Lauron J. Kehrer
@lauronkehrer.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Ethno/Musicology. Author of Queer Voices In Hip Hop. lauronkehrer.com #FirstGen academic. They/Them. All opinions mine.
CFP: @iaspm-us.bsky.social 2026 Conference Popular Music and the State
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July 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
CFP: @iaspm-us.bsky.social 2026 Conference Popular Music and the State
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I am off to Paris for the Depression in Popular Music Conference and IASPM 2025. It will be my first time in France! Let’s see how rusty that middle school and high school French is 😅
June 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I am off to Paris for the Depression in Popular Music Conference and IASPM 2025. It will be my first time in France! Let’s see how rusty that middle school and high school French is 😅
GUESS WHO’S IN THE BEAN CLUB
June 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
GUESS WHO’S IN THE BEAN CLUB
Honored to have been recognized by the WMU college of Fine Arts with the Excellence in Creative Research award for 2025. 🥹
April 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Honored to have been recognized by the WMU college of Fine Arts with the Excellence in Creative Research award for 2025. 🥹
Congrats @lmgm.bsky.social on winning this year’s Guthrie award!!
March 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Congrats @lmgm.bsky.social on winning this year’s Guthrie award!!
Heading to PopCon/IASPM-US 2025! DTW is going hard with the 90s pop today
“How do I liiiiiive without youuuu”
“How do I liiiiiive without youuuu”
March 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Heading to PopCon/IASPM-US 2025! DTW is going hard with the 90s pop today
“How do I liiiiiive without youuuu”
“How do I liiiiiive without youuuu”
Look at @cristina4.bsky.social go! Love hearing about her book, Art Music Activism (@illinoispress.bsky.social) at the WMU Center for the Humanities Books & Beers Series 🤩
February 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Look at @cristina4.bsky.social go! Love hearing about her book, Art Music Activism (@illinoispress.bsky.social) at the WMU Center for the Humanities Books & Beers Series 🤩
😮💨 that was so stressful
February 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
😮💨 that was so stressful
This feels like a knock-off @musicologyduck.bsky.social 😒
November 13, 2024 at 5:06 PM
This feels like a knock-off @musicologyduck.bsky.social 😒
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 12, 2024 at 3:47 AM
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
I’ve been awarded the 2024 Marcia Herndon Article Award from the Society for Ethnomusicology Gender and Sexualities Section for “‘Sissy Style’: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in New Orleans Bounce Dance,” published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies! 🙏🏻
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October 27, 2024 at 1:58 PM
I’ve been awarded the 2024 Marcia Herndon Article Award from the Society for Ethnomusicology Gender and Sexualities Section for “‘Sissy Style’: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in New Orleans Bounce Dance,” published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies! 🙏🏻
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I did the civic duty thing today. The only bummer about absentee ballots is not getting an “I Voted” sticker after :/
October 22, 2024 at 1:03 AM
I did the civic duty thing today. The only bummer about absentee ballots is not getting an “I Voted” sticker after :/
I skipped the meeting and reception but can officially say now that I’ve been tenured at WMU.
BRB going to update all my bios and email signatures now.
BRB going to update all my bios and email signatures now.
June 27, 2024 at 10:03 PM
I skipped the meeting and reception but can officially say now that I’ve been tenured at WMU.
BRB going to update all my bios and email signatures now.
BRB going to update all my bios and email signatures now.
University of Michigan Press is having a spring sale and you can get a copy of my book, Queer Voices in Hip Hop for 50% off with promo code SPRING24
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May 28, 2024 at 6:17 PM
University of Michigan Press is having a spring sale and you can get a copy of my book, Queer Voices in Hip Hop for 50% off with promo code SPRING24
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Starting my last trip of the semester and it’s a double-header. First stop: Tallahassee!
April 9, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Starting my last trip of the semester and it’s a double-header. First stop: Tallahassee!
Congrats @johnconcerts.bsky.social on successfully defending his MA thesis on music in FromSoftware games and presenting a stimulating talk this evening!
April 5, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Congrats @johnconcerts.bsky.social on successfully defending his MA thesis on music in FromSoftware games and presenting a stimulating talk this evening!
Thanks @bardicknowledge.bsky.social for visiting WMU and sharing some of your work on music in remakes of video games! The students and faculty very much enjoyed your talk.
April 5, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Thanks @bardicknowledge.bsky.social for visiting WMU and sharing some of your work on music in remakes of video games! The students and faculty very much enjoyed your talk.
We are looking forward to hosting @bardicknowledge.bsky.social this Friday, April 5, at 2pm at WMU in Dalton 2113. Dr. Thompson (Michigan State University) will be presenting on how composers rework original material for recent rereleases of games. Please join us!
April 3, 2024 at 9:49 PM
We are looking forward to hosting @bardicknowledge.bsky.social this Friday, April 5, at 2pm at WMU in Dalton 2113. Dr. Thompson (Michigan State University) will be presenting on how composers rework original material for recent rereleases of games. Please join us!
Glad to be home for a full (but busy) week, but also anticipating my first ever trip to Florida soon as a guest of the FSU Society for Musicology!
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March 31, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Glad to be home for a full (but busy) week, but also anticipating my first ever trip to Florida soon as a guest of the FSU Society for Musicology!
nolecentral.dsa.fsu.edu/event/10064495
nolecentral.dsa.fsu.edu/event/10064495
Thank you Stony Brook University Music Department, including my wonderful colleagues Kevin Holt, Erika Supria, & @burrata.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at your colloquium series! Special thanks to Kevin for providing the most generous introduction anyone has ever given me!
March 29, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Thank you Stony Brook University Music Department, including my wonderful colleagues Kevin Holt, Erika Supria, & @burrata.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at your colloquium series! Special thanks to Kevin for providing the most generous introduction anyone has ever given me!
It’s Oberon Day which means spring is here 😎
March 25, 2024 at 9:16 PM
It’s Oberon Day which means spring is here 😎
Same, daffodils, same.
March 18, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Same, daffodils, same.