Pleased to say that I'll be at SCMS again next year, this time presenting on a panel with @kategalloway.bsky.social, @hoagietime.bsky.social, and @oscarmoralde.com!

North American Conference on Video Game Music (NACVGM) 13 Conference CFP (Formats: Paper Presentation, Poster/Game Demo/Sound Art Installation, Performance) Dates: May 1–2, 2026 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI); Troy, NY (in person & virtual) Deadline: November 21 2025 nacvgm.org/proposals/

It is fall syllabus time: any fav music/sound and fandom chapters/articles/readings?

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Popular Music and Society Taylor Swift Guest Edited by Sarai Brinker, Kate Galloway, and Elizabeth Scala

The special issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies coedited by myself and Janine Bower appears to be out. Here is a link to the table of contents intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

Another copy out in the world!

Got it in my hot little hands at last! So grateful to @pch9857.bsky.social, @kategalloway.bsky.social, and Christa Bentley for the work of putting it all together! In my TSwift Era, obvs.

Another plug of the collection www.routledge.com/Taylor-Swift...

Pre-orders now open: www.routledge.com/Taylor-Swift...

On behalf of Sensory Studies legend & ringleader David Howes, re-sharing the Uncommon Senses V cfp, happening May 7-10 @ Concordia U in Montreal. Deadline is Jan 20. A wonderful conf & v welcoming community. Please circulate & happy to answer questions! www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...

evergreen thread (see what i did there)

It's hot off the press

Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games: Listening to and Performing Ludic Soundscapes is out and has an author flyer!

Hard copies!

Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games: Listening to and Performing Ludic Soundscapes is out and has an author flyer!

Off to AMS to do a few things

The book is out www.routledge.com/Music-and-So...

The book is out www.routledge.com/Music-and-So...

It’s 3:30am ET and day 1 of Ludo2024. My big (slightly messy) coffee #1 is well underway. @ludomusicology.bsky.social

Giving the invited keynote talk to launch TayDay at the University of Liverpool organized by @askjerseth.bsky.social & Sam Murray which is sold out with over 600+ audience members.

A new interview with me about my recent book: "University of Colorado English alum flunks grades in new book: Jesse Stommel compiles two decades of eyebrow-raising in Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop..." www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...

Delighted to share the programme / registration details for our upcoming international conference “Screen Studies in the Age of XR & Synthetic Media” (The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, June 4–5; generously supported by IRC) www.tcd.ie/creativearts... Keynote by the wonderful Prof Jenna Ng

Please check out (and share!) our CfP for the conference 'Screen Studies in the Age of Extended Reality & Synthetic Media', with a keynote by Prof. Jenna Ng. Supported by the Irish Research Council, it will take place in Trinity College Dublin on June 4th-5th. drive.google.com/file/d/1wRg-...

Come hear @kategalloway.bsky.social and @pch9857.bsky.social talk about T-Swift!!! iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

Very excited to talk with Christa Bentley & Paula Harper about our forthcoming collection Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans w/ Nate Sloan Monday May 6 @ 5pm ET in the Popular Music Books In Progress series hosted by @iaspm-us.bsky.social. Info here: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

Coming soon-ish: Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games Listening to and Performing Ludic Soundscapes Edited By Kate Galloway, Elizabeth Hambleton www.routledge.com/Music-and-So...

It’s out!

“I think these photographs could inspire individuals to reclaim and cultivate these tree pits, even temporarily, especially in areas lacking green spaces. I created this map accessible to all with the hope that the data will be used somehow by other people.”

CFP Reminder FTM Feminist Theory and Music (FT&M) 17, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 20–22, 2024. Deadline: Nov. 30, 2023 sites.google.com/umich.edu/ft...

Anyone out there in academia social media land have favourite pieces on thrift store finds and creativity/creative arts practice?

Our special issue of Journal of Popular Music Studies is out and *free* online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3... @iaspm-us.bsky.social

The special issue of Jazz & Culture I guest edited featuring Bondy Kaye, James Heazlewood-Dale, and Marvin McNeill is here. Jazz Across Screen Media: Representation, Rearrangement, and Reperformance scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jac/issu...

Seeya later AMS-SMT

Friends what are some of your Animal Crossing New Horizons island names and what are they named for/after. And can I used a few in a chapter footnote :) @musicologess.bsky.social @rebawissner.bsky.social and more