medievaliste.bsky.social
independent scholar/itinerant professor, medievalist, musicologist, historian. phd from UCLA. british american. dog person.
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I saw one the other day and it was thrilling
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Okay lads, no more self effacing in my menchies
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This dude wanted an expert to drop everything and give him citations to prove that French composers are on par with Austrian composers, a premise that is so stupid that it manages to overshadow the entitlement
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Please get the boxed cake mix next and report back
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oh no, I thought we left Brahms discourse back at the old place
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You are literally lecturing a highly regarded music historian, fyi.
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suspicious
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This administration will come for the whole LGBTQIA community next. They are throwing trans people under the bus for nothing.
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"if we don't throw marginalized people under the bus, we may lose our jobs" is not inspiring nor admirable
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Yes, it was fucking great—but it was also three hours, at night, and very old school. No powerpoint, just a library cart full of hardcopy scores and a magnetic professor who could reduce an orchestral score at the keyboard. RIP Prof. Richard Burke.
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Same. I was really heartened to see how often it was the white cis men in class leading the charge, too
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are there a few transphobic jerks in each cohort? sure. but they’re not the majority.
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Jesus take the fucking wheel
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Thank you. Please keep fighting.
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Hell yeah
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Dude, this sucks
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People hate government jobs in general. They think it's waste. But they hate losing the services those jobs provide.
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An accurate description of the version of Music History II I took during my masters
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Any time!
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Oh! Is it Linda Nochlin's "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"
www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Noch...
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Nvm, that’s not it. Was it a musicologist?
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Nancy Reich?
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I thought it was somewhere in between BoJo’s Covid parties and Prince Andrew’s Pizza Express alibi but I like yours better
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Wash your hands
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If anyone else wants to torture themselves, the interview in question was at the end of this morning’s BBC Newshour podcast
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Journo: What is your reaction to Trump’s approach to Ukraine?
Interviewee 1: *something about Iowa*
Journo: And how about you, interviewee 2? You emigrated from Europe, does that affect your perspective?
Interviewee 2: Ummmmmmm