Music Studies
Musicologists and historians, ethnomusicologists, music theorists, and other people who work on academic music
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@imanimosley.bsky.social
@biddlemolly.bsky.social
Criminology and music. Data analyst for public defense and police accountability in Philly. Prisoners’ families researcher. Proud daughter of Appalachia. IoC Cambridge MPhil. Haverford Alum. Still masking. She/Her
@andrewhd.bsky.social
It is not your business to turn out a funeral. Electrical and classical guitarman. Recovering musicologist. Wrote the boring chapter in the Julius Eastman book. He/him
@ritwikb.bsky.social
experimental ethnographer, interactive media artist, Midwest grilling dad (MGD), deep in the heart of #postglacial America
@rmbodenheimer.bsky.social
Freelance writer & cultural critic with a PhD in ethnomusicology Host of The Clave Chronicles, a Cuban music podcast she/her, bilingüe, fat, 🏳️🌈 , Oaktown Hire me: rmbodenheimer@gmail.com https://rmbodenheimer.com
@mrajournal.bsky.social
Music Research Annual is an open-access journal devoted to review essays that span the full breadth of music research across the humanities, social sciences, and beyond. Published by @mmap.bsky.social https://musicresearchannual.org
@nilanjana.bsky.social
Teaching professor at a large public university in Arizona. I start more books than I finish and write on music and films. (I also photograph trees.)
@georgeryr.bsky.social
• Lecturer in musicology and music technology | Kingston University & University of Northampton • Electronic music composer | Chiptune, Digital, Ambient, Retrowave • Freelance composer & sound designer, and pixel artist • (He/They) 🏳️🌈🇦🇲🇬🇧
@iaspm-us.bsky.social
The official Bluesky account for the US branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music
@rebeccakopriva.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Louisville, art nerd, morning person
@friedlind.bsky.social
music & sound studies, media philosophy | painfully split between German academia and anglophone-mainstream academia | Wrote a book about Burmese opera/pyazat https://friedlindriedel.de/
@annalises.bsky.social
Musicologist studying French Opera at Memorial University | Project Coordinator of MMaP | Baker | Creator of singing-dog videos | 1/3 of Cool Pond Productions
@ludomusicology.bsky.social
The Ludomusicology Research Group. Interested in #gamemusic, #vgm, #gameaudio? This is your place! #Gamedev & #gamestudies welcome! Tweets mostly by M. Fritsch. www.ludomusicology.org www.sssmg.org
@mmap.bsky.social
MMaP is the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place at Memorial University. Publisher of Music Research Annual and the Back-on-Track Audio Publication Series.
@medievaliste.bsky.social
independent scholar, sometime professor, academic editor medieval studies; musicology; women’s and gender history; increasingly writing about feelings glgower.com
@nmanabe.bsky.social
Professor of Music Theory; also work in ethnomusicology and Japan studies. Research in music and social movements, popular music, music and language. Author of Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music after Fukushima. Views my own. linktr.ee/nmanabe
@emschwitz.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Music Theory and Cognition, Northwestern University • I like pop music, expectation, brains, and coffee • she/her
@boulezian.bsky.social
Intellectual, political, and cultural history; music; musicology; politics. Writing a book on the complete Mozart operas and C18 religion/politics/philosophy. Views, for better or worse, my own. https://boulezian.blogspot.com/
@tomirvinemuso.bsky.social
Professor and Head of Music, U. of Southampton. Global history of music and some other things. Sometime podcaster. My views.
@emilyabramsansari.bsky.social
Musicologist and Asst. Dean @ Western University 🇨🇦 scholar of Cold War in 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇸🇻 author of “The Sound of a Superpower” 🇺🇸 family, travel, cooking, gardening, and interior design evenings + weekends
@joshuaneumann.bsky.social
(Digital) musicologist, vocal performance practice/audio sources expert, opera scholar, expat, and more in Mainz.
@flutehues.bsky.social
Flutist, Musicologist, runner, cat rescuer, history enthusiast, bad birder, philosopher, Sicily, women, LGBTQ+, she/her/hers
@danelphick.bsky.social
Music Lecturer at RHUL, working on music history and analysis, and Slavic studies. Also a runner and TU organiser (Chair of @rhucu.bsky.social). Listen to Shostakovich. I wrote a book on Weinberg: https://tinyurl.com/5xs2h82h https://danielelphick.co.uk
@drcanonic.bsky.social
Music/Historian, listening & thinking & listening some more. Indo-German-Canadian in America. Posting in a personal capacity.
@ryanebright.bsky.social
Musicologist at Bowling Green State. I write about opera, new music, American music. Bylines: NY Times, Opera News, New Yorker, NewMusic Box. he/him/his
@cooksterkc.bsky.social
Musician, Medievalist, Gamer, Historian, Skeptic, Lover of Pop Cultures Past & Present. Stayin' alive. She/Her. [All views my own; RT/♥ ≠ agreement.]
@jmbussert.bsky.social
PhD student in music theory at Indiana University. Amateur chess player and poet. Famously depressed and anxious. He/him/his
@jennlarue.bsky.social
@michaelaustin.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound @ Edge Hill University. Sound + music in interactive/emerging media, ludomusicology, music videos, social justice, listening...www.mlaustin.com.
@appleglass.bsky.social
They/Them | Ethnomusicologist Now Working in Immigration Law | Queer Theory, Drag | #trans #nonbinary | Twitch | Photographer | TTRPGs: Frenell Leega in SotF on Evindale.
@fabianmoss.bsky.social
Assistant Professor for Digital Music Philology and Music Theory at Würzburg University, Germany www.fabian-moss.de
@drbaferguson.bsky.social
Composer, Performer and Researcher of music; also, Game Dev, Developed "A Walk in the Park," developing both "Conducktus" and "Bardcore"; Lecturer of Games Sound and Music at Brunel University of London https://linktr.ee/drbaferguson
@allisonportnow.bsky.social
Public programs at Ackland Art Museum (UNC) | UNC musicology PhD '11 (Einstein & modernism) | double bass/gamba | little kid mom | MBC lifer | food and flower garden-obsessed | she/her |
@glatthorn.bsky.social
PhD | Musicologist & cultural historian | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | Author of ‘Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire’ (Cambridge University Press) | Reviews Editor of ‘Eighteenth-Century Music’
@kkramermcginnis.bsky.social
Writing for Christianity Today | Musicologist teaching at Grand View University | Book: “The Myth of Good Christian Parenting” (Brazos ‘25) | Iowan | Repped by Keely Boeving https://linktr.ee/kkmcginnis
@leahbranstetter.bsky.social
Arts + digital things. PhD in musicology (womeninrockproject.org) and knitter/runner/reader.
@mcegillion.bsky.social
Research Coordinator at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Musicologist & book historian Opinions mine She/her
@aaronkorea.bsky.social
The other place is mostly a ghost town now, so I hope to find some people I follow there on here instead. Mostly classical music, Korean studies, and politics.
@matildaertz.bsky.social
My things are musicology, piano, harpsichord, music+dance...and fighting the good fight.
@dfosler.bsky.social
Director, Imagined Futures initiative at Ohio State, for grad students finding rewarding careers in many lines of work. Musicology, global history, diplomatic history, women's history. She/her. Opinions my own. Repost ≠ endorsement.
@johnpaulmeyers.bsky.social
Ethnomusicologist. Assistant Prof. of Af-Am Studies at UIUC. Midwestern repatriate. My book, "Same Old Song: The Enduring Past in Popular Music," is out now! https://www.amazon.com/Same-Old-Song-Enduring-American/dp/1496850874/ref=sr_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8
@jacquesdupuis.bsky.social
clinical assistant professor of music theory/musicology at Purdue Fort Wayne : {long C19 German and American music and theater, film music and sound} : disaffected Montanan : he/him jacquesdupuis.com
@citharize.bsky.social
PhD, Musicology. Interests: Oscar Levant, George Gershwin, Hanns Eisler, Southern cultures, popular music, film music.
@dramyzigler.bsky.social
Ethel Smyth scholar, new music pianist; Asst Professor of Musicology, UNC Greensboro; she/her; my views are my own and mostly have to do with women composers
@michaelbuchler.bsky.social
Music theorist at Florida State University, former President of the Society for Music Theory, might or might not ever check this account.
@royalmusical.bsky.social
The Royal Musical Association is the foremost UK society dedicated to the study of music. Posts may promote events/opinions not formally endorsed by RMA.
