Jason Petrulis
@petrulis.bsky.social
History prof in Hong Kong. My award-winning articles:
“A Country of Hair”: ROK Wigs, Kor Am Entrepreneurs, Af Am Hairstyles, & Cold War Industrialization
http://bit.ly/3PENmX0
The jawbone/quijada as global Black musical instrument
https://bit.ly/4nAl7ba
“A Country of Hair”: ROK Wigs, Kor Am Entrepreneurs, Af Am Hairstyles, & Cold War Industrialization
http://bit.ly/3PENmX0
The jawbone/quijada as global Black musical instrument
https://bit.ly/4nAl7ba
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@petrulis.bsky.social
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“Georgie Buck” performed by Rhiannon Giddens, Banjo l Met Music
“Georgie Buck”, a traditional Appalachian folk song, performed on the banjo by Rhiannon Giddens. Filmed in the André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instrument...
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Banjo history 🗃️ 🧵:
By now you know Rhiannon Giddens plays banjo in the opening of Beyoncé's “Texas Hold ‘Em.” But here’s Giddens playing almost exactly the same riff in 2018!
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
What's the story?
By now you know Rhiannon Giddens plays banjo in the opening of Beyoncé's “Texas Hold ‘Em.” But here’s Giddens playing almost exactly the same riff in 2018!
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
What's the story?
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Love is the Message joins BlueSky!
We're a podcast about music, the dance floor, sound systems and counterculture, hosted by @jemgilbert.bsky.social and Tim Lawrence.
www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk
Apple: tinyurl.com/5n6ehsd6
Spotify: tinyurl.com/59fnvebu
Patreon: tinyurl.com/mvbmdc9e
We're a podcast about music, the dance floor, sound systems and counterculture, hosted by @jemgilbert.bsky.social and Tim Lawrence.
www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk
Apple: tinyurl.com/5n6ehsd6
Spotify: tinyurl.com/59fnvebu
Patreon: tinyurl.com/mvbmdc9e
October 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Love is the Message joins BlueSky!
We're a podcast about music, the dance floor, sound systems and counterculture, hosted by @jemgilbert.bsky.social and Tim Lawrence.
www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk
Apple: tinyurl.com/5n6ehsd6
Spotify: tinyurl.com/59fnvebu
Patreon: tinyurl.com/mvbmdc9e
We're a podcast about music, the dance floor, sound systems and counterculture, hosted by @jemgilbert.bsky.social and Tim Lawrence.
www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk
Apple: tinyurl.com/5n6ehsd6
Spotify: tinyurl.com/59fnvebu
Patreon: tinyurl.com/mvbmdc9e
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Our report is published! Free and available to the public!
Black History at the Vassall Estate
Longfellow House—Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
This is the story of a Black family in Massachusetts who exemplified the spirit of liberty.
read:
irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Do...
Black History at the Vassall Estate
Longfellow House—Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
This is the story of a Black family in Massachusetts who exemplified the spirit of liberty.
read:
irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Do...
September 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Our report is published! Free and available to the public!
Black History at the Vassall Estate
Longfellow House—Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
This is the story of a Black family in Massachusetts who exemplified the spirit of liberty.
read:
irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Do...
Black History at the Vassall Estate
Longfellow House—Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
This is the story of a Black family in Massachusetts who exemplified the spirit of liberty.
read:
irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Do...
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"Journey With Me Through Hong Kong, My Home," a children's activity book published by Professor Puja Kapai's DEIJB Lab at HKU, highlights the lives and careers of 12 ethnically diverse women in the city. In full: buff.ly/YnEFq69
Children's book on HK's ethnic minority women empowers young readers
"Journey With Me Through Hong Kong, My Home," a children's activity book published by Professor Puja Kapai's DEIJB Lab at HKU, highlights the lives and careers of 12 ethnically diverse women in the city.
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September 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"Journey With Me Through Hong Kong, My Home," a children's activity book published by Professor Puja Kapai's DEIJB Lab at HKU, highlights the lives and careers of 12 ethnically diverse women in the city. In full: buff.ly/YnEFq69
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It's August 6 in Japan now. I'm thinking of my family's experience in Hiroshima 80 years ago and feeling grateful that I spent some time in the city this past January. Photo taken at Shukkeien, where my great grandmother evacuated to escape the fire that engulfed her neighborhood after the bombing.
August 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
It's August 6 in Japan now. I'm thinking of my family's experience in Hiroshima 80 years ago and feeling grateful that I spent some time in the city this past January. Photo taken at Shukkeien, where my great grandmother evacuated to escape the fire that engulfed her neighborhood after the bombing.
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BREAKING! Over the moon excited to announce Ai Hisano's appointment as next editor-in-chief at @entandsoc.bsky.social!
@entandsoc.bsky.social is delighted to announce that Prof. Ai Hisano has been chosen as incoming Editor-in-Chief. This is a truly exciting appointment that promises a bright new phase in the journal's history. More about Ai and her fascinating work can be found here:
www.aihisano.com
www.aihisano.com
Ai Hisano | Historian
www.aihisano.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
BREAKING! Over the moon excited to announce Ai Hisano's appointment as next editor-in-chief at @entandsoc.bsky.social!
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How can we teach about disaster & history using ephemera? Revisit our #NCCSpotlight “Earthquake Children Image Archive: A Window into Disaster & Humanity” by Dr. Janet Borland (ICU) to learn how her work on the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake translates to classrooms: guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
July 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
How can we teach about disaster & history using ephemera? Revisit our #NCCSpotlight “Earthquake Children Image Archive: A Window into Disaster & Humanity” by Dr. Janet Borland (ICU) to learn how her work on the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake translates to classrooms: guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
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💬 "The committee was impressed by the article's significant contribution to organology as it recontextualizes the jawbone/quijada, highlighting its multifaceted cultural roles." www.facebook.com/100064526028...
🏆 Learn more about the prize: www.amis.org/frances-dens...
🏆 Learn more about the prize: www.amis.org/frances-dens...
July 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
💬 "The committee was impressed by the article's significant contribution to organology as it recontextualizes the jawbone/quijada, highlighting its multifaceted cultural roles." www.facebook.com/100064526028...
🏆 Learn more about the prize: www.amis.org/frances-dens...
🏆 Learn more about the prize: www.amis.org/frances-dens...
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📄 "From Jonkonnu and Son de los diablos to Congo Square and Son Jarocho: Global Histories of the Jawbone/Quijada as a Black Musical Instrument" @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
Project MUSE - From Jonkonnu and Son de los diablos to Congo Square and Son Jarocho: Global Histories of the Jawbone/Quijada as a Black Musical Instrument
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July 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
📄 "From Jonkonnu and Son de los diablos to Congo Square and Son Jarocho: Global Histories of the Jawbone/Quijada as a Black Musical Instrument" @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
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🎉 Congratulations to American Music author Dr. Jason Petrulis for being recognized as the 2025 Honorable Mention for the Frances Densmore Prize from the American Musical Instrument Society! @petrulis.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🎉 Congratulations to American Music author Dr. Jason Petrulis for being recognized as the 2025 Honorable Mention for the Frances Densmore Prize from the American Musical Instrument Society! @petrulis.bsky.social
🗃️ Reminder: if you are a university professor, professor emeritus, or associate professor of history, you are eligible to nominate *anyone you want* for a Nobel Peace Prize.
www.nobelprize.org/nomination/p...
Nominations for 2026 open in September!
www.nobelprize.org/nomination/p...
Nominations for 2026 open in September!
Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...
www.nobelprize.org
July 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
🗃️ Reminder: if you are a university professor, professor emeritus, or associate professor of history, you are eligible to nominate *anyone you want* for a Nobel Peace Prize.
www.nobelprize.org/nomination/p...
Nominations for 2026 open in September!
www.nobelprize.org/nomination/p...
Nominations for 2026 open in September!
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The Smithsonian Folkways site is a treasure trove of African American, African diaspora, and African religious music. For Juneteenth, Folkways recommends "Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast."
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Acclaimed upholders of the African American ring shout, the McIntosh County Shouters keep the faith, form, and fervor of the generations-old tradition rooted in their small community of coastal Georgi...
folkways.si.edu
June 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The Smithsonian Folkways site is a treasure trove of African American, African diaspora, and African religious music. For Juneteenth, Folkways recommends "Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast."
🗃️ So excited it is finally out:
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje's Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture
FREE download:
play.google.com/store/books/...
Apparently it is open access via @upmississippi.bsky.social and @uclalibrary.bsky.social!
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje's Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture
FREE download:
play.google.com/store/books/...
Apparently it is open access via @upmississippi.bsky.social and @uclalibrary.bsky.social!
Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje - Books on Google Play
Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture - Ebook written by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offli...
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June 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🗃️ So excited it is finally out:
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje's Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture
FREE download:
play.google.com/store/books/...
Apparently it is open access via @upmississippi.bsky.social and @uclalibrary.bsky.social!
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje's Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture
FREE download:
play.google.com/store/books/...
Apparently it is open access via @upmississippi.bsky.social and @uclalibrary.bsky.social!
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DC folks, come join me at the Smithsonian today from noon to 1!
americanhistory.si.edu/events/calen...
americanhistory.si.edu/events/calen...
Book Signing: Neil Young, "Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right"
americanhistory.si.edu
June 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
DC folks, come join me at the Smithsonian today from noon to 1!
americanhistory.si.edu/events/calen...
americanhistory.si.edu/events/calen...
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Newberry Scholarly Seminar Deadline Approaching! June 6. Please apply!
June 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Newberry Scholarly Seminar Deadline Approaching! June 6. Please apply!
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Quite the time to be a historian of US civil rights and Black freedom struggles.
Here's a reading suggestion, from well before we got quote-unquote woke.
William Chafe, *Civilities and Civil Rights.*
Capsule version? Civility discourse impedes rights. Period.
archive.org/details/civi...
Here's a reading suggestion, from well before we got quote-unquote woke.
William Chafe, *Civilities and Civil Rights.*
Capsule version? Civility discourse impedes rights. Period.
archive.org/details/civi...
May 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Quite the time to be a historian of US civil rights and Black freedom struggles.
Here's a reading suggestion, from well before we got quote-unquote woke.
William Chafe, *Civilities and Civil Rights.*
Capsule version? Civility discourse impedes rights. Period.
archive.org/details/civi...
Here's a reading suggestion, from well before we got quote-unquote woke.
William Chafe, *Civilities and Civil Rights.*
Capsule version? Civility discourse impedes rights. Period.
archive.org/details/civi...
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I had the pleasure of being one of the people Juli would share her insights with while walking around Hong Kong. It sparked lots of conversations about what we can vs. what we choose to call history. Super honoured to share Juli's work in From Place to Place!
How do you tell a history of a city hidden in plain sight?
Fifty years since the first arrival of Vietnamese refugees to Hong Kong, Juliana Yat Shun Kei asks how to adequately locate Hong Kong's Vietnamese refugee camps.
Fifty years since the first arrival of Vietnamese refugees to Hong Kong, Juliana Yat Shun Kei asks how to adequately locate Hong Kong's Vietnamese refugee camps.
Do you know this place used to be a camp?
How do you tell a history of a city hidden in plain sight? Juliana Yat Shun Kei asks how best to locate Hong Kong's Vietnamese refugee camps.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
May 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I had the pleasure of being one of the people Juli would share her insights with while walking around Hong Kong. It sparked lots of conversations about what we can vs. what we choose to call history. Super honoured to share Juli's work in From Place to Place!
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🎉 I’m SO proud to share that Black Voices in Asian Studies—a new initiative from #NABEA, is LIVE!
This newsletter is all about spotlighting the Black scholars, professionals and leaders shaping the field of Asian Studies!
🚨 Our 1st issue just dropped—check it out & share
mailchi.mp/c4f01de26c19...
This newsletter is all about spotlighting the Black scholars, professionals and leaders shaping the field of Asian Studies!
🚨 Our 1st issue just dropped—check it out & share
mailchi.mp/c4f01de26c19...
April 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
🎉 I’m SO proud to share that Black Voices in Asian Studies—a new initiative from #NABEA, is LIVE!
This newsletter is all about spotlighting the Black scholars, professionals and leaders shaping the field of Asian Studies!
🚨 Our 1st issue just dropped—check it out & share
mailchi.mp/c4f01de26c19...
This newsletter is all about spotlighting the Black scholars, professionals and leaders shaping the field of Asian Studies!
🚨 Our 1st issue just dropped—check it out & share
mailchi.mp/c4f01de26c19...
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Open access publication! My book is now available open access for everyone to read and download free on the @ucpress.bsky.social website: www.ucpress.edu/books/in-the... A brief thread about the book /1
In the Global Vanguard by James Lin - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
April 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Open access publication! My book is now available open access for everyone to read and download free on the @ucpress.bsky.social website: www.ucpress.edu/books/in-the... A brief thread about the book /1
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This book has been a few years in the making and we are so excited to share the cover! Kristina R. Gaddy and I have brought together 19 pieces of Black music created between 1687 and 1867, spanning from the Caribbean to North America, with my banjo tab, plus the story behind each piece.
