Ruth Opara, PhD @ruthsie.bsky.social Author, Musical Moments of Motherhood: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/musical-moments-of-motherhood/paper. Educator. Performer.
Music. Africa and African Diaspora.
Gender. Fashion.
Columbia University
Benjamin Pachter @benpachter.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, musician, father and husband. Enjoying life in Tokyo, researching taiko, Disney, and how we teach about Japanese culture.
Avid fan of Disney theme parks, video games, and plenty more.
Rick Clark @rickclark.bsky.social Creative: including Music Supervisor (Dark Winds, Greenleaf, Hell On Wheels, Hap & Leonard), Writer, Songwriter, Producer, and host of WYXR-FM weekly show, Air-Conditioned. Music, Movies/TV, Books, Photography, Travel, anti-trump, No porn, marketing, DMs
Esbjörn Wettermark @esbwet.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, musician, educator
Katie Brown (she/her) @kayteebrn.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist
Drummer
Marimbist
Micah Ling 🌰 @micahjling.bsky.social folklorist - old-time musician - pie maker - textile enthusiast
💼 Michigan Traditional Arts Program
📚 Indiana University Dept. of Folklore & Ethnomusicology
University of Michigan Music Library @umichmusiclibrary.bsky.social Part of the U-M Library, the Music Library supports performers, teachers, and researchers from around the world. Visit us to explore our extensive collection of musical scores, books, recordings, historical sheet music, and more.
www.lib.umich.edu
Dr. Kim Ramstedt @kimramstedt.bsky.social ✦ Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland
# music, media, ethnography, identity, socialjustice, clubculture, musicology, ethnomusicology
...also educator, community organizer, DJ, musician and former radio host
➤ https://tinyurl.com/ramstkim
Kennedi Johnson @kennedialexisj.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist 🎵 Black Studies 🖤 Teacher of Tiny Humans 👩🏽🏫 ATLien 🍑
@ncndwr.bsky.social @ncndwr.bsky.social ethnomusicology PhD | sound, music, and Buddhism in Japan & transnational circulation | technology, media, and religious studies
Ioannis Tsioulakis @itsioulakis.bsky.social He/him. Ethnomusicologist and musician in Belfast. Researches popular music and labour, in Greece and Northern Ireland.
Corinne Forstot-Burke @corinne-isabel.bsky.social Head of Music Library at UMich. Lover of books, music, dance, art, movement, philosophy, wit, reason, equity, love, and nature.
Kati Kallio @katikallio.bsky.social Folklore, oral poetry, anthropology, history, environment. Runo-songs, regilaul, Kalevalaic poetry. Research Fellow at the Finnish Literature Society & University of Helsinki: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kati-kallio. Photo: Emma Suominen.
Dr. Michael T Balonek @drmichaeltbalonek.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, Professor, Musician.
Floris Schuiling @florisschuiling.bsky.social Musicologist at Utrecht University, currently leading a research project on Improvised Music and Decolonisation, investigating entanglements of jazz, free improvisation, whiteness and coloniality.
Sarah Cooper @sarahecooper.bsky.social Music PhD student at the University of Bristol researching pop music and transness at drag shows 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
• co-supervised by the University of Exeter and funded by the SWWDTP •
• they/them •
Alan Karass @gnomeking.bsky.social Library Director at US Naval Academy | ethnomusicologist (music of Tunisia) | recorder player | fledgling saz player | gnome enthusiast | student of Rumi and Ibn ‘Arabi | fan of baba ghanoush
kyracatures @kyracatures.bsky.social Award Winning Author | Digital ethnomusicologist | Black Feminist | TED speaker | Associate Professor | Principal Qual Researcher: YouTube Trends and Insights | Facebook Expert Witness | Singer-songwriter/Jazz Vocalist
Melvin L. Butler @melvinbutler.bsky.social Musician and Musicologist 🎵
Saxophonist with Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band
Associate Dean, Office of Academic Enhancement
Associate Professor, Dept. of Musicology
University of Miami
Olivia Bloechl @livbloechl.bsky.social Musicologist, keyboardist, lute player, tanguera, sewist, mad witchy gardener, Wisco grrl, neurodivergent, queer af. She/her
Improvising Across Boundaries @improvacrossb.bsky.social A four year collaborative research project on women + gender minority improvising musicians on the island of Ireland. Funded by Research Ireland and hosted at UCD
Dr. Rebekah E. Moore @rebekah-e-moore.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, writer, athlete, tree hugger
Rachel Harris @rachelaharris.bsky.social Ethnomusicology, sound studies, heritage, Uyghur expressive and religious culture, https://www.maqamproject.uk
Suzel Reily @sreily.bsky.social Professora de etnomusicologia no Instituto de Artes da Unicamp
Sonic Anthropology @sonicanthropology.bsky.social Tom Miller
Anthropologist / Writer / Curator / Radio Producer / Musician / Professor
Karen M. Cook @cooksterkc.bsky.social Musician, Medievalist, Gamer, Historian, Skeptic, Lover of Pop Cultures Past & Present. Stayin' alive. She/Her. [All views my own; RT/♥ ≠ agreement.]
