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Back at Uni Helsinki after 2 years at Utrecht University (NL). Picking up my work in the research project: www.suoni.fi/en/music-sch.... Book coming out this year! #musicresearch #activism #researchethics #musicandracism #musicology #ethnomusicology #popularmusicstudies
January 29, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Join us 10/13, 5-6:30 pm at Brown for “FIGHT SONGS: A Brief History of Controversial Pop Music,” with The New Yorker writer Kelefa Sanneh, on how music not only unifies but divides, and what our arguments about music really mean. buff.ly/go7j1g5 #PopMusic #MusicCriticism #PopularMusicStudies
September 23, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Pascal Rudolph / Daniel Suer / Barbara Hornberger (Hrsg.), #Popmusik​forschung. Zehn Perspektiven auf #BillieEilish (via @transcript-verlag.bsky.social) #OpenAccess #PopularMusicStudies #Musikwissenschaft #Popkultur
Popmusikforschung
Ein Song, zehn Perspektiven: Die Vielfalt der Popmusikforschung anhand von Billie Eilishs »Bad Guy«.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Courtney Love’s America’s Sweetheart: 1990s-Style Guitar Swinging at the Start of the New Millennium by James How doi.org/10.1080/1940...

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May 19, 2026 at 10:03 AM
In Taiwan’s Indigenous fishing communities, music isn’t just sung—it resonates through machines, memories, and shared spaces of belonging 🚢🎶
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July 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
New in Riffs | OPEN 🎸

"Some Strings, Many Affordances: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Being an Electric Bass Guitarist" by Dominic Kingsford-Ross

🔗 Read the full article:
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May 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
April 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
An English-language scholarly overview and sample of my book David Bowie: The Man Who Sang Nothing (Iwanami Shoten, 2021) is now openly available: synopsis, complete contents, introduction, and conclusion.

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David Bowie: The Man Who Sang Nothing — English-Language Scholarly Overview and Sample
This record presents an English-language scholarly overview and sample of Jun Tanaka’s monograph David Bowie: The Man Who Sang Nothing, originally published in Japanese by Iwanami Shoten in 2021. It c...
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September 2, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Sad news: Philip #Tagg, probably one of the most important popular music scholars, passed away today 😥
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Philip Tagg - Wikipedia
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May 9, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Estamos aceitando artigos em português, espanhol ou inglês!
We're accepting papers in portuguese, spanish, or english!
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#GenderStudies
September 9, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Check out Sam Riley’s “I Swear I Heard This… Noise Floor” in the new issue of Riffs.

“I kept hearing it. At first it was welcome. The harsh amplitudes of full sonic spectrum overloaded the speakers in the hall.”

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Sam Riley
Citation: Sam Riley (2025) “I Swear I Heard This… Noise Floor“, Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music 8(2): 31-32.
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September 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
New from Riffs: Volume 8, Issue 2 — Check out Craig Hamilton’s “I Swear I Heard This…”

“I remember exactly where I was, and what I was doing. I was in the kitchen, washing up.”


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Craig Hamilton
Citation: Craig Hamilton (2025) “I Swear I Heard This…", Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music 8(2): 26-28.
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September 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
New from Riffs: I Swear I Heard This… Swear I Hear This Ghost. Like, For Real.

Saxophonist, promoter, and researcher, Lee Griffiths revisits Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath!

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Lee Griffiths
Citation: Lee Griffiths (2025) “I Swear I Heard This… Swear I Hear This Ghost. Like, For Real“, Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music 8(2):…
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August 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
New from Riffs Journal Vol. 8, Issue 2

✨ I Swear I Heard This… Discord Brag ✨
by Ed McKeon

“@433 #IswearIheardthis exhibition. no, it was a gig… the floor was vibrating, the sound system was lit… the whole space was buzzing.”

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Ed McKeon
Citation: Ed McKeon (2025) “I Swear I Heard This… Discord Brag“, Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music 8(2): 9-11.
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August 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM