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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

CFP: North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music | Wednesday June 23 – Friday June 25, 2027, at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Please submit proposals by email no later than January 15, 2027 to nac19cm@gmail.com. sites.google.com/view/nac19cm

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NAC19CM

Call for Papers

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Manuel Neuer’s weekly salary is 4x the population of Curaçao. That goal was huge.

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Honored to serve as the next editor of the Journal of Musicology. Send us your boldest work!

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Music faculty: PLEASE resist the urge to artificially generate concert flyers this academic year. Just pretend it’s last month and you’ve never heard of Chat gee pee tee.

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Whoever is pounding those drums at the Champions League final is making the match sound more thrilling than it looks.

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The metaphorical use of the word “friction” has officially become an AI tell.

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Sneak peak of recent research: chronophotography as art VS science. Bragaglia, "Typist," 1911 (left); and Nouneberg, freeze-frame of Cortot's hands in motion, 1928 (right).

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Available online now: the new Spring 2026 issue of the "Journal of Musicology." online.ucpress.edu/jm/issue/43/2

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Volume 43 Issue 2 | Journal of Musicology | University of California Press

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

No-context archival find: the pianist's body, pictured in reduced form as a "brachial pendulum." source: Breithaupt, "Natural Piano-technic," 1909.

Brachial pendulum. picture of piano keyboard

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

What bothers me the most is the “‘8pm primetime Eastern’ capitulation to entertainment capitalism” of it all.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

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Resonance | University of California Press

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

My new article looks at sight-reading (déchiffrage) as a peculiar form of performative labor—especially for female pianists at the Paris Conservatoire. Happy to share a pdf! online.ucpress.edu/ncm/article-...

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Déchiffreuses

While sight-reading remains one of the most fundamental skills for a keyboardist to cultivate, its emergence as a form of musical literacy remains underexplored in musicology. Its outsized coverage in...

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My library satire/body horror short story is live on Midcult* www.midcult.net/jacek-blaszk...

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Stacks by Jacek Blaszkiewicz — Midcult*

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My Dept is in the midst of a massive curricular overhaul. One of the changes was to our 3-semester music history survey. We've compressed it into 2 semesters, freeing the last for Topics. I'm offering one on urban sonic geography in Fall 2026. Anyone who's taught a class like this, LMK how it went!

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Archival gem: from Ted Nelson, "Computer Lib/Dream Machines," 1974.

Computers don't actually think. You just think they think. (We Think.)

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

If you asked me what I’ve been up to recently, I’d say “nothing much, parenting and writing stories.” Pleased to see “Party in Tiltsville, Florida” reprinted in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social More stuff is coming! www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-7/pa...

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Party in Tiltsville, Florida — The Argyle Literary Magazine

by Jacek Blaszkiewicz “The palm trees flash red and blue. Like the intoxicated driver negotiating with the police, they sway, feigning stability against the night breeze.”

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Hot take: let’s thank Tim Chally for the free publicity??

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Turandot in concert at Music Hall Detroit. Excellent singers sang excellently; projected visuals of palaces and ponds delivered in 4k crispness. Gongs gonged, pagodas pagoded. And confetti for the happy couple! Opera uncritically celebrating its own Opera-ness.

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

A socialist mayor who succeeds at snow removal is SO MUCH more important to the socialist cause than a socialist senator who says the right thing.

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

PROOFS PROOFS PROOFS (article coming out in 19th-Century Music next month)

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Is *all* theater "hybrid" theater? My new review is up on H-France: h-france.net/vol26reviews...

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

Close Reading Is For Everyone
Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant

Call for Pitches

Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail?

If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step.

We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it.

Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

“Perhaps what the score most resembles is a topographical map, with the arcs like a distant outcropping of mountains and the arrows at the bottom right bringing sketched-out directions to mind.” @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social on political possibilities of graphic notation.

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Sight and Sound, by Olivia Giovetti

The political possibilities of graphic notation

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

My new story "Mieszko" is up on Twin Flame Literary: twinflameliterary.com/mieszko/

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Where can you donate to MN anti-ICE protesters? Anyone know?

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The problem with imperialism is that it violates borders while also enforcing them, like a snake shedding its skin while swallowing a mouse whole.

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

One of my class assignments is to rewrite mvt 5 of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique “but it’s Gen Z.” And it never, ever disappoints.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Hannah Smart on the 900-word David Foster Wallace sentence she's spent the last year diagramming, against the advice of well-meaning family and friends: lareviewofbooks.org/article/nothing…

The 900-word sentence by David Foster Wallace in Mister Squishy written out in full

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Coming soon in 19th-Century Music: a cultural history of sight-reading at the Paris Conservatoire

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Call for Papers: Global Musical Modernities and Local Agency, 7-10 May 2026, Toronto www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/09/call-for-p…

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Have you checked out our fall sale yet? Save 50% on books & journal issues with coupon FALL25. buff.ly/Bk390cu

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

"Communism must become ecological. And yet this argument is incomplete if it does not include its corollary: political ecology can become truly revolutionary only by becoming communist"

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Cosmos, Production, and Anarchy

[book-strip index="1"] In our era of climate change and global environmental catastrophes, is communism relevant anymore? At first glance, there are at least three reasons to doubt it. The first reas...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 27/09/2025

Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.

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What’s Happening to Reading?

For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I’m presenting new material—on “The Science of Sight-Reading: Notation and/as Ocular Technology in fin-de-siècle France”— at the American Musicological Society Midwest Chapter on Oct. 11. The conference will be livestreamed. amsmidwest.weebly.com/fall-2025-co...

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Fall 2025 Conference

AMS-Midwest Fall 2025 Conference (Hybrid), hosted by Oakland University Date : October 11, 2025 Host : Oakland University, Rochester, MI Note : The meeting will be held in person and virtually...

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Intense-looking slide from my upcoming talk,"The Science of Sight-Reading: Notation and/as Ocular Technology in fin-de-siècle France."The hands are Alfred Cortot's, recorded in slow motion then freeze-framed bar by bar.The slurs in the score are not phrasing; they denote lateral/vertical motion.

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Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Autumn 2025 issue is out! Read articles by Martha Feldman, James E. K. Parker, Anne M. Thell, Jennifer Rae Greeson, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Wendy Anne Lee, and Brian Massumi. criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/past_issues/...

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Very proud to be able to share, via @dissentmag.bsky.social, Marshall Berman's essay "Sympathy for the Devil," about the Pentagon exorcism, The Rolling Stones, Faust, and the culture of the 1960s. It's been out of print for forty years, and it's a masterpiece www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the ’60s, and the Tragedy of Development - Dissent Magazine

Our day and night at the Pentagon, like Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit, marked a new awareness of ominous, fearful powers that had to be dealt with before our dreams of freedom and self-fulfi...

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Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A kind review of my book is out in the Journal of Modern History. I’m reviewed by James H. Johnson, whose own book, “Listening in Paris: A Cultural History,” I read as a graduate student and have referenced and taught ever since. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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