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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Studie zu Musikstreaming in 2026 Bist Du frustriert mit Spotifys Musikvorschlägen? Ist Spotify Wrapped nur noch peinlich? Kein Bock auf KI Musik und Aufrüstung finanziert durch Musikkonsum? Dann sag uns Deine Meinung! forms.gle/kSNJwoDSJj5H...

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Studie zu Musikstreaming in 2026

Nutzen Sie regelmäßig Musikstreaming-Plattformen? Wenn Sie Erfahrung mit Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, Bandcamp, YouTube Music oder anderen Musikstreaming-Diensten haben und mindestens 18...

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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Registration link: forms.gle/6KYUpAn9iDBx... Rolling Forward Together’ IWD 2026 SSHRED Panel Panel: Mimi Knoop - Sarah Huston - Norma Ibarra - Pipa Souza Co-Chairs: Dr Indigo Willing @goodwillinghunting and Cecely Todacheenie @mbones.mb Co-Convenor: Dr Ben Duester @benjamin_duester

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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

SSHRED Seminar no 19 is coming up, the first for 2026 and we are excited to host Dan Johnston who will share his insights from his photography research on Skateparks in Western Sydney. Session will be co-hosted with Indigo Willing Register here: lnkd.in/g9tXZDaa

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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Moin, Als Teil des Forschungsprojekts "The Columbian Exchange" in the Age of Music Streaming an der National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan führen wir eine vergleichende Studie zu Musikstreaming in Deutschland durch. Link zum Fragebogen: forms.gle/kPMDLQynAq8v...

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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

📚BOOK GIVEAWAY📚 details see below 👇 Books have arrived from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Join us on 12 June for the book launch. Register via the link and enter a draw for a copy of the book. uni-goettingen.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

📚BOOK LAUNCH📚 To celebrate the publication of „Tomorrow on Cassette“ with @bloomsburymus.bsky.social Tyler Sonnichsen and I are hosting a zoom book launch event on 12 June 2025. Join us, hang out and talk tapes with us! register here: uni-goettingen.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

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SSHRED @sshred.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Dermo on viewing the world through BMX

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SSHRED @sshred.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The SSHRED panel on Place and Meaning Making in BMX is now streaming on our YouTube channel. Check out a story on viewing the world through BMX told by Dr Dave Camilleri m.youtube.com/watch?v=HTUI...

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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

@natalieporter.bsky.social on moving to Vancouver, becoming part of the scene and getting inspired by the great female skaters of the 1970s. Natalie’s SSHRED seminar is streaming on our YouTube channel: m.youtube.com/watch?v=GWHq...

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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

GREEN PRESSURE ZINE VOL.1 coming this year - stay tuned!

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Natalie Porter @natalieporter.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

#SLOTY 🤣 Still waiting for my copy but getting close! Feeling especially pleased that I snuck in a shout out to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in response to... Read anything good lately? #Thrasher #interview #skaterlibrarian

Interior of Thrasher magazine with full text. Heading says Natalie Porter: the womxn skate history project. Natalie wears a yellow shirt and green ball cap.

Cover on May 2025 issue of Thrasher in red text. Jamie Foy is skating a yellow rail wearing jeans and a gray hoodie

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SSHRED @sshred.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Meet panelist Dr Yiyin Ding for the upcoming SSHRED panel on BMX, Place and meaning making. Session this Thursday check for the zoom link: sshredblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/p... Sessions co-hosted with @indigowilling.bsky.social

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SSHRED @sshred.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Meet panelist Mike Vockenson for the upcoming SSHRED panel on BMX, Place and meaning making. Session this Thursday check for the zoom link: sshredblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/p... Sessions co-hosted with @indigowilling.bsky.social

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SSHRED @sshred.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Meet the chair Dr Dave Camilleri for the upcoming SSHRED panel on BMX, Place and meaning making. Sessions co-hosted with @indigowilling.bsky.social

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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Meet the chair Dr Dave Camilleri for the upcoming SSHRED panel on BMX, Place and meaning making. Sessions co-hosted with @indigowilling.bsky.social

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SSHRED @sshred.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Coming up first SSHRED panel on Place and Meaning Making in BMX featuring Dr Dave Camilleri, Mike Vockenson, Dr Yiyin Ding, Dermo and David Cragg 17 April 2025 London 9am | Berlin 10am | Shanghai 4pm | Sydney 6pm

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Panel: Place and Meaning Making in BMX

Panel – 17 April 2025 Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 850 7380 3779Passcode: 220603 London 9am | Berlin 10am | Shanghai 4pm | Sydney 6pm Featuring: Chair: Dr Dave Camilleri Panelists: …

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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I think I need this bag

A woman with a tote bag that reads "John Lennon Broke Up Fluxus."

