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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is AMS-announce now members only? A colleague of mine is trying to post an announcement about a seminar and is finding it paywalled or something.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also, my IU colleague @nkahrs.bsky.social and my co-editor for the Oxford Handbook, @ericdrott.bsky.social , have articles in this issue. Many thanks to Drew Nobile and the team at Music Theory Online for their work. mtosmt.org/issues/mto.2...

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MTO 32.3: Manabe, Genre Topics as Narrative in Yoasobi’s “Idol” (2023)

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My article on Yoasobi’s “Idol” is now on Music Theory Online! It considers the role of genre-topics in narrating this song, the opening theme for the 1st season of anime Oshi no ko. Rap, trap, singer-songwriter style, J-pop otaku, and Eurobeat combine to tell the tragic, unknowable story of Ai.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Let him remain behind the scenes, please...

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Which also explains why there are so many DoorDash delivery robots crawling around even places like Bloomington.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Why is there not a high-speed train between Austin and Houston? So ridiculous to have to take these thirty-minute flights.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For context, I wrote this book about the aftermath of a nuclear disaster. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For context, I wrote this book about a nuclear accident and its aftermath. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There haven't been any public hearings about putting a nuclear reactor 37 miles from Bloomington. What expertise is in Indiana to run this? What safety measures would be in place? How would the public be notified of an accident? What plans for evacuation are there? @wfiuwtiunews.bsky.social

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Navy’s first terrestrial reactor coming to Indiana’s NWS Crane

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Only in the US would patients have such profound problems with medical debt, and only in the US would a doctor who sues 700(!) of his own patients still be elected senator.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

On pre-order on the Oxford University Press website: The Oxford Handbook of Protest Music! Many thanks to all our contributors and OUP staff. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Also in the US, even legitimate network news programs like ABC's has become a reader's digest of the Weather Channel, and CBS is done.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just watched one of these forums where some men seem unaware of just how man-splainy they are…

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I’ve had a relaxing time at an Onsen and the last thing I need to hear is the theme from the Titanic in Liszt-style piano solo…

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Presumably the governor is appointing a caretaker and avoiding influencing the special primary.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

No, because they have nuclear weapons.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Isn't Maxwell in an all-woman prison?

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I write the introduction to a collection of essays by Eileen Karmy, Catalina Sentis, Emanuel Ramírez Jaramillo, Cristóbal Allende, and Martín Farías. Many thanks to Eileen for her work in organizing and editing.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

El proyecto surgió de un taller que realizamos en la Universidad de Playa Ancha, en Valparaíso, Chile. Escribo la introducción a una colección de ensayos de Eileen Karmy, Catalina Sentis, Emanuel Ramírez Jaramillo, Cristóbal Allende y Martín Farías. Muchas gracias a Eileen por su labor de edición.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Me alegra mucho compartir que este coloquio sobre música de protesta en América Latina, editado por Eileen Karmy, ya ha sido publicado en Resonancias. Trata del carácter intertextual de esta música de protesta desde comienzos del siglo XX hasta el estallido social. resonancias.uc.cl/n-58/coloqui...

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Coloquio. Palimpsestos de la resistencia: memoria, intertextualidad y significación en las canciones políticas de América Latina - Resonancias: Revista de investigación musical

Noriko Manabe Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music nmanabe@iu.edu Eileen Karmy Departamento de Artes Integradas de la Facultad de Arte, Universidad de Playa Ancha Núcleo Milenio en Prácticas A...

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“Although Jacob Wulfson assaulted Steele on UK soil in late 2023, after the pair met on a dating app, American military police quickly took over the case and the pilot was tried by US air force prosecutors.” Does this ceding of authority also happen in Okinawa? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Bizarre questions and an all-male ‘jury’: woman strangled by US pilot in Britain tells of airbase trial

Sarah Steele comes forward to call for greater scrutiny of how US military courts are allowed to ‘rip apart’ vulnerable witnesses in the UK

