Emo Con Schedule is live today!!! With links to sign up for virtual presentation! www.emocon2026.com

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IDK if they made this intentional, but having Jar Jar voting for the complete consolidation of power because he was given a responsibility he was never worthy of only to realize he made a grave mistake and then does the bare minimum to fix it is a perfect encapsulation of the modern democratic party

On one hand, it would probably help if I submitted about music people know and care about On the other hand, "Topanga Lawrence" by Charmer is an absolute gem of a tune www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG_W...

hey does someone who gets accepted to SMT wanna look at my abstract and tell me why I'm gonna get rejected from SMT again

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In the spirit of this post, some great abstracts we got for emocon2026 (full schedule will be posted at emocon2026.com soon): - "What is the Midwest in Midwest Emo - The emo scene in the post ussr Czech Republic - "I'm not okay-fabe" - "The hospital as place in The Black Parade"

Huge shout out to Saint louis public radio for doing a story on emocon! We got 50+ submissions and should have some great talks!!! Grab your skinny jeans and head to this St. Louis emo conference | STLPR share.google/Lp16InuoCPxO...

New issue of Jazz and Culture! Vol. 8, No. 2, features three new articles, and oral history of saxophonist Donny Whitehead, three poems by @kassy-lee.bsky.social, and two book reviews. cc: @vcmusictheory.bsky.social, @michaelnomalice.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jac/issu...

Really excited to be teaching my course "Music and the Politics of Cool," which asks students to unpack the cultural implications required to name some as "cool" Here's the syllabus! cvarun7.wixsite.com/website/post...

Hopped on Dan's podcast to talk about emo, neoliberalism and it Mingus would like Midwestern emo (he would)!!!

My "i passed a cognitive test for the third time" shirt is raising a lot of questions already... wait, what are we talking about again

My first ccm gig, I got the call the night before and didn't get to practice. Not being familiar with the genre conventions when we got to the big repeated outro sing along section, I saw a big open space and began playing a ripping guitar solo The MD was not happy

Broke: Jazz is a four-letter word Woke: emo is a four-letter word

With regards to Drowning Pool's "Let The Bodies Hit The Floor," do you think the majority of people: A) like the song ironically B) like the song authentically C) dislike the song ironically D) dislike the song authentically I think A, B, or D could be right but no idea which it is

Quite the panoptic interpretation of "whose on third?"

Publication Day!!! My article "Jazz and Commitment: Sartre, Jazz, and Charles Mingus" was just published in Jazz and Culture. This article uses Sartre's theories of commitment to explain how Mingus's improvisations stake their political commentary! Super excited to see this out in the world!!!

Publication Day!!! My article "Jazz and Commitment: Sartre, Jazz, and Charles Mingus" was just published in Jazz and Culture. This article uses Sartre's theories of commitment to explain how Mingus's improvisations stake their political commentary! Super excited to see this out in the world!!!

the absolute irony of the position of this essay is that it a) believes in timeless gender roles that transcend historical basis and b) is written by a woman in a university, a thing that is strictly forbidden by her "women as servers" ideology By her own accord, I should not listen to her

I am teaching a class for the first time since 2023 in the spring...I am heavily considering my AI policy being "just send me an email that says 'I was going to use AI to do this assignment; and I will give you a C+, no questions asked and we will save a couple water bottles.'"

"Skin as part of brain" sung to the tune of "insane in the brain"

Update: WINONA FIGHTER is a good band and "MY APOLOGIES TO THE CHEF" is a great album "You're all just masturbating to your Tiktok page/Don't mind me I just woke up in my shit-talk phase" is the exact lyrical gold that I would expect from a band called WINONA FIGHTER

Fine, I'll be the president of ams

One week under COMMUNIST Zohran Mamdani and the once great American Musicological Society does this. SAD!

Can someone dm me the ams stuff?!?!?!

Enjoy limited-time free access to the current issues of UC Press music journals during #AMS2025, including JAMS, JM, @iaspm-us.bsky.social's JPMS, @sssmg.bsky.social's JSMG, MP, NCM, and RES, www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/f...