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SSHRED @sshred.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

SSHRED Seminar 13 coming up on 8 April 2025 Pacific Time PDT 1pm /London 9pm / Berlin 10pm / Sydney 6am (9 April) @natalieporter.bsky.social hosted by Talia Kaufman

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Reid Allen @reidallen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Excited to say I am co-curating a new project 'The Museum of Polluted Leisure' with Clifton Evers and Tom Critchley. The collection archives encounters where pollution meets leisure and leisure meets pollution. Drop us a follow on instagram: www.instagram.com/the_museum_o... Photo: Martin Parr

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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Looking forward to this workshop on #citypop My presentation „A City Pop Fanon in the New Media Age? Material Genre Formations Between Algorithms, Vinyl and Cassettes“ traces City Pop 10 years after it appeared in the online ecosystem. Hosts: @oliverseibt.bsky.social @katoken.bsky.social

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Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Still the most consequential few seconds of film that any of us will ever see. www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/video...

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Swastika blown up on the Nuremberg Stadium.

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Limn @limnpress.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Dela Anyah, an artist, reimagines objects discarded in Accra’s vulcanizer shops for Limn 11 - The Obsolescence Issue limn.press/article/art-...

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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Had a great time talking about my projects on #cassettetapes #greenpressure and #greenwashing at 國立中正大學National Chung Cheng University! Many thanks again to Miaoju Jian and Chun-Ju Huang for the invitation and excellent hosting! It was exciting to meet new peers and chat about our work. 謝謝你們！

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Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"Taipei at Daybreak articulates a groundbreaking genre of activist memoir that is both passionate and devastating. It captures the Taiwanese American diasporic voice from Occupy Wall Street to the Sunflower Movement."-Wen Liu on @brianhioe.bsky.social 's Taipei at Daybreak, out now!

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François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

A nice little primer of notable activity in the ever under-the-radar Hong Kong indie music scenes (across multiple genres & community): open.substack.com/pub/passingn...

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The Hong Kong music that mattered in 2024

Gigs, records and moments that we can't forget, for better or for worse

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Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

New on the Repeater Substack: an extract from @brianhioe.bsky.social's novel of activism and anarchy "Taipei at Daybreak". Read and Subscribe via repeaterzer0.substack.com/p/taipei-at-...

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Taipei at Sundown

Brian Hioe on Student Protest in Taiwan

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Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The new Japanese edition of k-punk arrived and it's glorious.

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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

On the new episode of the Music Book Podcast, we talk to Daniel Spicer about his great new biography “Peter Brotzmann: Free Jazz, Revolution, and the Politics of Improvisation,” out now on @repeaterbooks.bsky.social . Link: themusicbookpodcast.buzzsprout.com/2120946/epis...

Daniel Spicer's new biography of Peter Brotzmann

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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Excited to be invited by Miaoju Jian and Chun-Ju Huang to present my work on #greenpressure and #greenwashing for the Integrating Technology in the Global South (ITGS) research group at #nationalchungchenguniversity in Taiwan. Looking forward to connecting with peers and exchanging perspectives!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/01/2025

I love this so much! At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions. This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

You can buy a copy of my book "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape," as well as a copy of the companion cassette featuring 12 of today's best tape labels, at highbiasbook.bandcamp.com

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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

@limnpress.bsky.social The Obsolescence Issue featuring a piece by @slobster48602.bsky.social and myself. I had a blast writing this article and I am stoked to see the connection between the historic (mixtapes) and present (tape labels) use of cassettes that we’ve traced in it.

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Limn @limnpress.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Limn 11, Obsolescence, has dropped online. Get it now, for free at link in bio. Limn works because of authors, readers, and issue co-editors, everyone collaborating in our new approach to peer review.

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Rob Drew @slobster48602.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Ben Düster and I co-authored a piece on the int'l cassette revival for this beautifully produced journal. Feeling quite obsolescent these days so it's entirely apropos.

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Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

📚New year, new publication out in a #continuum special issue on Popular Music’s revival and renewal edited by the fantastic Lauren Istvandity, Mengyu Luo and John Tebutt.📚 In this article, I take on the annually regurgitated ‘cassette revival’ or ‘cassette comeback’.

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The ‘cassette comeback’: debunking a tenacious narrative

Academic attention to cassette tapes has reached its first peak in 30 years. If anything, this focus demonstrates that the adoption of media is not as linear as has been commonly anticipated in the...

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