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Now that I'm thinking about it, I wouldn't advise it. Tenure is serious business. A Reddit post can be seen as unserious by some scholars, who may then project that assessment to the candidate. It might also look desperate. At the least, I'd talk to a dean or senior faculty at yr institution first.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I think the problem here is unverifiability—a committee or reader has no way of knowing who really wrote the comment. A student evaluation is verifiably from that course’s pool. So as others have said, you could try including it, but I doubt it would be taken seriously.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Japan similarly has cycled through many short prime ministerships since the bubble burst in 1990, with the exceptions of Koizumi and Abe. The good thing about a revolving door at the top is that it’s harder (albeit not impossible) to install an authoritarian regime.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

What I’d like to know is: why was music studies named in the report? There are no music professors on the panel, no one’s work is mentioned—in fact, the only time “music” appears in the report is in the list of disciplines. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Professors Say Vanderbilt Report Misrepresents Their Work

The report on the state of humanities scholarship has generated a lot of debate in academic circles and received backlash from the leading anthropology association.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Hey @foxsports.com.web.brid.gy, I only watched 16 min of the Netherlands-Japan #WorldCup match, but that was long enough to hear your announcers calling the Japanese players "passive" and commenting on their height (half of the squad is over 6' tall). Could you cut it with the #racist stereotypes?

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

She also doesn't seem to have finished her PhD, which she started seven years ago...

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'm less concerned about her social media profile from a few years ago and more concerned about the fact that she doesn't seem to have held any full-time job for more than two years, per her LinkedIn profile. She's not someone to ditch a Dominican incumbent serving a heavily Hispanic district over.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Not crazy about Mamdani's latest endorsement of Avila Chevalier over Espaillat. She doesn't seem to have much in the way of steady work experience. Espaillat is a self-made Dominican immigrant and the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus w/ decades of service in elected offices.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Marcos's Edifice Complex, when they built propagandistic buildings named after themselves, took place between 1966-1981, mostly during the height of their power. Sometimes a propagandistic power grab is just that, not someone knowing that their time is almost up.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Interesting, but I don't agree with: "Strongmen at the height of their game don’t need the ballroom. They don’t need to rename the Kennedy Center after themselves. They don’t need the rebranded monuments and memorials....That’s Marcos in Manila in 1985."

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

20 yrs ago, Princeton had a similar cap on As. The cap applied to the department rather than a course, so that seminars could still have many As (but intro courses, no). They reversed that policy, though, bcs it disadvantaged Princeton students in post-undergrad competitions. It doesn't work.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

What did France do to deserve Charles Kushner, a felon and disbarred attorney?

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Does Hassett understand that this reflects 1) price perhaps more than volume and 2) people using credit because they no longer have enough cash/money in the bank?

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I agree--not only did 5 out of 7 of the challengers win, but they beat the incumbents by huge margins.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

So much for the influence of Mitch Daniels/Mike Pence in #Indiana.

Incumbents aggressively primaried against by Trump are largely losing.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

To make light of someone’s brutal murder is bad enough, but he’s also making light of the loss of thousands of people’s jobs on top of that.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Here’s the Reporters sans frontiers ranking. The US is in the third quintile and has the lowest ranking among the G7. rsf.org/en/index

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Index

RSF's World Press Freedom Index aims to compare the level of press freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

When I wrote my book on the antinuclear movement in Japan, I titled it The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, because it wasn’t. Among other factors, Japan has Press Clubs and the Secrets Law. But Japan now outranks the US (#64) on press freedoms. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05...

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Japan overtakes U.S. in global press freedom index

The report found press freedom has sunk to a 25-year low, with 52% of the countries and territories being categorized as in 'difficult' or 'very serious' situations.

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Excellent reporting from Indiana on Trump’s endorsing primary challengers in the state senate in retribution for not supporting redistricting. Talk about overreach. www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/p...

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The Trump endorsement faces its biggest test yet in Indiana. Will it work?

May 5 will finally bring answers to the question: Will the Trump endorsement work miracles in these lowly Indiana state senate races?

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Most European operas are already about that

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Also, what happened in Hungary won't happen in the US, as the US is not a parliamentary system. It's also extremely rare that one gets a 2/3 majority in the US Senate; the last such majority was 1965-67.

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