, Britain's bizarre views on integration, and curry, then this is the book for you.
If you're interested in migration, Pakistan, multiculturalism, music, 19thC Sufism, contemporary poetry, rap, Britain's bizarre views on integration, and curry, then this is the book for you.
My very first book - on Kashmiri migration, music and poetry - is now available to pre-order!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Journeys of Love
An empathetic and eye-opening portrait of Muslim migrants in England that debunks many misperceptions about their music and poetry. In Journeys of Love, ethnomusicologist Thomas Hodgson rejects the ...
press.uchicago.edu
October 16, 2024 at 2:47 AM
My very first book - on Kashmiri migration, music and poetry - is now available to pre-order!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Reposted by Tom Hodgson
Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.
I remember people saying things like “you can’t fix an empty page” as an explanation for why writing a shitty first draft is better than no writing, but it’s not because it’s easier to edit than draft.
It’s because the act of drafting tells you about the shape of the story.
It’s because the act of drafting tells you about the shape of the story.
This is not just bots. We are seeing more and more submissions by writers with publication records who are almost certainly using AI to create initial drafts and then are trying and failing to edit things into shape.
October 13, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.
New Stornoway album out today 🥳🥳🥳
Included in the digital download is a remix I produced with Ed Nesbit. Please do check it out!
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Included in the digital download is a remix I produced with Ed Nesbit. Please do check it out!
www.musicglue.com/stornoway/pr...
October 6, 2023 at 3:54 PM
New Stornoway album out today 🥳🥳🥳
Included in the digital download is a remix I produced with Ed Nesbit. Please do check it out!
www.musicglue.com/stornoway/pr...
Included in the digital download is a remix I produced with Ed Nesbit. Please do check it out!
www.musicglue.com/stornoway/pr...
And so the new term rears into view...
September 25, 2023 at 5:13 PM
And so the new term rears into view...
Look at this fine friend I met on the street in Carpinteria. Magestical.
September 21, 2023 at 12:56 AM
Look at this fine friend I met on the street in Carpinteria. Magestical.
Feeder installed and new friends have arrived 😊☺️😊
September 13, 2023 at 12:19 AM
Feeder installed and new friends have arrived 😊☺️😊
Some idle thoughts of mine on music AI, where we are, and where we're going, with UCLA Radio.
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Interview with Thomas Hodgson- Music and A.I.
Interview with Professor of Music Thomas Hodgson on the affects of A.I. and algorithms on music worldwide — see News Issue 2 Winter 2023 "The Turing Test" for the article accompanying this interview
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August 22, 2023 at 9:50 PM
Some idle thoughts of mine on music AI, where we are, and where we're going, with UCLA Radio.
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Greetings from Tahoe 🍻
August 22, 2023 at 8:52 PM
Greetings from Tahoe 🍻