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The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️

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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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What a fabulous start to the week: Happy publication day to Stomp Off, Let's Go by Ricky Riccardi! Enormous congratulations to Ricky on his second Grammy win and recent appearance on Fresh Air! And happy birthday to Lil Hardin Armstrong, who inspired the release date! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Catching up on my podcasts today with this @npr.org interview on #LouisArmstrong. Hats off to Ricky Riccardi (and his OUP editor @theweaknessinme.bsky.social)! #jazz #npr #freshair

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A starter pack for the academic field of ethnomusicology… some great follows in there. kindly created by @balarag.bsky.social go.bsky.app/9c1wupA

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For those at #AAA2024Tampa - and anyone interested in anti-capitalist movements, crowds and protest, music in sport, and sound studies - consider including Insurgent Fandom: An Ethnography of Crowds and Unruly Sounds by Max Jack in your post-conference orders/planning! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Hey folks, if you know of any Black, Indigenous, or Latinx Sociology postdocs or those finishing Sociology phds Spring/Summer 2025, dm me or email me. For a symposium of early career scholars of color.

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🎵 Calling all early career ethnomusicology and jazz studies folks: I'm holding open office hours from 2pm - 4pm ET today, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. Please join if you have questions about book proposals, OUP's review process, or anything else post-conference season! 🔗Link: tinyurl.com/LY-Office-Ho...

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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the lives of trans people killed in acts of anti-trans violence. Black transgender women, in particular, are disproportionately killed in the U.S., according to deaths tracked by the Human Rights Campaign.

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I've been waiting YEARS for this...While job hunting in 2015, I attended tapings of daytime talk shows, including the Dr. Oz Show (see bottom left corner of photo below) Can confirm that he's into universal healthcare - all of us walked away with a free bottle of in-shower moisturizer. Go, health!

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Voting is now open for the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year! It's a good batch and difficult to pick a winner. If anything, this inspires me to entitle my (imaginary) first book of poetry Rot, Slop, and Lore. corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...

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Happy Pub Day to Martial Sound: Drumming Empowerment in Diasporic Chinese Kung Fu and Lion Dance by Colin P. McGuire! Pick up a copy for 30% off as part of #SEM_2024 with code exsem24. 🥁🎶 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Two more days to celebrate titles from our #SEM_2024 list! Today, we spotlight the OA title Acoustics of Empire: Sound Media, and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. by Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay. Congratulations to the volume editors & contributors! tinyurl.com/Acoustics-of...

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Continuing the focus on Hip Hop, we celebrate the publication of the OA title Digital Flows: Online Hip Hop Music and Culture by Steven Gamble, available just in time for #SEM_2024 and Hip Hop History Month in November. Congratulations, Dr. Gamble! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Celebrating another 2024 publication for #SEM_2024! Congratulations to Jonathan E. Calvillo for the publication of In the Time of Sky-Rhyming: How Hip Hop Resonated in Brown Los Angeles, which one blurber says is the "missing link" in Hip Hop studies. Now 30% off with code exsem24! oxford.ly/3N7mnkW

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Tonight at #SEM_2024: Join the 16B "Interculturality III" panel from 7:00pm - 9:00pm EST to catch Prof. Andy McGraw, author of Music as Ethics: Stories from Virginia (2023), which you might recognize from last year's conference! Now 30% off with code exsem24. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Now available for pre-order: Music and Dance as Everyday South Asia, edited by Sarah L. Morelli and Zoe C. Sherinian, which blurbers describe as "a tour de force on South Asian music and dance," and "an extremely valuable resource for teaching." Ships in Dec. 2024! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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#SEM_2024 celebrations continue with Insurgent Fandom: An Ethnography of Crowds and Unruly Sounds by Max Jack, which offers a behind-the-scenes look at Ultra and the political dissent that undergirds crowd actions like collective singing and lighting marine flares. tinyurl.com/Insurgent-Fa...

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Today's final feature is The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing, edited by Esther M. Morgan-Ellis and Kay Norton. Congratulations to the volume editors and contributors! Now 30% off in print and available on Oxford Academic via institutional subscription. #SEM_2024 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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What do the power rock band Aegis, multimedia superstar Vice Ganda, queer zombie film Zombadings, and glocalized movement P-Pop have in common? Find out in Pop Convergence: Musical Multimedia in Manila by James Gabrillo. Congratulations, Dr. Gabrillo! 🎙️🎵🎬☀️ #SEM_2024 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Does the word "thesis" send a shiver down your spine? Fear not! Postgraduate Research in Music: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Thesis by Victoria Rogers offers practical exercises, seminar topics, assessment tasks, and reading lists to support your research. #SEM_2024 tinyurl.com/Postgraduate...

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Next, we celebrate Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance: The Voice Extended by Casey Schoenberger, which employs cognitive humanities to understand the connections between music, author networks, writing, and other material culture. tinyurl.com/Casey-Schoen... #SEM_2024

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For the second week of #SEM_2024, we have a suite of new publications to celebrate! The first is Swinglines: Rhythm, Timing, and Polymeter in Musical Phrasing by Fernando Benadon, published in the Oxford Studies in Music Theory series. Congratulations, Dr. Benadon! tinyurl.com/Benadon-Swin...

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This statement is as true today as it was upon publication of ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid by Adriana N. Helbig. Join tomorrow's President's Roundtable (10A) to hear Dr. Helbig and other speakers discuss Care, Conflict, and Commitment in Ethnomusicological Work. #SEM_2024

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Still filling your #SEM_2024 Sunday schedule and loved Sounds, Ecologies, Musics (2023)? You can catch volume editors Aaron S. Allen & @jefftoddtiton.bsky.social, and contributors Jennifer Post, Chad S.Hamill/čnaq'ymi, and Denise Von Glahn at the 10C "Whither Eco-Ethnomusicology?" session tomorrow.

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Finally, we celebrate Music, Encounter, Togetherness by Nicholas Cook! Cook outlines a relational approach to music that places listeners at the heart of the research and promotes a holistic understanding of the role of improvisation, performance, and textuality in music. tinyurl.com/MusicEncount...

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Next, a spotlight on The Cantigas de Santa Maria: Power and Persuasion at the Alfonsine Court by Henry T. Drummond, which blurbers praise as "a deeply humanized and historicized account of the Cantigas;" "a vital point of reference;" and a "groundbreaking study." tinyurl.com/Drummond-Can...

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Happy Day 3 of #SEM_2024! Today we spotlight Jazz Migrations: Movement as Place Among New York Musicians by Ofer Gazit, which offers an inside look at NYC's migrant jazz scene and calls for a reconsideration of genre, senses of belonging, and identity in American music. tinyurl.com/Gazit-Jazz-M...

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Today's final installment nicely befits this year's virtual/remote format. In Spectacular Listening: Music and Disability in the Digital Age, Byrd McDaniel shows how listening-as-performance can be both an opportunity for play and a critical practice. academic.oup.com/book/55795?s... #SEM_2024

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Next, we celebrate God Gave Rock & Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music by @drleahpayne.bsky.social, which Publishers Weekly described as a "comprehensive and fascinating survey of a much-maligned yet influential musical genre." Now 30% off! global.oup.com/academic/pro... #SEM24

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Throughout #SEM24, we'll celebrate books published in the past year. The first is The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures, edited by Harris M. Berger, Friedlind Riedel, and David VanderHamm. Congratulations to the volume editors and contributors! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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Happy first day of the 2024 Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting! Use code AAFLYG6 at checkout for a 30% discount on new publications: tinyurl.com/OUP-Ethnomus... We also invite you to browse recent research on OUP's Ethnomusicology hub: t.co/ewVIdTKKbu

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If you’re feeling stuck with your book writing, may I suggest dictating your answers to this template in a recording or journaling by hand in a cute notebook? Take yourself to a fun coffee shop (or just your couch) and instead of writing your book, write about your book.

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