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Byron Dueck

@byrondueck.bsky.social
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a.k.a. Ethnomusicology Du(e)ck?

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Byron Dueck @byrondueck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rain in Mvog Mbi, Yaoundé.
Three buildings - one on the left, mostly salmon-coloured, one on the right, pink and white, and one at the back, grey concrete - viewed from underneath a corrugated metal roof. Water is pouring from the eaves.
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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Uncharacteristically perplexing infobox on Wikipedia about the alphabet song
"ABC Song"

Song by Traditional [??]

from the album 535 Favorite Kids Songs [??]
B-side: "Loch Lomond" [??]
Released: 1835 [okay]
Recorded: 1834 [??]
Genre: Folk [okay]
Length: 1:25 [??]
Label: Decca Records [??]
Songwriter: anonymous [okay]

Traditional singles chronology [??]
"Turkey in the Straw” (1834)
“ABC Song" (1835)
"Can You Count The Stars" (1837)
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time
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Byron Dueck @byrondueck.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The beautiful game
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Byron Dueck @byrondueck.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Microsoft Outlook on a Mac. It's like Clippy has somehow failed upward so hard he now run things.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/06/2026
This is an embarrassing image for the UK. A self-respecting British fox should be dragging Binface's contents out over the stage
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 03/06/2026
eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year
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Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Are you dreaming of studying music at Masters level but worried about the cost? The Margaret Wooder Studentships could cover your full tuition fees for our MA Music programme. ✅ Part One fees fully funded ✅ Part Two fees funded on passing Part One at merit or distinction level
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Byron Dueck @byrondueck.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Anyone else waiting for a Daniel Harding / Bruce Dickinson collaboration? www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
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Los Angeles Philharmonic announces Daniel Harding as next music director
The British-born maestro will replace Gustavo Dudamel as the orchestra’s chief conductor
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Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Meet Dr Sean Williams, one of our Music faculty, who joined students and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group for a study day earlier this semester.
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ictmdireland.bsky.social @ictmdireland.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
ICTMD Ireland announce the Tony Langlois Postgraduate Publication Award, recognising excellence in postgraduate scholarship published in Ethnomusicology Ireland.
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Music Computing job opportunity with colleagues in the STEM faculty at the OU: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN260/r... #AcademicJobs
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Research Associate in Music Computing at The Open University
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:
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Byron Dueck @byrondueck.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
If I never hear the phrase 'locked and loaded' again, it will be too soon.
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I forgot to share this but another thing I've been working on of late (with lots of amazing other people) has been a creative toolkit for tinnitus support groups, meant to help support often tricky conversations about experiencing tinnitus tinnitusarts.co.uk/toolkit
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Toolkit - tinnitusarts.co.uk
Sharing Tinnitus: A Creative Toolkit for Tinnitus Support Groups Research shows that creative activities can help people to understand, reflect on and talk about their tinnitus in new ways. Sharing Ti...
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Byron Dueck @byrondueck.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Congratulations to the local arrangements committee at King's College London for a fantastic annual conference for the British Forum for Ethnomusicology! It has been a joy to work with you over the last year. @bfeadmin.bsky.social @katherineschof8.bsky.social @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social
Photo of the Strand with the main entrance to KCL on the right, Bush house on the left and St Mary le Strand in the middle.
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Very pleased that my new edition of John Frederick Lampe and Jonathan Battishill's settings of Charles Wesley is now available from A-R Editions. www.areditions.com/early-method...
Book cover with text: Early Methodist Hymns for Solo Voice and Continuo: Settings by John Frederick Lampe and Jonathan Battishill of Hymn Texts by Charles Wesley. Edited by Martin V. Clarke. A-R Editions, Inc.
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Byron Dueck @byrondueck.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Tweaky Blunters? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Ex-Tory minister Crispin Blunt pleads guilty to possession of crystal meth
Former prisons minister appears in court to admit four drugs charges stemming from raid on his Surrey home
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 14/03/2026
Jürgen Habermas, philosophe allemand, intellectuel combatif et esprit encyclopédique, est mort à l’âge de 96 ans
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Jürgen Habermas, philosophe allemand, intellectuel combatif et esprit encyclopédique, est mort à l’âge de 96 ans
Ce théoricien, qui n’hésitait pas à intervenir dans le débat public, fut un des premiers à harmoniser la tradition analytique anglo-saxonne, axée sur la logique et la langue, et la tradition continentale, centrée sur les idées.
