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your favorite musicologist’s favorite musicologist.✨ music/cultural historian at the University of Florida🐊, Tar Heel bred, professional social media haver. is always on brand, & the brand (🇬🇧) is strong 😉 she/her 🏳️‍🌈 linktr.ee/imanimosley

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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 9h
i’ve been writing for almost 3 hours, truly locked in, in spite of my sleepiness. but unfortunately what that means is a supressed appetite. i’ve had 2 coffees & nibbles of a cinnamon roll and that’s IT
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 10h
if you’ve ever watched a baby try to fight falling asleep then you know what i look & feel like right now 😴
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 14h
603) Tubabot. Ideal for both orchestral accompaniment and for punctuating another hilarious disappointment. #SmallRobotsRemastered
A robot in the form of a tuba with banded arms and legs It's body (i.e. the tuba) is shaded to look like reflective metal, its face on the conical bore (big funnel bit) blowing into its mouthpiece, which is on an extended tube from the opposite side of the instrument (because, interestingly and unintentionally, I used an image of a smaller tuba designed to be held at shoulder height for reference, rather than the more conventional style with the mouthpiece closer to the bell), and it has its eyes closed. The robot's arm is connected to one of the many looping pipes, emerging from within the workings to manipulate the valves mounted in the middle. Wide waves emerging from the bell indicate the bassy sound produced by the robot.
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 13h
10. and like so many Black girls it was uniquely tied to my Blackness. i spent the next few years hiding my body in oversized clothes (it was the 90s so it worked) & it’s something i still deal with
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 21h
i had to send off my 2-year course rotation & i’ve decided to resuscitate one of my very first grad seminars that i taught at Wichita State that got interrupted by COVID — i’m looking at the post-March 15 syllabus i made & my god, what a time that was for the world
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 21h
if you want to know more about The Sea Hawk & other British wartime historical films, make sure to check out my forthcoming article “Sounding England” in The Musical Quarterly
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 23h
god damn are y’all listening to these newly released Stevie Wonder tracks? could you imagine if this was what didn’t make the cut for you? my god today My Life Story of Love is doing everything for me right now
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i’m watching the Patient Zero video on youtube (& i have a LOT of thoughts) but this is the first time i’ve heard the song as a whole & what’s crazy is that the part everyone plays is actually that bad but it’s made worse in the context of the rest of the song, which is…fine?
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i’ve been listening to this for weeks, seems extra pertinent now www.instagram.com/reel/DcWTixG...
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there is a capstar flea treatment commercial/ad that is a trypophobe’s NIGHTMARE. i am so sorry if you run across it 🤮
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!
Tintin cartoon
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i will say that I did know that yesterday was North Carolina Day and have known about it before…since 2025 🤣
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
EVERYONE GO GET KRISTEN’S BOOK! congrats, Kristen!!!!
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
how many written biographies do you think are about non-human animals? (this was harder to find that i anticipated) & what category do think have the most? i think horses but that’s only because i can think of a bunch of horse biographies
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if you ever think that you’re not adulting well, please watch an episode of The People’s Court, it will clear that right up EXPEDITIOUSLY 🤣
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Chris Cantwell @cdc29.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our students are interested in doing a symposium on music & resistance in America's pasts & presents. My familiarity is with the folks who wrote on labor songs, but most of them have moved on. Who would you recommend my students consider as participants? Who is working in this space? 🗃️
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
god i cannot wait to cast my vote for Angie Nixon
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Heather Winters @heatherwinters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My husband’s band is having a Domino’s fundraiser for BOGO free pizza cards. His band program has been exploding with students and they provide every student with instruments, uniforms, reeds, etc that they need for free. Every little bit helps support those kids! store.dominos.cards/54728
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Help us raise $4,000! - Blackhawk Middle School Band
Please help Blackhawk Middle School Band! We need help raising money towards uniforms, music, equipment repairs, commissions, and clinics! Your support is greatly appreciated!
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
taking a shower is so great but it’s crazy how tired taking a shower can make you feel when you are mentally (& chronically) ill. i feel completely drained but i’m clean & smell good!
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
as i’ve mentioned, i’ve been really struggling mentally these last few months. i facetimed w my mom this morning & she mentioned how she loves everything i write & that she needs to hear me speak at some point
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should let people dream of something besides labor
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Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: JVC–BAVS Early Career Mentorship Scheme; a collaboration between the Journal of Victorian Culture (JVC) & British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) to support PhDs & early career scholars in developing their first peer-reviewed journal article. More here: jvc.oup.com/2026/09/28/j...