@annvanallen.bsky.social
Musicologist | BMus Programme Coordinator at Royal College of Music | 18C| J. C.Bach | music & law & creativity. All views my own. (she/her/Dr)
@rhiaufdeutsch.bsky.social
Musicologist| PhD Candidate at UMich 〽️| Dog Mom | Lapsed Soprano | Deutsch Lernerin | Köln Affectionado | She/Her
@moritzkelber.com
Musicologist from Munich (he/him) Personal website: www.moritzkelber.com Editor of: kontrovers.hypotheses.org Instagram: @instakelber #music #musicology #theatre #opera #politics #IchBinHanna
@leahbroad.bsky.social
Writer | Presenter | Historian I write about music, women's history & cultural history. QUARTET out now at https://linktr.ee/leahbroadwriter Substack: http://leahbroad.substack.com Website: http://leahbroad.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/leahbroad
@archivfraumusik.bsky.social
The biggest and oldest archive about women composers and conductors. More than 31,000 media units of more than 2,100 women composers. Located in Frankfurt. Represented by @donauschwalbe.bsky.social | RIP @gitarra 🕯 #womencomposers www.archiv-frau-musik.de
@thomashodgson.org
Ethnomusicologist at UCLA | Musician in Stornoway New book: Journeys of Love: Kashmiris, Music, and the Poetics of Migration (Chicago) - https://tinyurl.com/yc422cu4
@joshuagailey.bsky.social
Musicologist currently doing communications & public engagement at Seattle Opera. Previous work on wind band history, music pedagogy, and cultural hierarchies. I also play trumpet and love/hate the Seattle Mariners. He/him.
@torumomii.bsky.social
Music theorist at Harvard. 音楽理論、越境史、現代音楽、ポピュラー音楽の研究。Interculturality, race, Asian/American performance, gagaku, popular music. He/him
@wesflinn.bsky.social
Composer. Music theorist. Lowbrassman. Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Division of the Humanities, UMN Morris. Morton Gould and John Quincy Adams fan. Wannabe Dean and/or legislator. Son of Pinhook, citizen of the world. Views my own.
@leoniekrempien.bsky.social
she/her | Musicologist | English Lit & Culture | 17th c. English Opera & history of musicology | Edmund Spenser groupie | also posts @shakesmus.bsky.social
@stephspie.bsky.social
PhD Musicology | Living the VAP life | Interested in childhood music, steelpan, and the Philadelphia Eagles (she/her)
@jimbuhler.bsky.social
Professor of music theory, working on film music and virtual instruments. Author: Hearing the Movies & Theories of the Soundtrack. Pronouns: he/him
@cedricpreston.bsky.social
He/Him. Music & AfAm Studies PhD student, @yale. Alumn, @umich. Studying space, place, race, and gender in Black popular music.
@datajada.bsky.social
phd in musicology, m. in information science, associate prof of dh @UO_ESIS. pi of www.SongData.ca
@berglinmusiced.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Music Ed., Western Michigan University. Dad, nerd, human. Practicing radical positivity.
@brohannesjahms.bsky.social
Librarian, ludomusicologist, voice actor, music theorist, cat mom. I have a yt channel where I post videos of first looks at demos, betas, and new videogame releases! If you're an indie dev, reach out! https://www.youtube.com/@BrohannesJahms
@sarahfritz.bsky.social
Writer. Historian. Former opera singer. she/her Clara Schumann know-it-all. https://clara-schumann-channel.com/
@kmfranseen.bsky.social
Musicologist. Postdoc at Western University, prev. at Concordia. Current project: Antonio Salieri’s Intriguing Afterlives: Gossip, Fiction, and the Post-Truth in Musical Biography. I also wrote a book on the history of queer musicology! Holmesian. she/her
@jewishoperadoc.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Center for Jewish Studies, Historical Musicologist, Host of @thesoundingjewishpodcast, and Co-Executive Director of The Jewish Music Forum, A Project of the American Society for Jewish Music
@lauriestras.bsky.social
Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton; director @musicasecreta.bsky.social
@burnschelsea.bsky.social
accordionist, music theorist. Austin, TX. I like to ride my bicycle.
