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If you're like me, wintertime music education conferences put a spring in your step. So, a quick plug for our latest titles in music education - and our TMEA discount! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Calling all #muscians, #musiceducators, #musicologists, music #researchers / #professors, & anyone who uses books on music: please consider filling out OUP's survey so we can better understand how to deliver print and digital resources that meet your needs! survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90717498/...

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Are you a #musician, #musiceducator, #musicologist, or a music #researcher or #professor? We are eager to hear from you in this brief survey about how we can deliver print and digital resources that meet your needs. survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90717498/...

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Highlights from AMS! You may spot yourself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnkA...

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What the literary agency did not hear on the phone call just now was the handyman repairing the freezer seemingly using a revolutionary war era canon and the cat wanting to be part of it. #workfromhome

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Attn Beatles fans: www.salon.com/2024/09/30/g...

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Marriage of Figaro on Little Island. So good!

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Read a manuscript, will you?

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The Bette Midler playlist we all need. blog.oup.com/2024/07/but-...

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Jury duty frivolity crocheted by yours truly.

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Fab article - free! - on transgender punk musicians and what their memoires tell us: Jayne County, Laura Jane Grace, and the HerStory of Transgender Punks in America | Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

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How did music stump Charles Darwin? Miriam Piilonen explains in this fascinating NPR piece: www.wamc.org/show/the-bes...

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OUP quilt made by coworkers more talented than I.

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Editor Focus: Alejandro Madrid on Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music and exciting new directions for the series www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wN_...

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You're going to love ON BETTE MIDLER: www.publishersweekly.com/9780197668320

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"...humanities majors have much better employment experience than those w/o college degrees, that their compensation is similar to other college graduates (w/ exception of engineering), and that their unemployment rate is comparable to other majors..." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/12/14/h...

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Nice review of BACH AGAINST MODERNITY in the Wall Street Journal. Congratulations to Michael Marissen: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

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If you enjoyed THE HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE, you'll love RHYTHM MAN: CHICK WEBB AND THE BEAT THAT CHANGED AMERICA: blog.oup.com/2023/12/chic...

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Congratulations to Stephanie Crease on RHYTHMN MAN: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023.

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Have you read BROADWAY BODIES: A CRITICAL HISTORY OF CONFORMITY yet? A 2023 NPR Book We Love: apps.npr.org/best-books/?...

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Writing a book proposal? Try reframing "This book fulfills a need for writing on X..." as "This book answers [scholarly] demand for writing that answers the question(s)..."

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A preview of our AMS-SMT videos: twitter.com/OUPMusic/sta...

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Hearing the Great Lakes vowel shift in the announcements at the Denver airport. Instead of /æ/ in [æt] gate 37 we get /æə/, and instead of /ɔ:/ as in [ɔ:l] passengers on board, we get /ɑ/. My hypothesis is that these migrate from airport hubs. This sounds very much like O'Hare.

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Looking for good reading on your travels? Download an OUP Open Access publication like _Mario Lavista: Mirrors of Sounds_ and _Immaculate Sounds: The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain_. No sign-ups required. Check out www.oup.com/us for details.

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What is that sudden chill in the air? Whence these mysterious icicles? I am about to check a bag.

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Getting ready for the AMS-SMT conference? OUP authors: stop by the OUP media hub and share about your recently published book in a brief video interview. Contact your editor for details.

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our boy @zachschonfeld.bsky.social at the Strand talking about his new 📕 on early Nic Cage global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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