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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 6h

The demon at the end of Fantasia

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Birmingham, give S.G. Goodman a warm welcome

Wide shot of S.G. Goodman and her band launching into “Space and Time”

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Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We're living in a world of fools breaking us down when they all should let us be

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm co-chairing a search for a full professor in the area of "media entrepreneurship" (extremely broadly defined) at the University of Alabama. It comes with an endowment! Curious? Don't hesitate to reach out. careers.ua.edu/jobs/ccis-so...

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CCIS - Southern Progress Professor of Media Entrepreneurship, Journalism and Creative Media - 530646 - Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

Department/Organization207451 - Journalism and Creative Media RankProfessor Position SummaryThe Department of Journalism & Creative Media in the College of Communication & Information Scienc...

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jean jacket weather returns 🤙🏻

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seems like we’re witnessing the superstar musician equivalent of posting disease rn

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That knowing “oh” a massage therapist lets out when you tell them that you’re a side sleeper

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm not a regular prof I'm a cool prof etc

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In-Class Activity #1

Prompt: Pick your favorite TV show. Is it a series or a serial?

Accompanying Image: My NYT 21st C TV ballot

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm teaching serialized storytelling today so sure why not here's my NYT Best TV Shows of the 21st Century ballot. I cut The Pitt but time will tell. Dunno what's going on with 30 Rock on the ballot but at least it's there.

1. Mad Men
2. Better Things
3. I May Destroy You
4. Work in Progress
5. High Maintenance
6. Broad City
7. 30 Rock
8. RuPaul's Drag Race
9. Looking
10. 30 Rock

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

First books are something to celebrate, especially in popular music studies. If you or someone you know published an awesome first manuscript in 2025, nominate it for @iaspm-us.bsky.social's Woody Guthrie Award. Nomination deadline: 10/30/26. Deets below. iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Guthrie-and-...

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Woody Guthrie and Greg Tate Awards

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🏈 ⚾️ 🏀 ⚽️ 🥎 🎮 🐘

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thinking about the complementary approaches Robyn and Carly Rae Jepsen took on their “motherhood” albums—a goofy dance break and a long psychedelic sprawl—as meditations on mom time

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On Fridays in my gender and pop music seminar, we're doing listening sessions. Here's what the kids brought in this morning. Damon Albarn, “The Selfish Giant” Yuno Miles ft. Alex Schor and DigBar, “Intrusive Thoughts” G-Idle, “Nxde” Roc Marciano & The Alchemist, “The Elephant Man’s Bones”

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Boosted before a thunderstorm ✌🏻

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Popular Music Books In Process update. HMU if you wanna join the team or present work in 2027.

Popular Music Books in Process series, 2026-2027:
Call for Proposals and for New Co-Organizers

Since 2020, the Popular Music Books in Process series has held online
events for music writers and scholars to bring recent books or works in
progress to an engaged community. PMBiP is a collaboration between the Journal of Popular Music Studies, the Pop Conference, and IASPM-US. There have been more than 160 Zoom events so far, almost all preserved on YouTube. The recordings are also being archived at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame for educational purposes.

This year, Eric Weisbard is retiring from leading the series. Antonia
Randolph, Kimberly Mack, Francesca Royster, and Gus Sadler are also
stepping back. We thank them for all their work in selecting and scheduling authors, guiding presenters, cultivating audiences, participating in sessions, and posting videos.

Elena Razlogova, Alyxandra Vesey, and Carl Wilson are staying on. We are currently looking for a few new people to join us as co-organizers to keep PMBiP alive and growing. We welcome critics, researchers, and authors both inside and outside academia. The time commitment is not much more than three to four hours a month in season, plus a couple of off-season online meetings. If you would like to join us, or to suggest someone else you know with the skills and interest to be part of the group, please email alyx.vesey@gmail.com as soon as possible, at the latest by Monday, Oct. 5.

Meanwhile, we are on a semi-hiatus. We will have a few events in the fall
that are held over from last season, all on Tuesdays at 5 pm:

Nov 10: Jessica Holmes, Music at the Margins of Sense (University of
Michigan Press) with Anabel Maler, Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign
Language Music (Oxford University Press)
Dec 8: Karl Hagstrom Miller, Amateurs Make American Pop Music: A
History (Duke University Press, forthcoming)
TBA: Eric Lott, Pleasant Valley Sunday (Duke Singles Series, in progress)
We will return to a more regular schedule in early 2027. We are now seeking proposals for that new season. If you have a new book or one publishing in the next year, or have work in progress you want to showcase for feedback, please let us know.

Sessions last between 60 and 90 minutes. All kinds of formats are welcome, from readings and dialogues to roundtables, always including a generous Q&A. Some authors have even incorporated live music. Unfortunately we can’t play music recordings or videos due to YouTube’s draconian restrictions, but visual displays are more than welcome. We ask you to make your event conversational on some level and to avoid longer solo presentations.You are encouraged to propose co-presenters or interlocutors, or we can help arrange them. We may suggest combining authors whose topics or approaches seem compatible. Our YouTube page shows the variety of strategies presenters have used.
Whatever the format, our focus remains books, whether early in gestation or after publication. We want to highlight popular music writing of many kinds, whether scholarly, mass-market, personal, or hybrid, keeping our communities connected, and welcoming in new participants. Presenters are asked to do their best to attend several other sessions through the season, to get a feel for the series and also to support it. Please feel free to share this call with others you think might want to join in.