Hey, I feel like they're not publicizing this much, but SMT is doing free livestreams of selected sessions. Info is gathered here: minneapolis2025.ams-smt.org/smt-hybrid-s... #amsmt25

Thanks Tyler for letting me know that it's fine if I check in at 3, I just wont get to check in

Come to my AMS talk on Sartre, Baraka, Adorno and Mingus

Throughout Spongebob, Plankton's main goal is to steal the Krabby Patty Formula, believing that it would vault the Chum Bucket to success. However, in Adorno's formulation of capitalism, products are always homogenous, the differences superficial, and thus Plankton's goals are silly. In this essay,

Im not sure if I like the song "YOU LOOK LIKE A DRUNK PHOEBE BRIDGERS" by the band Winona Fighter, but I do like the fact that there is a song called "YOU LOOK LIKE A DRUNK PHOEBE BRIDGERS" by a band called Winona Fighter youtu.be/SF7WB9MCC4w?...

It is bluntly insulting to be getting something like this as a scholar

Im too lazy to do this, but can someone photocopy foucault's head with a loaf of bread and then ex out the title to be "the focaccia reader"

So excited to share my most recent article "'If I Die, I Wanna Die in the Suburbs': Pop-Punk and the Crisis of Neoliberalism" has been published in Musicology Now! musicologynow.org/if-i-die-i-w...

So excited to share my most recent article "'If I Die, I Wanna Die in the Suburbs': Pop-Punk and the Crisis of Neoliberalism" has been published in Musicology Now! musicologynow.org/if-i-die-i-w...

Super excited to announce that I will be hosting "A Conference...But It's Midwestern Emo" in April 2026, what I believe to be the first conference dedicated to emo studies!!! Poster by Jacob Cupps!!!

Super excited to announce that I will be hosting "A Conference...But It's Midwestern Emo" in April 2026, what I believe to be the first conference dedicated to emo studies!!! Poster by Jacob Cupps!!!

James bond and the giant peach

It's my birthday today... I only have one wish

This is a guitar arrangement of the main riff from a famous pop song that we are rearranging... can people tell what song it is just from the riff? 1. Not content farming, genuinely curious how surprised people would be if they heard it after this intro 2. Please ignore sloppiness

R/thewire is hillarious because half of the posts are"wow, this is a breath taking display of the interconnected failures of institutions with little to no concern about the lasting impacts of their cruelty" and the other half are "Omar go pew pew"

SAM ALTMAN: "I GOT YOUR NOSE"

Jazz/film nerds... did John Williams bite the two moons theme from round midnight? Obviously he knew some jazz/funk/fusion (Jedi Rock) and bit plenty from classical composers (Mars), but i haven't seen anyone talk about him biting individual jazz artists? youtu.be/z3crfXk2L1Y?...

This begs the question: what good is a phd-level knowledge of something without its depth? Millions of free phd level articles for free on jstor, but they are all 20+ pages and assume a phd level reader and interpreter. Having a source of the knowledge has never been the issue

Underlying this action is a deep seated belief that billioniares would gladly raise millions to waste on a campaign that is clearly doomed than... pay a couple million more in taxes for the good of society

Does anyone know of any string quartets/small ensemble classical music groups who compose in a manner more akin to rock/jazz/popular groups, where the shape of the music is dictated by group effort (even if certain people take larger roles in the process)?

Upon returning to Germany post ww2, adorno noted an odd phenomenon. While just years ago the streets were littered with facist supporters and antisemites, adorno couldn't find a single n*zi. Not one. As if it had just happened through no individual agency.

The thing about Ozzy is that he really was the first to synthesize everything that makes metal metal... No matter what discourse you buy into (metal is form of punk, metal and occult, metal and virtuosity, metal as performative theater, etc) you can find a lineage back to Ozzy

The Four Genders (please look at this thread, this is wild and my new favorite plotline of the season)