April 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This book has been a few years in the making and we are so excited to share the cover! Kristina R. Gaddy and I have brought together 19 pieces of Black music created between 1687 and 1867, spanning from the Caribbean to North America, with my banjo tab, plus the story behind each piece.
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On #highereducation, historical research, #archives, #libraries, and the benefits of finding and evaluating original materials rather than asking a plagiarism-ecocide to tell you what exists, see this essay in my free newsletter: buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
buttondown.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
On #highereducation, historical research, #archives, #libraries, and the benefits of finding and evaluating original materials rather than asking a plagiarism-ecocide to tell you what exists, see this essay in my free newsletter: buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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We cherish everything we publish, but occasionally something special comes along. So, we're delighted to present Michael Bennett & Mike Anson's "The Compensation Agency Business: London Merchants, Bankers, & the Payment of Slavery Compensation, 1835-46." This ...
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The Compensation Agency Business: London Merchants, Bankers, and the Payment of Slavery Compensation, 1835-46 | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
The Compensation Agency Business: London Merchants, Bankers, and the Payment of Slavery Compensation, 1835-46
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February 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
We cherish everything we publish, but occasionally something special comes along. So, we're delighted to present Michael Bennett & Mike Anson's "The Compensation Agency Business: London Merchants, Bankers, & the Payment of Slavery Compensation, 1835-46." This ...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
All of Yasmin Williams's Tiny Desk concert is great, but I was especially taken by the fascinating way this song combines instruments/techniques/sounds. Williams tapes a kalimba to her guitar and plays both at once, while she also tap dances on a tarima, backed by a djembe!
youtu.be/E6-z-Gqd30Q?...
youtu.be/E6-z-Gqd30Q?...
Yasmin Williams: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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February 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
All of Yasmin Williams's Tiny Desk concert is great, but I was especially taken by the fascinating way this song combines instruments/techniques/sounds. Williams tapes a kalimba to her guitar and plays both at once, while she also tap dances on a tarima, backed by a djembe!
youtu.be/E6-z-Gqd30Q?...
youtu.be/E6-z-Gqd30Q?...
🗃️ History at the Grammys:
Banjo history 🗃️ 🧵:
By now you know Rhiannon Giddens plays banjo in the opening of Beyoncé's “Texas Hold ‘Em.” But here’s Giddens playing almost exactly the same riff in 2018!
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
What's the story?
By now you know Rhiannon Giddens plays banjo in the opening of Beyoncé's “Texas Hold ‘Em.” But here’s Giddens playing almost exactly the same riff in 2018!
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
What's the story?
“Georgie Buck” performed by Rhiannon Giddens, Banjo l Met Music
“Georgie Buck”, a traditional Appalachian folk song, performed on the banjo by Rhiannon Giddens. Filmed in the André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instrument...
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
🗃️ History at the Grammys:
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It's American Music Vol. 41, No. 3! Featuring "From Jonkonnu and Son de los diablos to Congo Square and Son Jarocho: Global Histories of the Jawbone/Quijada as a Black Musical Instrument" by @petrulis.bsky.social & 3 other new articles on @projectmuse.bsky.social
Project MUSE - American Music-Volume 41, Number 3, Fall 2023
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January 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It's American Music Vol. 41, No. 3! Featuring "From Jonkonnu and Son de los diablos to Congo Square and Son Jarocho: Global Histories of the Jawbone/Quijada as a Black Musical Instrument" by @petrulis.bsky.social & 3 other new articles on @projectmuse.bsky.social
FYI, Microsoft is changing its Office 365 package to raise the price by including AI.
To reject this, go to account then subscription, then choose "cancel" and it will give you the option to revert to "Classic" ($30 cheaper) without AI.
To reject this, go to account then subscription, then choose "cancel" and it will give you the option to revert to "Classic" ($30 cheaper) without AI.
January 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
FYI, Microsoft is changing its Office 365 package to raise the price by including AI.
To reject this, go to account then subscription, then choose "cancel" and it will give you the option to revert to "Classic" ($30 cheaper) without AI.
To reject this, go to account then subscription, then choose "cancel" and it will give you the option to revert to "Classic" ($30 cheaper) without AI.