I love teaching because what do you mean I'm using the first act of L'Orfeo as an excuse to talk about Tom Holland and Zendaya's wedding with my students on Tuesday.
Paul David Flood
@pauldavidflood.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. European popular music and politics, global music histories, queer/trans studies. Writing a book on #Eurovision. 🏳️🌈 • Neurodivergent • First gen • he/him https://tinylink.net/GacOA
Exciting news to start the week: I’m now Affiliate Faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies here at UTK!
Colleagues, please encourage your interested students to apply for our M.M. in Musicology here at the University of Tennessee! We offer a competitive stipend, fee and tuition waivers, and medical insurance through our Graduate Teaching Assistantship.
The big rock outside of the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus decorated in honor of Dolly Parton.
The collective gasp of shock and excitement from my students when I told them I tried Cookout for the first time over the weekend. My Northeastern mind still cannot comprehend.
A world without Dolly doesn’t seem possible. A Tennessee without Dolly, definitely not possible.
Yesterday was our first discussion day in Grad Musicology Review and the students and I enjoyed thinking with this banger of a blog post by the late great Linda Shaver-Gleason. notanothermusichistorycliche.blogspot.com/2018/01/is-m...
Is Music a Universal Language?
Musicologist Linda Shaver-Gleason finds articles about classical music that contain debunked myths and cliché descriptions.
notanothermusichistorycliche.blogspot.com
What are some things you wish you knew in your first semester on the tenure-track/as a full-time faculty member (especially coming straight out of your PhD)?
Has anyone in music studies (maybe music theory?) written about the dembow/reggaeton beat pattern in US American or European popular music? Asking for, uh, me
The federal Office of Management and Budget has proposed a rule that will have a variety of devastating effects. Peer review should not be overruled by political appointees. If you care about this, please consider submitting a public comment before July 13. www.amsmusicology.org/omb-rule/
Submit a Public Comment on the OMB Rule - AMS
The AMS encourages the submission of public comments on the OMB's proposed revisions to the “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance.”
amsmusicology.org
Not Peppa Pig soft launching her Khia Asylum era 😔
Pop Base@popbase.tv · 2mo agoPeppa Pig shades Clairo during her Pitchfork interview: “I don't know her.”
Rocky Toooop you’ll always be home sweet hooome to meeee
Thank you to the EBU for ensuring that the arguments in my dissertation begin to age well
Eurovision Song Contest@eurovision.tv · 2mo agoHappy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Canada will make its Eurovision Song Contest debut in Bulgaria next year 🎤 Now that CBC/Radio-Canada has become a full EBU Member, Canada will be the first new country to join our lineup since Australia in 2015 🥳 www.eurovision.com/stories/cana...
BREAKING: Bebe Rexha escapes Khia Asylum, Meghan Trainor appointed new Khia Asylum final boss
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 3mo ago‘Dirty Blonde’ by Bebe Rexha debuts at #1 on the Billboard Top Dance Albums chart. It marks her first #1 album.
Eastman musicology and Darren Mueller advisee reunion at the AMS Pop Music Study Group Junior Scholar Symposium in Cleveland this past week!
And when Susan Boyle drops the song of the summer then what
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!
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/...
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Paul David Flood@pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 9mo agoJust submitted the fair copy of my dissertation! “‘United By Music’: Europeanism, Migration, and Belonging through the Eurovision Song Contest, 1990–2024.”
This plus a seminar on your discipline's most famous feuds/scandals
Ryan Turnbull@ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 4mo agoHumanities PhD programs should all have a mandatory seminar called “Our Guilty Pleasures: major disciplinary figures who were monsters but we just keep citing them” to just get all the filth out on the table and talk about it.
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...
“We want to protect it.” Why the Eurovision Song Contest matters
“We want to protect it.” Why the Eurovision Song Contest matters
eurovision.com
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