@shahwarkm.bsky.social @shahwarkm.bsky.social PhD candidate @UCLA
http://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/people/shahwar…
Ethnographer of music, sound and Muslim belonging in South Asia.
Proud alumna of JNU and JU
Steve Wilford @steve-wilford.bsky.social Music academic at the University of Cambridge and Wolfson College Cambridge
Eric Whitmer @ewhitmer.bsky.social Musicologist and Occasional Academic. Musicology, Disability Studies, & Digital Studies. Queer + AuDHD. They/He
Lab Member - Digital Accessible Futures — part of The DISCO Network
(@disconetwork.bsky.social)
Ph.D. Pre-Candidate @umichsmtd.bsky.social
Melissa Goldsmith @melissagoldsmith.bsky.social Musicologist, Music Producer, Composer, Poet/Lyricist, Writer
My creative endeavors will be posted here (soon). For regular posts and much more frequent absurdities, go to @holylibrarians.bsky.social
Erik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social Associate professor of musicology at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Former saxophone player, always philosophy reader, currently popular music fan (and more).
John Marvin Scott @johnmarvinscott.bsky.social Music & Sound Educator, Scholar & Improviser
🎸☕️🎵🌱
Meri Kytö @merikyto.eurosky.social University lecturer in Musicology @ University of Turku, Associate professor in Auditory culture studies, Chair of Finnish Musicological Society (MTS), äänimaisemahommia since 1999, and hand weaving <3 FI/EN/TR
https://users.utu.fi/mlkyto/
Suyash Kumar Neupane @phdumplings.bsky.social Ph.D. in Folklore and Ethnomusicology (minor: Food Anthropology).
🇳🇵Nepal🇳🇵
IASPM UK and Ireland @iaspmuki.bsky.social Official account, UK & Ireland branch at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) iaspm.org.uk
• Posts and resposts are not endorsements
• Need help or have a question? Visit our website to contact the relevant committee member
Amanda Krause @studylistening.bsky.social Dr/she/her
Senior Lecturer (Psychology), @JCUCHS @JCU
#MusicScience - everyday music #listening and #WellBeing
current @AusMusPsySoc.bsky.social president
University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social University of Illinois Press / Publisher of scholarly and regional trade books and journals since 1918
Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social The latest news on the #SoundStudies and #MusicBooks we're publishing for lecturers, students, researchers & music lovers. 🎶
www.bloomsbury.com/academic/music-sound-studies
Ukraine Decolonial Studies Network @udsn.bsky.social Interdisciplinary platform for decolonial thought on Ukrainian culture and history.
https://ukraine-decolonial.org
Dr Cinzia Yates 🇮🇲🏴 @manxinwales.bsky.social Research Development professional, Ethnomusicologist (Celtic/trad music), probably definitely autistic, Manx traddy/muso, feminist lefty (but not loony), Xennial, Welsh Indy, punk, with a soft spot for cats. Hiraeth for Ellan Vannin. Afraid for humanity...
Maria Quirke @mariaquirke.bsky.social PhD student of Ethnomusicology at UCC. Bookbinder. ADHDer. Hiding from a pile of unwashed dishes. she/her
Rutgers University Press @rutgersupress.bsky.social Rutgers University Press is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge to scholars, students, and the general reading public. The Press reflects and extends the University’s core mission of research, instruction, and service.
New Tides Platform @newtidesp.bsky.social Home of Migrant Dramaturgies Network | Independent organisation (EU/UK) | Cross-cultural exchanges in performing arts
www.newtidesplatform.org
griologist.prof @senecavaught.bsky.social Community-engaged scholar working at the intersection of race, culture, and policy; humanities advocate; study abroad wanderer; student success scientist; historian by training, interdisciplinarian by design.
Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social 🎙️ Traditional Blues Artist | 🎓 Applied Folklorist | 📚 Ethnomusicologist | 🗞️ Publisher of The African American Folklorist
Founder of Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation — conserving Black traditional music, folklore & cultural memory.
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Meghan Drury @mdrury.bsky.social Academic developmental editor | Adjunct instructor of writing, gender studies, and media studies | She/her | booksmartediting.com
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) @alanranta.bsky.social Rants about things, usually music, sometimes for money. Bylines seen in PopMatters, Bandcamp, Georgia Straight and Exclaim! Longtime juror for the Polaris Prize and Juno Awards.
Mixes & Musings: https://linktr.ee/alanranta
ⓘ this user is woke
Paul Prescott @paulrprescott.bsky.social Co-editor of the oral history book about Canadian punk rock band NoMeansNo: From Obscurity To Oblivion published by PM Press.
Editor of Ready To Die For Xiu Xiu.
PhD in Engineering.
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1505
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Jaye Regalado @the-selenian.bsky.social Musicologist. Koto Player.
MA Music History, University of Washington.
BM Musicology, University of the Philippines Diliman.
Gabriel Lonsberry @glonsber.bsky.social Shakespeare professor and theater historian into court masques. Experimental music obsessive. Atlanta.
Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social Author, *The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture* (UC Press 2018)
Doomscrolling glumly since about 2015
Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social Music journalist, historian, archivist, crabby old punk rock lady. Music columnist @ salon.com | writing @ jukeboxgraduate.com
clips @ https://carynrose.contently.com/
She / her | current Detroiter, forever New Yorker, child of the Garden State
Brian Fairley @brianfairley.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Pitt. (Ethno)musicologist, media historian, former dramaturg.
Bradley Morgan @bradleymorgan.bsky.social Author of “Frank Zappa’s America” (LSU Press, ‘25); “U2: Until the End of the World” (Gemini, ‘25); & “U2’s The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America” (Backbeat, ‘21). Interviewer for the New Books Network. Music film fest director for CHIRP Radio
Sonic Field @sonicfield.bsky.social Research platform for sound, listening, and audio.
🐚 sonicfield.org
🪷 listening.md
Jilll Rogers @musicolojill.bsky.social
Nick Tochka @nicktochka.bsky.social Ethnomusicology, popular music studies, creative nonfiction. Eastern Europe / Albania, United States, and Multicultural Australia.
Paul Allen Sommerfeld @perfectlypongo.bsky.social Musicologist, librarian, corgi enthusiast. Views are my own.
Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of music history at Wayne State University. 19th/20th-century France, sound studies, histories of (sight)reading, street music. Author, Fanfare for a City (UC Press, 2024). Non-ac words in Exacting Clam, Gargoyle, Argyle, Flame Literary
Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social musician, scholar, assistant professor of music theory
Kendra Salois @ksalois.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, introvert, freeze-head. Author of Values that Pay: Complicity, Sincerity, and Hip Hop in Contemporary Moroccan Life (UC Press).
University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social Innovative, thoughtful, digitally-forward books in partnership with Michigan Publishing and Fulcrum.
https://press.umich.edu/
Sara Jo Cohen @thunderrhoda.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Acquiring Editor for music, theater, performance studies, and dance at University of Michigan Press (@uofmpress.bsky.social). Mother, baker, cat person, slow lap swimmer.
UCD School of Music @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social UCD School of Music, Celebrating over 100 Years of Music at University College Dublin, Ireland
Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social Assistant Professor for Digital Music Philology and Music Theory at Würzburg University, Germany www.fabian-moss.de
Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social I study popular music and digital culture 💾🎶 PhD in Media and Communication from Temple University, postdoc at
@cdcspenn.bsky.social
Ralph P. Locke @ralphlocke.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester); author and co-editor of books and journal articles on music history, incl. works by Berlioz, Verdi, Saint-Sae"ns, Debussy, Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Bernstein.
michelle sulaiman 🚲🚴♀️🚲 @chromeowtic.bsky.social DMA Piano Performance, MA Musicology
@uoregon | she/dia/doctor | Cat mom/servant
Music of Asian America Research Center @asianamericanmusic.bsky.social Teaching Asian American history and experiences through music, and promoting/preserving the work of Asian American musicians.
