We saw I Love Boosters over the weekend! 1. So fun, so silly, this is Keke Palmer’s world and we’re all just living in it; and 2. Shoutout to Tune-Yards for somehow beautifully capturing what running errands sounds like in this track open.spotify.com/track/17CLqZ...

An artifact from my very first AMS conference! Back when I was a wee first year Master’s student still figuring out what musicology is. 🥹 That was such an exciting time, and I can’t wait to guide my own Master’s students through their first conference experiences!

I’ll be speaking about my Eurovision 2024 fieldwork here on the morning of June 5. Will I turn the diss chapter into an article? A book chapter? Both??? Come help me figure it out 🤭

My diss has been published on ProQuest! DM me if you don't have institutional access and I'll happily share a copy with you. www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal1/...

The children yearn for Sen Trope

BANGARANGA

Song of the summer incoming youtu.be/EltgrumKJfk?...

I was hooded yesterday!

This plus a seminar on your discipline's most famous feuds/scandals

I’m dancing on the table baby 🇨🇾 #Eurovision

Hmmm I wonder what unnamed thing the fans quoted in this article (from Eurovision itself, with no author) want to protect Eurovision from www.eurovision.com/newsroom/rel...

Israel’s efforts to influence the vote for the Eurovision Song Contest to improve its international reputation were far broader than previously known, a New York Times investigation found. Here is the inside story of the controversy that almost broke Eurovision. nyti.ms/3Rellcg

Huge day for those of us at Blackboard schools

I’m grateful to announce that I’ve accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Tennessee! I’m looking forward to becoming a (paid) Volunteer and joining the stellar faculty at the University’s Natalie L. Haslam College of Music in the fall.

We made our cat in Tomodachi Life

My review of Anita Jóri and Guillaume Robin’s fascinating co-edited book Living At Night in Times of Pandemic: Night Studies and Club Culture in France and Germany is now published in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society. online.ucpress.edu/jams/article...

Now what do y'all know about women of Mongolian pop and trance from 2000–2006 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMvr...

Dissertation printed and submitted to ProQuest, exit paperwork signed, keys returned, farewells in process. All that’s left is commencement and conferral. Thanks for a great five years, Eastman. xoxo Dr./Prof. Flood

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

📢 Calling all special collections oomfs! I’m doing a very informal survey of how different American universities staff their special collections reading rooms. If you’re willing to answer a few questions, please DM me! (You don’t need to work in the RR, you just need to know how the RR is run)

This morning I successfully defended my dissertation in a closed meeting with my committee. Massive thanks to my advisors, Lisa Jakelski and Darren Mueller, and committee members, Anaar Desai-Stephens and Andrea Bohlman, for their support throughout this process!

If y'all hear/feel an earthquake it's the Khia Asylum doors shaking!!! open.spotify.com/track/3TWpz0...

CFP: Sounding Things: Props, Material Culture, and Accessories in Popular Music Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2026 Abstract Length: 350–500 words Editors: Kate Galloway, Paxton Haven, and Mike Levine Full call here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mfyd...

Post a banger that’s not in English. youtu.be/VCeEEFzVqeA?...

Final copy (pre-defense revisions): done and submitted ✅ Next stop: defense!

Olympic curling has me crashing out a bit, standing in front of my TV shouting “yeah!!!” and “oh!!!” like I’m a middle-aged father watching football

Our deadline is a week from today! Join us in Cleveland this summer!

The brilliant Jessica Swanston Baker is required pregame reading today - on music, language, transmission, power, and the caribbean www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

If you ignore the location of this pic I kinda ate here

Members and friends of the AMS Popular Music Study Group: We're now on Discord! Join our channel here: discord.gg/rSZU4zgJ

Needed to read this today as I continue my pre-defense revisions.

PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine against-a-i.com

Bluesky is owned by musicology now, I don’t make the rules

Junior scholars and late-stage graduate students in popular music studies! The AMS Popular Music Study Group is now accepting applications for our biannual Junior Scholar Symposium in Cleveland this summer! Read our full call here and please share widely. amspop.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/2...

I've begun to use my social media—Bsky, Insta, FB—on my laptop more so than my phone, to the point where I'm considering deleting at least the latter two apps from my phone. Wondering if this is a sign of A. good mental health and boundaries; B. my approaching 30s; or C. all of the above.

Conchita Wurst steps back from #Eurovision, the year 🇦🇹 is hosting again: ‘My connection to the ESC remains - as part of my history, not as the place for my next steps.’ The singer who dedicated her 2014 win to ‘everyone who believes in a future of peace and freedom’ has left the contest behind.

Meanwhile, at the Rochester NY #DragRace viewing party

Anna Delvey #DragRace guest judge when

Next week’s #DragRace maxi challenge is “QPop” girl groups and idk what that means in Drag Race terms but I really hope they’re referring to real life QPop—Qazaq/Kazakh Pop 🇰🇿 youtu.be/TkNfDWm0hhc?...

*screams in my JPMS article on Afro-Swedishness and the surveillance of (sonic) Blackness in Europe* online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...

Word incoming #9LC

We brought Stewie (our 16yo beauty) with us to my partner’s family’s house for the holiday. She has a whole new house to explore but she just wants to loaf on the carpet floor.

Cloudbusting Wuthering Heights Wow This Woman’s Work Running Up That Hill The Big Sky
 Sat In Your Lap Babooshka Hounds of Love Suspended in Gaffa

Finished Expedition 33 a few days ago and Maelle’s ending is for ppl who think that inanimate objects have feelings (it’s me I’m ppl)

Now under contract from @manchesterup.bsky.social: PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS on #Eurovision and its narratives of queer, national, European belonging in post-Cold-War Europe bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p... The history and memory behind where we now are.

“1990–2024” has been doing some beautiful work for me over the past few days

Just submitted the fair copy of my dissertation! “‘United By Music’: Europeanism, Migration, and Belonging through the Eurovision Song Contest, 1990–2024.”

🇳🇱 TV general director: ‘Culture unites, but not at any price.’ 🇪🇸, 🇮🇪, 🇸🇮 also out of #Eurovision 2026, as they said before last delegations’ meeting (🇸🇮 taking that stand first). 🇧🇪, 🇮🇸 to decide in coming days.

Submitting my Ph.D. dissertation on #Eurovision to my committee tomorrow morning. Surely nothing major will happen between now and then...right?