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Byron Dueck @byrondueck.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Labour just keeps finding new lows. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK puts emergency brake on study visas for four countries’ nationals
Shabana Mahmood says UK’s generosity abused as study visas halted for nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan
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Chelsea Burns @burnschelsea.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We're struggling with this on our campus right now as well. I don't understand what is supposed to be an effective alt text for a page of musical score my students are analyzing. Have you seen anyone discuss this that I could reference? I imagine it's one of several issues involved for music depts.
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Byron Dueck @byrondueck.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Congratulations to @owencoggins.bsky.social for a great BFE keynote talk, 'Distortion, Ambiguity and Ideology in Underground Black Metal', at the 2026 BFE/RMA Research Students Conference at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. @royalmusical.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social
Owen Coggins presenting the BFE keynote lecture at the BFE/RMA Research Students' Conference at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Coggins is standing at a lectern on stage. Behind him is a slide that says 'Black metal's controversy engines: Rejectionism'.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The website for BFE@KCL 2026 — 9-12 April — is now up and running! Conference registration will be available in the new year. bfeconference2026.wordpress.com @kingsmusic.bsky.social & BFE are excited to welcome you all to London to explore with us the theme of music and the present/presence
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British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2026
Department of Music, King's College London, Strand Campus, London, WC2R 2LS
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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the Proposed Suspension of Recruitment to the BA and Foundation Year in Music at Northumbria University www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/25/rma-statem…
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Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We're offering a PhD fees-only studentship for someone to begin studying with us in October 2026. Mode of study can be full-time or part-time, including distance learning. Open to any area of musicology that aligns with our expertise in the department. See fass.open.ac.uk/music/resear... #PhD
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The Open University
Applicants to the Music PhD programme will have the opportunity to apply for an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC studentship. Awards for UK residents cover all tuition fees and provide a maintenance grant a...
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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
RMA statement on the proposed suspension of recruitment to all UG music programmes at the University of Nottingham: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/17/s...
Graphic with concluding words from the RMA statement: "We urge the University of Nottingham in the strongest terms to reverse its decision to suspend recruitment to all undergraduate programmes in music, and to continue to provide whole- hearted support to a department that has already achieved so much in so many different areas of music, and which, with its highly talented and deeply committed staff body, is excellently positioned to thrive in the future."
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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.
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Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
@kingsmusic.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social is delighted to be hosting the annual conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, 9–12 April 2026, on the theme Ethnomusicology and the Present. Call for Papers below; deadline for proposals 24 Nov. bfe.org.uk/conf/ethnomu...
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Ethnomusicology and The Present | British Forum for Ethnomusicology
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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The Royal Musical Association and Cambridge University Press Edited Book Prize for 2025 goes to Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay for their edited collection 'Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century' (OUP, 2024).
Graphic for the edited book prize.Front cover of the prize-winning 'Acoustic of Empire', ed. Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay.
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RMA Student Committee @rmastudents.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
✨CALL FOR PROPOSALS✨ The British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) and the Royal Musical Association (RMA) are seeking proposals for their Research Students’ Conference hosted by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on 6th-8th January 2026. See the link in our bio for submission guidelines and event info.
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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It was a pleasure to author the OpenLearn Course 'Women Transforming Classical Music', which is designed to support performers and classical music ensembles and institutions to perform more music by historic and contemporary women composers: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi... #WomenInMusic
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Women transforming classical music
Women transforming classical music is a free course aimed at helping individual performers, ensembles and organisations within the classical music industry to diversify their repertoire by ...
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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the School of Music at Cardiff University: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/02/03/s...
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Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the School of Music at Cardiff University – Royal Musical Association
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