Pop music scholar + feminist = PhDiva, University of Virginia. Writing a book about the history of sentimental pop songs. #FirstGen. Fashion & style. She/her.
Cork, Ireland
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“Oh, Lady, Touch Thy Lute Again” and “Listen to My Wild Guitar” are the most intriguing songs in The Parlour Songster, offering an early pop history of guitar sex double entendre. #guitars #musichistory #popscholar
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For info on which #popcon2023 events are being live streamed today & tomorrow visit linktr.ee/popconorg
I’ll be talking about home songs and domesticity @UCDSchoolMusic tomorrow at 5pm. Free and open to interested parties if you’re in the area!
—we consider how love songs invite us to listen—Communally? Anti-oppressively (Alisha Lola Jones, 2021)?—across boundaries as well as within them.
Get in touch at [email protected]!
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others sound out love as a verb (bell hooks, 2000) and as pleasurable political resistance (adrienne maree brown, 2019). Challenging simplistic yet still familiar binaries of private/public; sentiment/reason; feminine/masculine; and care/justice–among others
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This panel listens to an array of historically and culturally diverse love songs, querying—and also queering—what love sounds like in public. While many love songs seem to produce or promote normative ideals and feelings,
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And yet, love as song—and sonic—terrain remains an underanalyzed topic within popular music studies, specifically, and within cultural studies, more broadly. Have people really “had enough of silly love songs” (Linda and Paul McCartney, 1976)?
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Love songs permeate public life. From the grocery store to the dance floor, most listeners agree that love pervades pop song as one of the most so-called universal themes engaged by songwriters and performers alike (de Laat, 2019).
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Hey lovers! Any pop scholars interested in collaborating with me and Dr. Charissa Granger on an American Studies panel on love songs? Conference is 2-5 November in Montreal. Deadline is 1 Feb (soon)!
Proposed title & overview: Silly Love Songs? What Love Sounds Like in Public
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📣📣We are delighted to welcome Dr Ann-Marie Hanlon (virtually) for her lecture:"Gendered Experiences of the Irish Music Industry" as part of our ongoing Fuaim lecture series. This Thurs 24th Nov at 11am. Join us in person in the Ó Riada Hall or email: [email protected] for link.
Tip: Google maps suggests an estimated $60-75 USD Lyft from the airport into New Orleans. Taxi stand was a fixed $36. If your institution is picking up the tab and/or you’re permanently employed, please do as others are and offer to share! #musicon22
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He scoffs: “Pop music is shite!”
Then continues: “That wasn’t pop. That was indie! I’m sorry 4 U.” We part ways. Reader, the band closed the show with an encore singalong of “Without You.” Couldn’t make it up if I tried. Apparently I’m researching even when I’m not. #poptimist
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Rockism lives! Leaving Angel Olsen gig, white man, 60ish, leans in: “You know what I’d do if I were YOUR age???” I did not ask, but pls, do go on. “I’d move to London to learn about REAL music!” he announces. I pause to consider my next move: “I’m 42 and a lecturer in pop music.”
Still another month to get your abstracts in for IASPM 2023 in Minneapolis: Conference call for papers | IASPM iaspm.net/iaspm-2023-confere…
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Calling all New/Local bands in Cork! 🎷📻
UCC98.3fm are now looking for some new music to share on our station and broadcast to our thousands of listeners around Cork and beyond!🎺
Do you have what it takes for your music to be played on our shows? -
We’ll be livestreaming tomorrow’s FUAIM Lecture via the Music at UCC YouTube channel for those outside of Cork!
Join us in Ó Riada Hall, Music Department, UCC this Thursday, 13th October at 11am for the next speaker in the FUAIM lecture series, Dr. Lijuan Qian, senior lecturer in Music @UCC. The lecture is titled "Hip Hop in China and Its Multi-Dimensional Narratives."
All welcome!👏👏
