I’ve been neglecting BlueSky posting - here’s one from 3 weeks ago - the Analytical Approaches to World Music biennial conference, where @raagameister.bsky.social and I presented our early ideas on Man Kunto Maula and raga. #musicresearch #indianmusic #musicanalysis

Setting up the LSE Music Research Network has been one of the highlights of my time at LSE - the group's members are now detailed on the MRN webpage. If you want to find experts on the social sciences of music at LSE, check it out: www.lse.ac.uk/south-asia-c... #musicresearch

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Our article “A genre-specific structure of subjective feeling in music listening” has passed 1,000 views & downloads! To learn how music and emotion studies could be more inclusive using particularist approaches, become reader 1,001! Read: doi.org/10.1177/1029... #musicresearch #musicandemotion

My personal website now has a page where people can keep up with my current projects. To find out what I'm up to these days, check out my "Current Projects" page: thomasgravesmusic.wordpress.com/current-proj... #musicresearch #EarlyCareerResearcher

I’m excited to announce that the LSE Music Research Network now has a webpage on the LSE website! We aim to bring together researchers on music from across LSE. www.lse.ac.uk/south-asia-c... #musicresearch #socialsciences

The AAM of my book chapter ‘Love from India’ is now out of embargo! This means anyone can now read a pre-publication version of my chapter, free of charge! Read here: eprints.gla.ac.uk/324673/ #IndiaPakistan #musicresearch #digitalhumanities #socialmediaresearch #musicandemotion #greenOA

I'm pleased to share that I now have a personal website. It contains information about my research background, publications, teaching, and blog posts. thomasgravesmusic.wordpress.com/about/ #musicresearch #website #EarlyCareerResearcher

Happy to be a member of the LSE Religion Scholars Network, and excited to continue to participate! www.lse.ac.uk/rgs/Scholars... #ReligiousStudies #ResearchNetwork

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My review of Jarjour's book "Syriac Chant in Aleppo" has been published in Ethnomusicology Forum. I recommend the book for anyone interested in the circulation of musical emotions, or what "mode" means in music. Read my review: doi.org/10.1080/1741... #ethnomusicology #musicresearch #bookreview

Today I presented my paper “Presentation, presence, and the present: the many meanings of hāzirī at Chishti dargahs and qawwālī performances in South Asia” at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology conference at @kingsmusic.bsky.social #ethnomusicology #musicresearch #spirituality

Exciting day! Today my copy of Music, Mortality, Memory arrived. You can buy the book here: lnkd.in/ey8qVZtZ You can read a pre-publication version of my chapter on Durham’s Open Access repository here: lnkd.in/eb4XbQMa #musicresearch #book #death #anthropology #ethnomusicology #greenopenaccess

Our article is now assigned to volume 30, issue 1! doi.org/10.1177/1029... Citation: Graves, T. A., Eerola, T., Clayton, M., Nizami, S. M., & Rafiq, M. U. (2026). A genre-specific structure of subjective feeling in music listening: What do qawwālī listeners feel? Musicae Scientiae, 30(1), 3-26.

A genre-specific structure of subjective feeling in music listening: What do qawwālī listeners feel? - Thomas A. Graves, Tuomas Eerola, Martin Clayton, Syed Murshid Nizami, Muhammad Usama Rafiq, 2026

Most studies of subjective feeling categories in musical emotion use dimensional or categorical models to describe the different kinds of emotions induced by mu...

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Had a great time yesterday at #OxFOS talking about my work with Annayah Prosser and Madeleine Pownall on open reaearch and positivism creep! Lots of interesting stuff on open qualitative research and AI. Photos by Domi Smithson and Annayah Prosser #openresearch #library #Oxford

My chapter "Death, Jubilation, and Juxtaposition in Qawwālī" is now published in "Music, Mortality, Memory", edited by Matthew McCullough and Douglas Davies. Publisher version: brill.com/display/book... AAM available on Durham's research repository: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4989911

I’m excited to see Laufey in concert next month, and couldn’t agree more with her Grammy speech. We must value our music and arts education system. It can’t take any more cuts. youtu.be/ZfJjDz3RQnY?... To read my full perspective, see my LSE HE blog post from last year: lnkd.in/ekrFZz36 #Grammys

This year’s British Forum for Ethnomusicology (@bfeadmin.bsky.social) conference programme dropped today, and I’m delighted to be sharing a session with my long-time friend, singing teacher, and colleague Budhaditya Bhattacharyya (@ragameister.bsky.social) #ethnomusicology #conference #music

What makes qawwali such a powerful musical tradition? My new blog post for LSE South Asia blog explores what kinds of emotions people feel when they listen to qawwali at Sufi shrines in India: blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20... #music #research #blog #spirituality #emotion #qawwali #southasia

What role does culture play in how we classify emotions we feel with music listening? Get the view from one musical tradition (qawwali) in our new article doi.org/10.1177/1029... #culture #music #emotion #research #musicpsychology #crosscultural #Indianmusic

A genre-specific structure of subjective feeling in music listening: What do qawwālī listeners feel? - Thomas A Graves, Tuomas Eerola, Martin Clayton, Syed Murshid Nizami, Muhammad Usama Rafiq, 2025

Most studies of subjective feeling categories in musical emotion use dimensional or categorical models to describe the different kinds of emotions induced by mu...