For early 2027 and beyond, email to all seven co-organizers by October 1:

-A proposal of about 300 words describing the book or books that you would like to present, along with your preferred presentation format;
-A bio of up to 100 words for each participant;
-An indication of when would be best for you. Specific months or even a few specific dates are encouraged. The exact time for winter-spring sessions is still to be determined, but it will be circa Monday-Wednesday, 5 pm to 5:30 pm ET.

Thank you!

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Stacey Copeland @scopeland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Book Talk happening tomorrow (8 sept) free online for my new book Lavender Sounds. Come celebrate with me, ask a question, or just listen in and say hi :) RSVP for the online event here: forms.gle/CG3EkTyHk4S2... #QueerMedia #LGBTQHistory #Radio #Podcasting

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Deep adulting in the academy is scheduling a Friday afternoon booster shot on Sunday before the calendar fills up

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The AI podcast ad break situation has frankly gotten out of hand

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wow it really is amazing how glasses make it easier to read

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On Friday, my gender and pop music students draft the subjects for their final projects about female-identified musical acts they would like to induct into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I always provide my dream team top ten, but two students have already made some inspired choices.

My dream team Rock Hall nominee list

Roberta Flack
Fanny
Sinéad O'Connor
Sleater-Kinney
Grace Jones
Astrud Gilberto
Dorothy Ashby
The B-52's
Labelle
ESG

Two student picks

Judee Sill
Sweet Inspirations

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

TIL that Buster Poindexter refers to “Hot Hot Hot” as a “fundamental jam” and I will be running this phrase into the ground

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One thing that’s great about Nine to Five is that studio comedies used to riff on so many genres while still being grounded in versions of a real time and place

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Rooster to a Hen in One Shot” is one of Dolly’s great songs

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

9 to 5 remake with Emma Stone (Jane), Hannah Einbinder (Lily), and Sabrina Carpenter (Dolly, she covers the song). Danny McBride as Dabney Coleman?

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton died so I believe we’re done working today

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I threw on Sade's "Keep Looking" before bed last night and I continue to be taken with how much Marvin Gaye I hear in her vocals and in their rhythm section. They really do sound like a Marvin baton pass to me the more I listen.

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Rainbow Road still goes dude

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Pitched a class about Olivia Rodrigo that may not make the schedule but it’s the trying that counts

u + me = <3: Expressing Big Feelings with Olivia Rodrigo

This course will explore the complexities and intensities of interpersonal communication in the digital age through the music of Olivia Rodrigo and her various musical and literary influences. It will pay particular attention to her third album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, which is a sustained narrative that details a young woman’s first serious adult relationship from early infatuation to its aftermath. Through the creation of multimedia projects like mixtapes and ‘zines, students will examine how pop music can help people process negative or complicated emotions, forge healthy romantic partnerships, and develop affinity groups and friendships on and offline.

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Y’all didn’t tell me about the other big 90s needle drop in Camp Miasma and thank you for that 🥰

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I just submitted an open call paper from my VH1 book to SCMS because sometimes that’s just how it goes. Hope it finds a good home and hope to see summa y’all in Montréal!

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Lol of course I forgot to draft once I started chatting with the kids but my song was still up for grabs an hour later because I have excellent taste in music

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Gonna start my Friday class a minute late all semester so I can get my Music League song in

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Kayti Lausch @kaytilausch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hey y'all, it's SCMS planning time! Olivia Stowell and I are putting together a panel on the present and future of reality TV for SCMS 2027 and we are looking for one more panelist! We're thinking about the genre in this weird conglomeration moment.

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wandering in from early 2025 to talk up The Pitt lol

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Is there a German word for "turning the article you drafted from a Powerpoint back into a Powerpoint"?

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love how dance functions in Everybody Wants Some!! as a corrective to Dazed and Confused’s classic rock hegemony, a way to pick up girls because they like to dance, and an expression of how baseball players think through motion m.youtube.com/watch?v=nHZj...

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EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! | Baseball Players Can Dance

YouTube video by ANNAPURNA

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Happy last day of summer screening of Everybody Wants Some to all who celebrate

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Last good hair day of the summer 😎

Selfie of my excellent head of hair, unwashed, wind-swept, and untouched by products; my grey streak just so

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Andrew Herman 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🍊 @djouroboros.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Communication Studies peeps: We are seeking a fourth person to round out a 2027 SCMS panel in honour of Jonathan Sterne. The panel is provisionally entitled Revisiting Jonathan Sterne and the Great Divide: Orality, Literacy, and the Vicissitudes of (Canadian) Medium Theory.

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Last Saturday, to my horror, I discovered that I gave myself two assignments to grade on Fridays (why? no!) when I revised my syllabi back in May. This morning, I cut one of them and I implore all of you dorks to do the same.

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Lisa Simpson Dances to 'She's A Maniac'

Alt: Lisa Simpson dancing to "Proud Mary"

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This morning I'm turning all of my Antenna blog posts from grad school into Word documents because you never know and hey, the stuff I wrote over a decade ago isn't half bad blog.commarts.wisc.edu/author/vesey/

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Alyxandra Vesey | Antenna

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