Jonathan Hendrickx @jonathanhendrickx.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen • Fields of expertise: Social media (and) journalism, news diversity, Eurovision •🇧🇪 in 🇩🇰
Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts (DCHA) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, supports advanced study of the arts & humanities, fosters interdisciplinary research, and advocates for the value of the arts & humanities in our world today.
Phil Ewell @philewell.bsky.social Music theorist, cellist, race scholar, husband, dad, Brooklynite, Hunter College prof, he/him, можно по-русски, philipewell.com
Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)
danrosen.xyz
Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social author of Assimilate + books on TMBG + Laurie Anderson
professor @ Ithaca College / NYU / U. Florida / William & Mary
singer of the band Seeming
ex-ThouShaltNot
https://linktr.ee/salexanderreed
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Routledge Books @routledgebooks.bsky.social Academic publisher of books, journals, eBooks, textbooks, software, and online learning resources. 📚💡
Wayne Tucker - NewFoundRecords Radio Hour @wjt-nfr.bsky.social Producer/Host of NFRRH - the program that shines a light on Newfoundland & Labrador's pre-digital recording artists.
Email: wayne@newfoundrecords.ca
Mother station: CHMR 93.5 FM, St. John's NL
For all stations & airtimes check out www.newfoundrecords.ca
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social Internet Archive Canada is a non-profit digital library that works with universities, and memory institutions throughout Canada. https://internetarchivecanada.org
https://linktr.ee/internetarchivecanada
Memorial University Press @memorialup.bsky.social Memorial University Press publishes illuminating and diverse research on the North Atlantic region, with topics ranging from Indigenous issues, to energy and the environment, to food security, to fisheries, to folklore. www.memorialuniversitypress.ca
Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador @memorialu.bsky.social Perched on Canada’s North Atlantic coast, Memorial University is a destination for discovery.
Memorial University Department of Technical Services @memorialts.bsky.social The official BlueSky account of Memorial University of Newfoundland Department of Technical Services. We design, build, install and maintain technology that supports research. https://www.mun.ca/research/who-we-are/technical-services/
Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social Cultural historian, musicologist, ARC Future Fellow. PARADISEC Sydney. Author “Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance” (Bloomsbury 2020)
Faculty of Science, Memorial University @memorialuscience.bsky.social When you are this close to the sea, sky and land, it's kind of like living in one giant science lab.
NL Live Events @nlliveevents.bsky.social NL Live Events promotes the Arts, Music, Theatre, Comedy and Sports Entertainment for St.John's NL and beyond!
Sound System Epistemologies - HU Berlin @soundsystem2030.bsky.social "Sound System Epistemologies: Knowledge engendered through Practice" is a 6 year DFG funded interdisciplinary research group https://www.musikundmedien.hu-berlin.de/de/musikwissenschaft/sound-system-epistemologies-dfg
Andréa Portou @andyportou.bsky.social PhD student in ethnomusicology
Electronic music enthusiast
berg webern @bergwebern.bsky.social Philosophy, Disney, the Philosophy of Disney. I dislike fascists.
Jacomien Prins @jacomienprins.bsky.social Musicologist and Philosopher
Angie Merila @angiem-routledge.bsky.social music editor at routledge. nyc based.
Claire Slack @mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social Claire. Feral folklorist, museums worker & DHeritage researcher at the University of Hertfordshire exploring Pagan interactions with historic sacred sites. She/they. All views my own.
Morgan Daimler @morgandaimler.bsky.social Independent folklorist, author of nonfiction about irish myth & fairies and fiction (UF & HF), amateur translator of old/middle Irish, general trouble maker
Folkloristan @folkloristan.bsky.social Collecting, curating, translating and visualising everything related to Pakistani history and folklore!
Find us @folkloristan on Instagram
Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social Folklorist & writer | MAKING OUR FUTURE: VISIONARY FOLKLORE & EVERYDAY CULTURE IN APPALACHIA (UNC Press 2022) | @spinstersounds.bsky.social co-owner | @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social podcast |
Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier. FEARSOME FAIRIES, HAUNTED YORKSHIRE etc. (British Library), THE FAIRY SPOTTER’S GUIDE (Welbeck). Fairy tales / horror / weird and eerie 🦇 Rep’d https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
🧟♀️ Liza Frank @lilithepunk.bsky.social Have-a-go folklorist and writer. My new book Household Lore is out now! Learn the secrets of your dark corners and how best to use a potato... 🧌 https://linktr.ee/lizafrank