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What emotions does music evoke beyond Western genres? A data-driven study of qawwālī (South Asian Sufi music) shows that listeners report ethical/virtuous feelings, spiritual love, and trance. Culture & the construction of emotions matter. doi.org/10.1177/1029... #musicscience #musicpsych #emotion

A genre-specific structure of subjective feeling in music listening: What do qawwālī listeners feel? - Thomas A Graves, Tuomas Eerola, Martin Clayton, Syed Murshid Nizami, Muhammad Usama Rafiq, 2025

Most studies of subjective feeling categories in musical emotion use dimensional or categorical models to describe the different kinds of emotions induced by mu...

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Do different musics create different emotions? Now published: the first quantitative article on the South Asian Sufi music qawwali to be published in a major music psychology journal! Read the article open access here: lnkd.in/g7Dxpw3Z Data are available here: lnkd.in/gQK2RCJp #musicandemotion

Two new publications in one week! If you’re interested in the arts and the current UK universities crisis check out my blog post: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat... If you are interested in what open research means for non-positivist researchers, read our preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

We overlook music departments at our peril - LSE Higher Education

As more university music departments face the axe, Thomas Graves points out what we’re all missing when we fail to recognise the unique value of music education With UK higher education (HE) in financ...

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New preprint with Thomas Graves and @annayahprosser.bsky.social: "Getting Creeped Out? Open Science, Qualitative Methods, and the Dangers of Positivism Creep". osf.io/preprints/so...

With the news that Nottingham is just the latest uni to close music courses, @thomasgraves.bsky.social explores why music degrees seem to be such an easy target for the axe - and why that's a tragedy blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

Excited to share my latest paper with Martin Clayton and @tuomaseerola.bsky.social on cross-cultural differences in rhythm pattern perception, focusing on Hindustani (North Indian) musical rhythms. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #musicpsych @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social

The Effect of Rhythm Cycle Length, Cultural Familiarity, and Musicianship on Learning and Recall of North Indian Rhythmic Patterns

The study explores the effect of the length of rhythmic cycles, familiarity, musicianship, and rhythmic structure on the perception of long rhythmic cycles of North Indian Classical Music (NICM). W...

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Want to be part of a world first? My wonderful and very talented friend Dr Matthew Warren is composing the world’s first Manx language opera, and needs your help to get it done! gogetfunding.com/caillagh-the... #worldfirst #endangeredlanguages #opera

Caillagh – The First Manx Language Opera

Help bring the word’s first Manx language opera to life! – Cur bioys da’n chied opera sy theihll ayns Gaelg! My name is Matthew. I’m a composer and writer living on the Isle of Man and I’d like to tel...

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The University of Nottingham is the latest UK HEI to propose suspending the music department. Another in a long line of attacks on university music. Don’t let them get away with it! Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/stop-the-s... #university #UKHE #music

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Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham

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Delighted to share our latest research on consonance. We asked participants from India and UK to rate how “tense” different harmonic intervals sound. We found that musicians across both cultures agreed almost perfectly on which intervals feel tense or relaxed, however, ....

Academic publishing is now a marketised system where charging £9000 for a single paper isn't beyond the pale. A new book by Samuel A. Moore proposes an alternative: a commons-based, scholar-led approach. Read a #review by @thomasgraves.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? - Impact of Social Sciences

Publishing Beyond examines the ills of a marketised system of academic publishingand outlines how commons-based approaches could be an alternative.

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💥New: Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? ✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org #OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms

Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? - Impact of Social Sciences

Publishing Beyond examines the ills of a marketised system of academic publishingand outlines how commons-based approaches could be an alternative.

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This week I facilitated a workshop on Open Research for post-fieldwork Anthropology PhD students at LSE. It was really great to hear about their research projects and discuss scholar-led publishing, open access, repositories, and the ethics of data sharing. #openresearch #anthropology #ethnography

Really interesting! Not sure i’d want to be responsible for participants having needles stuck in their throat, but the data is bound to be fascinating youtu.be/JkBV8GoPWXY?...

The Science Behind Vocal Distortion: Will Ramos of Lorna Shore

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