@anthroposound.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Music @ NYU Abu Dhabi. Writes on music & sound in Kenya. #Ethnomusicology #Anthropology. Author 'Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast' www.weslpress.org/9780819501066/sounds-of-other-shores
@ereng.bsky.social
composer / guitarist / knower of music tech things — Assistant Professor of Composition at Florida State University
@oharawe.bsky.social
music theory prof interested in too many things, and too many sports teams. Currently writing about Amy Beach, DAWs, games about the Second World War (not at the same time)
@anna-lise.bsky.social
Musicologist, editor of really big books, player of assorted string instruments, retired Jeopardy! champion; opinions are my own, not my employer’s
@abigailshupe.bsky.social
Music theory assoc professor.📍Fort Collins 📖 *War & Death in the Music of George Crumb* (Routledge 2023). Now studying music, 9/11, GWOT, & memory. Open water & masters swimming. Sighthounds. Episcopalian. Originally from IN. She/her
@skleppinger.bsky.social
associate professor, music theory, Glenn Korff School of Music, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; general nuisance
@sam-reenan.bsky.social
Music Theorist researching form and genre mixture in early 20c music. he/him/his. All views my own
@danielshanahan.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Music Theory and Cognition at Northwestern
@shlomitsofer.bsky.social
SEX SOUNDS (open access): https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045193/sex-sounds/ Professes music theory & tech at UDayton 🏳️⚧️🎾🎛️🎻🎹
@juliannegrasso.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Florida State, Associate Curmudgeon, Full Hoagie. Hollers about video game music on Twitch most Thurs nights with the Ludomusicology Stream Team at twitch.tv/bardicknowledge
@hilaryporiss.bsky.social
Professor and Chair, Department of Music, Northeastern University. Scholar of #opera and #divas. Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville (OUP 2021). I also make a mean chocolate chip cookie.
@chromeowtic.bsky.social
DMA Piano Performance, MA Musicology @uoregon | she/dia/doctor | Cat mom/servant
@rwgarvey.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student at Uchicago. Studying Composition and Research in Computer Music. Treasurer of Aperiodic. He/they. Ephemera and other things. Jazz/Classical/Contemporary Art/Modern Dance/ Queer Lit/ Books & Academia www.soundcloud.com/garveymusic
@poestiche.bsky.social
transsexuality, archives, queerness, disability, musicology, in some order. cat dad, 🏳️🌈 husband, PhD student. NYC.
@vivekvirani.bsky.social
Scholar, performer, and teacher of spiritual music drawing from traditions of South Asia and around the world. Ethnomusicologist (whatever that means) at UNT College of Music.
@akseltoll.bsky.social
At the crossroads of 20th century musicology and rampant homosexuality. Dispensary of musical opinion. Classical music critic and editor. Occasional knitting. akseltollaali (at) gmail . com
@jdmcglynn.bsky.social
Screen Music scholar | Lecturer | Research Fellow in Screen Studies, Trinity College Dublin | UCC Music alumnus
@robdeemer.bsky.social
Composition professor, Chair of Theatre & Dance, & Senate Chair at SUNY Fredonia, Director/Founder of the Institute for Composer Diversity (www.composerdiversity.com)
@natayazhi.bsky.social
Diné musicologist, pianist, writer, chemist 🏜 Host of American Classical Voices on 95.5 KHFM PhD Student in Ethnomusicology @ Columbia U
@zachlloydmt.bsky.social
Music Theorist by Training, Teacher by Passion • Educational Developer--Teaching Consultant at Florida State University • Musical Theater; Race, Gender, Sexuality in Music; Pedagogy • Thoughts and views are my own • He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
@sndorf.bsky.social
professor of musicology working in musicology, dance history, and VERY early music. Cheerleader for the Humanities at the University of Dayton. he/him ✡️ צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדֹּף
@kategalloway.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. RPI ARTS/GSAS music + environment, sound studies, digital media & game studies Co-organizer @SwiftCon2021 & Music & the Internet 2023
@sarahpcphd.bsky.social
Ludomusicologist, mom, musician, editor, photographer, baker of goods, eater of foods, pro-bono appliance repair person
@kgoldschmitt.bsky.social
Popular music scholar at Wellesley College, author of Bossa Mundo, past co-editor of Journal of Popular Music Studies, they/them/ele. Neuroqueer. Falo português. תיקון עולם 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🚴
@rebawissner.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Musicology at Columbus State University, faculty developer, adjunct advocate, UDL, public musicologist, she/her/hers
@jaminbenco.bsky.social
music & musicals & horror & film & tv & video games & disability related content— sometimes all at once. museum professional.
@dandipiero.bsky.social
Musician, writer, teacher. Books on improvisation and queer-feminist indie rock. Site: http://dandipiero.com Substack: http://dandipiero.substack.com Big Feelings book: https://press.umich.edu/Books/B/Big-Feelings2
@cristina4.bsky.social
Musicologist, author of https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=83ces9ph9780252045714
@bmllr.net
Music theorist, UMich lecturer teaching about computing, music, and other things. Interested in intellectual history, style, semiotics, greyhounds, and tennis