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Scott Spencer

@thescont.bsky.social
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Music professor (ethnomusicology and etc.) at USC’s Thornton School of Music. I research at the intersections of oral traditions and digital technologies. Focus: Irish music; jazz; soundscapes; digital humanities; media and identity. Projects posted below.

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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Tenured!!!! Whew!
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I am honored to be appointed to the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities for the academic years 2025-7. The theme of this cohort is "Sites of Inquiry" and I will be working on my next book project, "Sound in Sacred Spaces."
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
USC's Musicology department at the Society for American Music conference, Tacoma. Presenters included Alison Maggart, James Delorey and Scott Spencer. Maggart: Becoming-Immersed: Soundbaths Delory: Meredith Willson’s Lost “O. O. McIntyre” Radio Suite Spencer: Bagpipe Bands in Public Memorials
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It’s a deal
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Ok snafu around the registration but here is El Producto: youtu.be/f2tdQqb48v8?...
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
- Giulia Bratosin and Scott Spencer (USC), “Digital Humanities in the World Music Classroom: Fostering Peer-Built Diversity and Inclusivity.”
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
- Maia Law (USC), “Syncretism Through Serenades: The Impact of Spanish Colonization on Filipino Folk Music.” - Aydin Quach (USC), “Orienting Towards Techno-Asiatics: The Place of Affect in Asian North American Consumption of Electronic Dance Music.”
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
- Avery Robinson (USC), “Black Music Metamorphosis: The Revitalization of Enslaved African Musical Traditions Through Stepping.” - Dr. León F. García Corona (USC), “In and Out of Academia: Exploring Career Paths and Opportunities.”
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
USC Music had a great presence at the Society for Ethnomusicology local chapter annual conference. Four papers and a featured presentation - 10% of the conference, and we don't even have an ethnomusicology program! Here are Maia, Aydin, Avery, Léon, Giulia and me-self at UCLA. Paper titles below.
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I'm giving a talk today for the Museum of Newport Irish History - Monday Feb. 24 6ET/3PT. Topic: Traditional Music and Irish-American Identity at the Dawn of the Recording Age. www.NewportIrishHistory.org Come join via Zoom!
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Soundscapes class: testing out acoustic spaces with various instruments to see how space changed performance practice and audience reception.
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I'm honored to be giving a talk for the Museum of Newport Irish History on Feb. 24. Topic: Traditional Music and Irish-American Identity at the Dawn of the Recording Age. Come join via zoom! www.NewportIrishHistory.org
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
USC as well
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Kerith Spencer Shapiro @kerithsings.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Thanks to #JewishwomenofLA for the shout out! And Shabbat shalom, friends. ✡️🧿🪬 www.instagram.com/p/DDNdbMrTpt... #JewSky #jewishspirituality
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
World Music class win: Cardin Chung (USC Dance) demonstrates a glove he developed, which translates motion and resistance to sound.
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I played in a folk music band in St. Paul, MN. We volunteered to play for a fundraiser before a St. Paul Saints (baseball) game for the local hospital’s childrens’ burn unit. It was a pig roast. They roasted a pig for the burned kids. Roasted pig next to roasted kids. The band got it. Only the band
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My amazing spouse is developing a Starter Pack on Jewish Spirituality - BlueSky is good at catching and forming newly arrived communities! Please send to likely suspects. go.bsky.app/8wfKtSr
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Jewish Spirituality
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thanks for this ! I'd love to be part of the cool crowd-
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Modern technology worship rituals pt. 2: Siwen Xi sets them up and knocks them down. A comps defense in Music Teaching and Learning at USC.
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thank you! Will do. Kate Galloway springs to mind: @kategalloway.bsky.social
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Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @balarag.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Created a starter pack for Ethnomusicology studies. Please let me know if you want to add to the list. go.bsky.app/9c1wupA #Ethnomusicology #CrossCulturalmusicology #Culturalmusicology #Musicstudies #Starterpack
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thanks so much for making this, Bala! I've been hoping for this! I'd love to be considered for inclusion.
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
New title drop: “Bookshelfiality: An Ontological Tinting of Shelf”
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#HBWALHS? (How Bad Would Adorno Lose His Shit?)
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Modern technology worship rituals: The dissertation proposal defense.
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Thank you!
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Oooo!! Oooo! Pick me!
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Now THAT is a library! Bonus: owl-themed acroteria! (acroterae? acroterums?)
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’ve read that there is still an original spring in Washington Square Park - and to see it you have to open a closet in the basement of one of the apartment buildings on the northeast corner.
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
And a Canal (street)!!!
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Thanks for setting this up! I may qualify, sort of. Interested for sure!
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
And thanks!
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I’d love to be in the cool club!
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Wooohooooo!!!! Congratulations!
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Repost: Here's a fun DH project. I have 150 world music students do fieldwork papers 2x each semester. So I've been asking them to upload their info into a Scalar platform. It is still pretty rudimentary, but may be a fun tool for better understanding music in LA. scalar.usc.edu/works/world-mus...
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Music is MSG for emotion. #UpYoursLeonardBMeyer
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Repost: New article: “Komitas, Folksong Collection and National Identity in Times of Great Change” (with Manuk Avedikyan). Yerevan State Conservatory After Komitas, keynote talk.
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Repost: Presented “Capturing O’Neill” at the American Conference of Irish Studies #ACIS2023 on the future of Digital Humanities in our field. On the panel with Nicholas Wolf and Mairéad Byrne. Watch this space for more. #DigitalHumanities #IrishTraditionalMusic #Musicology #Ethnomusicology
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Also proud: This may be the first time that “The Shitposting of Jazz to Come” Facebook group is cited in a footnote. #Jazz #academia #ethnomusicology #music #musicology #shitposting #meme #GiantSteps #JohnColtrane
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
New chapter in the book Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music. “Meme and Variations: How Video Mashups of John Coltrane’s ‘Giant Steps’ Became a Thing.” Bringing ethnography to media research, to give the field of ethnomusicology some tools to deal with music and moving image.
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
A trip to the USC Special Collections for the Research Materials and Methods class. Music students in a candy store! Thanks to Andrew Justice for setting us up and guiding us through.
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Catching up on posts: World Music class at its best! Thanks to Aarav and Tej for demonstrating tabla, thal, and dhol !
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Thanks to Kazan Taiko for a great presentation and demonstration in World Music class recently! Ki-yah!
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
A musical whiplash day at USC! Tinikling (Philippine dance) demo in WM class with Maia Ruiz-Law, lecture on Sligo fiddling in NYC. Then a reimagining Ellington talk (colleagues McCurdy and Garcia Corona) and amazing concert with multiple student ensembles and arrangers and faculty collaborators.
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Scott Spencer @thescont.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
New publication! Special Issue: Access and Participation in the Traditional Music of Ireland and Scotland www.ictmd.ie/journal Which includes an article I co-wrote: Policing Irish Music: Capt. Francis O’Neill and Traditional Music in Chicago - Mike O’Malley and Scott Spencer
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Ethnomusicology Ireland — ICTMD Ireland
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