Wonderful book about the richness and complexity of Black-South Asian cultural connections (in case that topic might be in the water atm), in music specifically. by the extraordinary @ehphd.bsky.social

Popping in for a minute to say that it really sucks that the murder bill passed Congress and ALSO to thank every single person who tried to stop the bill from passing. What you did matters. Finally, I wrote a few words: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu... - I hope they might offer some encouragement.

We knew this about this Supreme Court. I guess everyone is on the same page now that the courts will not "save" us. The question is really how to save ourselves. On that, we need a lot more people doing a lot of different things for many years.

New special issue from JPMS!! This was one of the last things that @ehphd.bsky.social, @ericdharvey.com and I started before finishing our terms. Congratulations to Alisha Lola Jones, @burrata.bsky.social, Matthew Jones for their work with Georgina Born and @anthroposound.bsky.social on this!!

This issue is a big deal. First, it’s guest-edited by Georgina Born and @anthroposound.bsky.social , two of the best of their respective generations of musical anthropologists. Second, the contributor lineup is outstanding.

The Journal of Popular Music Studies, which I co-edit with Dr. Alisha Lola Jones, has openings for three positions -- an associate book reviews editor, an associate editor of the "field notes" section, and a web editor. Details at the link, spread the word: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/JPMScallsfor...

“In Minnesota, students are set to pay more for less.”

Stop whatever you doing & check out @scquarterly.bsky.social summer issue on the Hip-Hop South. Talm bout some of the leading voices on southern Hip-Hop celebrating 30 years since Dre declared “the South got something to say." Available to read FREE on Project Muse

Guys!!!! You guys!!!!! The Introduction to *Speculative Relations* has dropped!!!!! You can read it here: www.dukeupress.edu/speculative-...

i wrote about sly stone and brian wilson and the supposed mystery of genius www.vulture.com/article/bria...

Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82

So excited to share this new project: the We Help Us hotline, a phone line collecting stories of LGBTQIA mutual aid in Minnesota! chrisdstedman.substack.com/p/announcing...

Speaking of Ferris Bueller's casual racism and white entitlement, @michaelddwyer.bsky.social wrote a great piece about FBDO, Adventures in Babysitting, white flight, and Chicago's commuter class. Check it out! www.mediapolisjournal.com/2023/09/comm...

And we're back! My latest in the Chronicle is now live: "How to Promote Your Scholarly Book," ft Libra-coded advice such as "use social media" & "or don't use social media." No doubt other publishers will have lots of tidbits to add. Pls share/reach out for a PDF. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

🚨OPEN ACCESS🚨 As part of our new forum on "Media and Fascism," @cassiusa.bsky.social writes about how trans cultural production might best answer the ascendant fascist aesthetics of nonsense and sensation. There's no paywall, check it out! academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...

In case you missed it, here's last week's Popular Music Books in Process. @burrata.bsky.social spoke to @ehphd.bsky.social and Kanjana Thepboriruk about his new book, Bangkok After Dark, and the fascinating life and career of jazz pianist Maurice Rocco. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-uV...

A recording of my @iaspm-us.bsky.social Popular Music Books talk with Kanjana Thepboriruk and @ehphd.bsky.social is now up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-uV...

My book has a pub date and website!

"Bangkok After Dark" virtual book talk next Tuesday! Part of the @iaspm-us.bsky.social Popular Music Books in Process Series May 13, 5pm ET, in conversation with Elliott Powell @ehphd.bsky.social and Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk DM me for the zoom link if you'd like to join

Just announced: University of Michigan Faculty Senate resoundingly votes to support Big Ten academic mutual defense compact. 92.8% of over 3,000 votes.

If universities can’t protect our students what is even the point? thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/...

And here is a link to my legal defense fund www.gofundme.com/f/support-dr...

Here's a letter you can sign to oppose the denial of tenure, already signed by some of the writers, thinkers, professors and activists I respect the most in the world forms.gle/Rn9Rmq5fQUhq...

One blessing in this process has been consistently being affirmed. One of the external tenure reviewers, Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, shared his evaluation of my case and gave me permission to share it. His assessment was ignored. You can read the letter here drive.google.com/file/d/11fm2...

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires: uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com

Mahmoud Khalil: ICE Detains Green Card Holder over Columbia University Gaza Activism

Note this is worded in a way that suggests US citizens may be subject to it

Free Mahmoud Khalil Sending love to his loved ones

Tomorrow!! Join us for the launch of the Vieques Microsyllabus and Study Guide, a collaboration with the Archivo Histórico de Vieques. Register: tinyurl.com/viequessyllabus

Dr. Mejdulene Shomali (Williams College) will deliver the 2025 David Noble Lecture entitled, "Sahq, Dirt, Shaheed: Queer Poetics and Palestinian Resistance." 🗓️: April 3, 2025 ⏰: 4:00pm-5:30pm 📍: Best Buy Theater (Northrop) & Zoom More info: z.umn.edu/Noble2025

The AP should stop covering Trump events. Instead send those White House reporters out into the field to report on the harms and repercussions of his policies. The U.S. public never needed coverage of pseudo-events anyway.

OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.

“Universities’ rush to comply thus has not only abandoned targeted faculty and students; it has also permitted an insidious slide from DEI as “offices” to DEI as “topics” — the content and thinkability of entire fields of study.” Compliance will not protect us. truthout.org/articles/tex...

Black anti-fascists argued the Atlantic world’s history of racial violence belied the novelty of intra-European fascism. Speaking at the Second International Writers Congress in 1937, Langston Hughes declared: “We Negroes in America do not have to be told what fascism is in action. We know.”

They’re taking a sledgehammer to the already fragile nexus of academic research, healthcare access, and federal funding. The always untenable status quo is being destroyed for something far more cruel. People will lose not only their jobs but their lives.

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.