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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am a very serious college professor

A slideshow slide about the Schirmer's anthology of 24 Italian Songs and Arias, featuring images of Hilary Duff in Raise Your Voice, Beyonce's Cowboy Carter, TikTok's iconic 7-octave soprano Calyx Kre, and some emojis.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not one but TWO graphics about our program!

A half-page advertisement for the University of Tennessee's Musicology Area.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Colleagues, please encourage your interested students to apply for our M.M. in Musicology here at the University of Tennessee! We offer a competitive stipend, fee and tuition waivers, and medical insurance through our Graduate Teaching Assistantship.

An advertisement for the 2026–27 Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Musicology, which includes a stipend of up to $28,134 plus tuition waiver and medical coverage.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The big rock outside of the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus decorated in honor of Dolly Parton.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Watching fireworks in the park, the Samuel Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915 aura is so strong rn

People sitting on a grassy park waiting for fireworks against the Knoxville skyline

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Rocky Toooop you’ll always be home sweet hooome to meeee

The view of Knoxville, TN from Paul’s new apartment

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Eastman musicology and Darren Mueller advisee reunion at the AMS Pop Music Study Group Junior Scholar Symposium in Cleveland this past week!

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

An artifact from my very first AMS conference! Back when I was a wee first year Master’s student still figuring out what musicology is. 🥹 That was such an exciting time, and I can’t wait to guide my own Master’s students through their first conference experiences!

The program and abstract booklet from the 2019 American Musicological Society meeting in Boston.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Photos with my advisor and partner! Yaaaaaaay!

Dr. Flood with his advisor, Dr. Darren Mueller.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I’m grateful to announce that I’ve accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Tennessee! I’m looking forward to becoming a (paid) Volunteer and joining the stellar faculty at the University’s Natalie L. Haslam College of Music in the fall.

A photo of Dr. Flood in front of the Natalie L. Haslam College of Music

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Dissertation printed and submitted to ProQuest, exit paperwork signed, keys returned, farewells in process. All that’s left is commencement and conferral. Thanks for a great five years, Eastman. xoxo Dr./Prof. Flood

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

If you ignore the location of this pic I kinda ate here

A mirror selfie at a bathroom sink. I’m wearing, a black turtleneck tucked into a pair of blue jeans with a brown belt.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Needed to read this today as I continue my pre-defense revisions.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Meanwhile, at the Rochester NY #DragRace viewing party

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

We brought Stewie (our 16yo beauty) with us to my partner’s family’s house for the holiday. She has a whole new house to explore but she just wants to loaf on the carpet floor.

The backside of a cat nonchalantly lounging on a carpet floor.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Just submitted the fair copy of my dissertation! “‘United By Music’: Europeanism, Migration, and Belonging through the Eurovision Song Contest, 1990–2024.”

Cover page of my dissertation.

"United By Music":
Europeanism, Migration, and Belonging through the Eurovision Song Contest, 1990-2024
by
Paul David Flood
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Supervised by Professor Darren Mueller
Department of Musicology
Eastman School of Music
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York
2026

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Huge news for Albanian, Canadian, and Albanian-Canadian pop girlies in my top songs of 2025.

My Spotify Wrapped.
Top Artists: PinkPantheress, CMAT, Sahati, Addison Rae, and Tate McRae.
Top songs: Për Kon (by Sahati), Revolving Door (by Tate McRae), Again Again (by Sahati), Zjerm (by Shkodra Elektronike), and Tavo akys (by Katarsis).

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Selfie of a lil guy who 1. just got a haircut; and 2. finished writing his dissertation!!!! 15 days until I submit the fair copy and 123 days until my defense. (I know, my institution's conferral deadlines are wonky). In the meantime, catch me in revision hell.

A selfie of Paul in an outdoor shopping center.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Happy AMS Week! I'll be presenting some dissertation(/future book project?) material on the Race, Nation, and Identity panel on Friday at 4pm. My talk will be of particular interest to folks thinking between popular music studies, global music history, and Afro-diasporic studies.

Paul David Flood. Paper: "White and Black Blues: The 1990 Eurovision Song Contest and the Prospect of European (Racial) Integration" in the session Race, Nation, and Identity at AMS 2025. Friday, November 7 at 4pm, Lake Superior A, Hyatt Minneapolis.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This is my third time on campus this semester and I think that’s beautiful

A selfie of Paul sitting at his library study carrel.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Turns out SEM’s conference hotel is the hotel where they filmed scenes of The Hunger Games. Someone page Chad Michaels quick

Image of the interior of the Marriott Marquis Atlanta

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Remember when North Macedonia tried to send the late great Romani singer Esma Redžepova to Eurovision with a song that glorified the ruling nationalist party’s controversial urban development project? If not (or even if you do for some reason), come hear my paper at SEM on Friday morning!

Eastman Musicology at the Society for Ethnomusicology 2025.
Paul David Flood, Ph.D. Candidate.
Paper: Music, Our Empire: Skopje 2014 and the Politicization of Roma.
Session: Historical Soundscapes II.
Friday, October 24 at 8:30am.
M303, Marriott Marquis.
Atlanta, GA.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Spent my morning with some excellent students at Roberts Wesleyan University! I gave a guest lecture on one of my diss chapters, and the students were eager to critique notions of representation, sameness, and "world music." Thanks to my brilliant colleague Dr. Eleanor Price for the invite.

A title slide that says "Race, Genre, and the Uncertainties of Representation in the Eurovision Song Contest. Paul David Flood, Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. Roberts Wesleyan University, October 6, 2025.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Roc and Buf folks: Come celebrate Palestrina’s 500th with Voices this weekend AND at NY ACDA next month! Also feat. Bach, Brahms, Bruckner, Pearsall, Poulenc, and Witt. Friday Sep. 26 at Holy Trinity in Buffalo, 7pm. Sunday Sep. 28 at Incarnate Word in Rochester, 4pm. Friday Oct. 17 at NY ACDA.

Promotional poster for “Palestrina at 500” by Voices, a professional choir in Rochester, NY conducted by William Weinert.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Music studies besties! Celebrating our dear friend @queertrumpeter.bsky.social’s wedding this evening 🥹🥲💖 @alejandrinammedina.bsky.social

A photo of Alejandrina M. Medina, Morgan Bates, and Paul David Flood standing and smiling together at Morgan’s wedding.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Googling yourself is wild because apparently you’ll find photos of yourself that you didn’t even know existed! Here’s me chairing a panel at IASPM-US/PopCon 2025 in LA this past March. Thank god my thinking/listening face lowkey serves. (📸 Joe Mabel)

Me with my hand on my chin as I chair the “Export Music and Non-Domestic Style” panel at the 2025 IASPM-US and Pop Conference joint meeting in Los Angeles, California in March 2025.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Proofs are in! Catch my article on Afro-Swedishness in/and Eurovision in next month’s issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies. If you’re prepping a syllabus on popular music, European culture and politics, Black transnationalisms, or something related, please consider assigning this!

PAUL DAVID FLOOD
Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
"Everybody Wanna Move Like Us!"
Performing Afro-Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
ABSTRACT From 2019 through 2021, the Swedish public elected three consecutive Afro-Swedish artists with gospel songs to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest: John Lundvik with his song "Too Late For Love"; The Mamas with their song "Move"; and Tusse with his song "Voices." While these globally mediated representations of Afro-Sweden reflected both the increasing popularity of gospel music in Sweden and the nation's multiracial landscape, they also mirrored an ongoing cultural resistance movement against the rise of assimilationist, anti-migrant, and colorblind politics in Sweden. Through musical analysis, fan and critical reception, and accounts from the artists themselves, this article examines how these artists drew from Black American musical styles and aesthetics, specifically gospel music, in their attempts to represent Afro-Swedishness while ultimately serving Sweden's colorblind agenda. These three artists' consecutive performances in the contest can indeed be understood as meaningful specters of representation that ostensibly resist assimilationist racial politics in Sweden. However, their participation on behalf of a nation that continually marginalizes them, based on centuries-old constructs of Swedish white supremacy, placed the political meaning of their participation into question. The author interrogates the longstanding expectation that Eurovision songs by Black artists must adhere to palatable modes of sonic Blackness in order to achieve success. This article thus reveals that while these Afro-Swedish artists were indeed representatives of a progressive and multicultural Swedish people, they inadvertently served an increasingly conservative state's soft power play amid a moment of reckoning with the nation's racial

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

North Macedonia’s response to the Spice Girls in Eurovision 2000 was iconic—for all the wrong reasons. Nevertheless, this hit platinum in my household.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I may be losing my mind trying to finish my dissertation but I just got a haircut so at least I’m cute

A selfie of me outside with a fresh haircut

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Now enjoying a tea by the lake in Zurich. Pretty stuff! Back to the US tomorrow and Rochester on Thursday.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Some photos from my last 36 hours in Basel. This was an AMAZING week (albeit the incredibly stressful last 15mins of the Final) spent with the most incredible colleagues and friends!

My view in the Arena+ Eurovision Final viewing party.

A group of Eurovision scholars enjoying Sunday brunch together.

A Palestinian demonstration in Marktplatz, Basel.

Some buildings along the Rhein, adorned by a beautiful blue sky.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

My top 10 going into tonight’s Final!

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Day one of our Eurovision research salon! Grateful for such wonderful, brilliant, and inspiring friends and colleagues in the small world of Eurovision studies.

A group photo featuring six people smiling on a couch together.

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

#Eurovision scholars in Basel predict their semifinal 1 qualifiers: cc @drjessc.bsky.social

A yellow piece of loose leaf paper containing five people’s predictions for tonight’s Eurovision qualifiers

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

A year ago today! So grateful for the invitation to join Malmö University’s School of Arts and Communication as a Visiting Scholar last year. There, I gave a talk on one of my dissertation chapters. Very excited that an article version of this chapter will be published later this year!

A photo of me presenting “‘Everybody Wanna Move Like Us!’: Performing Afro-Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest” at Malmö University last year.

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