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
y’all everything is really hard right now. & tonight’s episode of Lanterns is NOT helping
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
tfw you’re watching Florida smack the taste outta Ole Miss & then you remember that your office is in the football stadium & they want to expand it
uh-oh
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
home field (dis)advantage
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
as Fran has so brilliantly said in other places, a book is not a mirror it’s a door 
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
y’all i am CONVINCED that i have met Mr Aron (Aron Accurso) & it’s driving me crazy. he & Ms Rachel were both in NYC when i was at Columbia (she was doing a masters in music ed at NYU, he was working on Broadway?) & i was gigging ALL over the city. surely, SURELY we crossed paths???
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
so everyone loses by this fucking loser being at the game but who do we think is gonna take the L on the field, Tennessee or Texas?
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
it is somewhere between 68 and 72° (all of my weather apps couldn’t agree), i’m going for coffee & donuts (the fall kind) & while i knew that my depression was a temporary symptom of PMS, this may have cured me 🤣
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
so the update is i cried all night and cried all day today. i didn’t go to work, didn’t eat, just a full on depressive episode. but i’ve rallied myself enough to go to a work dinner and I’m hoping for the best ☺️
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Delius is just if Strauss and Vaughan Williams had a baby but that baby isn’t a human child but rather a sentient fork that’s also somehow weird about race
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
welp it’s exactly a month since i wrote this & we’re back in the same place (that place = s*icidal ideation via PMS courtesy of perimenopause & OCD 😵‍💫)
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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Frightening, and very moving. Jennifer Koh 💛
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Violinist Jennifer Koh on Her Decade-Long Struggle With a Rare Neurological Disorder (Gift Article)
For 10 years Jennifer Koh struggled to understand and treat a rare neurological disorder, while trying to maintain a full calendar onstage.
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this will do more for opera than anything that any artistic director or general manager has ever done or thought to do. it’s literally just this simple. (@mayor.nyc.gov, call me, Brooklyn-born opera scholar, will travel!)
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
some days i’m really disheartened about academic music. today is indeed one of the days.
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
*sighs in British historian* (i’m literally teaching this my doctoral seminar RIGHT NOW)
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
not long before my dad died, we made plans to go to San Francisco to visit the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church. it's impossible for me to separate my feelings about Coltrane from that of my father -- of all of the artists that he introduced me to, Coltrane was the most special
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
can i go to sleep, like, now?
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
why is it that the worst headaches are the ones you give yourself? 🥴
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NYC friends! come hear me talk about Hindemith, Tippett, & some *other stuff* 😉 at The New School on Oct 8 at 7pm !
Art, Conscience, and Crisis:
A Discussion on Tippett's A Child of Our Time and Hindemith's Mathis der Maler
Thurs. Oct 8, 2026 | 7:00 PM | FREE
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, The New School
Arnhold Hall, Room 1202
55 West 13th Street
What can music tell us about how people respond in times of fear, division, and political
upheaval, and why do these questions keep returning?
Join us for a discussion exploring Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time and Paul
Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler, two works shaped by the turmoil of 1930s Europe.
We’ll examine the historical forces surrounding their creation, the questions of faith,
conscience, humanity, and artistic responsibility at their core, and why their themes
continue to resonate across generations.
Featuring Cantor Jill Abramson of the Hebrew Union College, Musicologist
Imani Mosley of the University of Florida, and
NYCHORAL Music Director David Hayes.
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 22/09/2026
today’s a big day in hobbiton 🎂
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
y’all the internet is so silly, please continue to give me all the reasons to write about classical music & social media because what the fuck is a “piano influencer?” 🤣
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
believe me i know you don’t want to learn about citational practice at 8:30 in the morning. but you’ve given me no choice 🤣
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i had a panic attack, took a stress gummy, promptly stopped panicking. but the bad feelings still remain & i gotta say, i’m not a fan
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
just remember, she’s the one grading your work. you wouldn’t argue with her, would you?
me taking over for the 99s and the 2000s
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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Working on a book, article, or dissertation on #18thc British world? The Lewis Walpole Library offers 4-week visiting fellowships and 2-week travel grants for scholars. The deadline for applications is November 2. 🗃️ More info: walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
and this is why i’ll have a job forever 🤦🏾‍♀️
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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Over on Instagram, Judith from the Red House archive team is talking about the manuscript for Britten's piano concerto and what it tells us about the composer's life and working process: www.instagram.com/p/DdTiAihO0lV/
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i know how those in Cornwall & the southwest feel about the RNLI — you feel it in coastal Norfolk & Suffolk too. it is the best of Britain & this thread shows why
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i hate waking up anxious
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