Jake Blount
@jakeblount.com
Making and studying the musics of Black otherworlds.
🎻 New Dangerfield
📚 Brown University
🎻 New Dangerfield
📚 Brown University
Stepping out the door tomorrow to kick off summer gigs at World Pride in DC! Y'all know where to go for more info. Hope to see you somewhere out there!
June 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Stepping out the door tomorrow to kick off summer gigs at World Pride in DC! Y'all know where to go for more info. Hope to see you somewhere out there!
Jake Blount, A.M.! After two tiring, mind-expanding years, I got my Master’s in Musicology and Ethnomusicology from Brown University last weekend. Qualifying exams, my anthropology A.M., and the music Ph.D. remain ahead, but it's nice to have a win—largely thanks to the folks pictured here.
May 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Jake Blount, A.M.! After two tiring, mind-expanding years, I got my Master’s in Musicology and Ethnomusicology from Brown University last weekend. Qualifying exams, my anthropology A.M., and the music Ph.D. remain ahead, but it's nice to have a win—largely thanks to the folks pictured here.
I haven't been on here lately bc I've been busy finishing my MA (more on that later), but cool stuff happened! I am unspeakably grateful to have played a small role in the making of Sinners as a music consultant. If I could commission the film of my dreams, it would be very much like this one.
May 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I haven't been on here lately bc I've been busy finishing my MA (more on that later), but cool stuff happened! I am unspeakably grateful to have played a small role in the making of Sinners as a music consultant. If I could commission the film of my dreams, it would be very much like this one.
so i just found out about pine martens? i'm sorry, this is the cutest animal of all time
February 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
so i just found out about pine martens? i'm sorry, this is the cutest animal of all time
Some of the stickers in question
December 30, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Some of the stickers in question
I literally wore this CD out as a kid, like my copy stopped working. And to this day I wonder why nobody was concerned about the eight year old in the next room screaming “MY WOUNDS CRY FOR THE GRAVE! MY SOUL CRIES FOR DELIVERANCE!!”
December 30, 2024 at 3:03 PM
I literally wore this CD out as a kid, like my copy stopped working. And to this day I wonder why nobody was concerned about the eight year old in the next room screaming “MY WOUNDS CRY FOR THE GRAVE! MY SOUL CRIES FOR DELIVERANCE!!”
Symbiont made @theguardian.com’s best folk albums of 2024!! Very honored 🙏🏽
December 16, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Symbiont made @theguardian.com’s best folk albums of 2024!! Very honored 🙏🏽
this seems great and surely will produce no negative results whatsoever
December 13, 2024 at 10:14 AM
this seems great and surely will produce no negative results whatsoever
I, a Black folk musician, had to give the Lomaxes songwriter credits and pay the estate $1500 to use fragments of songs they did not write or personally perform on my last album. Months later, I am citing one of his recordings in a paper, and the only attribution he offers is to "Unidentified men"
December 10, 2024 at 12:31 AM
I, a Black folk musician, had to give the Lomaxes songwriter credits and pay the estate $1500 to use fragments of songs they did not write or personally perform on my last album. Months later, I am citing one of his recordings in a paper, and the only attribution he offers is to "Unidentified men"
With you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
December 2, 2024 at 1:49 AM
With you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#imogenheap
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#imogenheap
December 1, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#imogenheap
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#imogenheap
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#ZealandArdor
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#ZealandArdor
November 30, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#ZealandArdor
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#ZealandArdor
With you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
November 30, 2024 at 8:11 AM
With you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
I don’t really subscribe to ~the holiday~ for obvious reasons, but it’s special to me as a day when my family would gather en masse and all of our food traditions would be in evidence at one time. I can’t wait to teach my niece how to make these.
November 28, 2024 at 11:15 PM
I don’t really subscribe to ~the holiday~ for obvious reasons, but it’s special to me as a day when my family would gather en masse and all of our food traditions would be in evidence at one time. I can’t wait to teach my niece how to make these.
I am once again BEGGING musicians and musicologists to give up the word “sounding,” bc NOBODY is going to believe me when I say I bought this for research purposes
November 22, 2024 at 12:28 AM
I am once again BEGGING musicians and musicologists to give up the word “sounding,” bc NOBODY is going to believe me when I say I bought this for research purposes
facebook is so over lmfao
November 18, 2024 at 10:35 AM
facebook is so over lmfao
Hi, everyone! There are many new folks and I haven't been here for a while, so: I'm a musician and Ph.D. student in ethnomusicology. I do Black folk music, Industrial music and Afrofuturism (all broadly defined). Queer and in search of speculative worlds 🛸 #MusicianSky #BlackSky #AcademicSky
November 14, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Hi, everyone! There are many new folks and I haven't been here for a while, so: I'm a musician and Ph.D. student in ethnomusicology. I do Black folk music, Industrial music and Afrofuturism (all broadly defined). Queer and in search of speculative worlds 🛸 #MusicianSky #BlackSky #AcademicSky
Please welcome: 𝕤𝕪𝕞𝕓𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕥, out now on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
"Haunting, prowling futurist folk music." -
Bandcamp
"Powerful, pulsing examples of the old tangling brilliantly with the new." - The Guardian
Listen on the platform of your choosing: orcd.co/jake-blount-...
"Haunting, prowling futurist folk music." -
Bandcamp
"Powerful, pulsing examples of the old tangling brilliantly with the new." - The Guardian
Listen on the platform of your choosing: orcd.co/jake-blount-...
November 14, 2024 at 5:50 AM
Please welcome: 𝕤𝕪𝕞𝕓𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕥, out now on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
"Haunting, prowling futurist folk music." -
Bandcamp
"Powerful, pulsing examples of the old tangling brilliantly with the new." - The Guardian
Listen on the platform of your choosing: orcd.co/jake-blount-...
"Haunting, prowling futurist folk music." -
Bandcamp
"Powerful, pulsing examples of the old tangling brilliantly with the new." - The Guardian
Listen on the platform of your choosing: orcd.co/jake-blount-...
a fictional character you would give an invite code to
July 4, 2023 at 12:32 AM
a fictional character you would give an invite code to