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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Our article “A genre-specific structure of subjective feeling in music listening” has passed 1,000 views & downloads! To learn how music and emotion studies could be more inclusive using particularist approaches, become reader 1,001! Read: doi.org/10.1177/1029... #musicresearch #musicandemotion

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My personal website now has a page where people can keep up with my current projects. To find out what I'm up to these days, check out my "Current Projects" page: thomasgravesmusic.wordpress.com/current-proj... #musicresearch #EarlyCareerResearcher

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I’m excited to announce that the LSE Music Research Network now has a webpage on the LSE website! We aim to bring together researchers on music from across LSE. www.lse.ac.uk/south-asia-c... #musicresearch #socialsciences

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The AAM of my book chapter ‘Love from India’ is now out of embargo! This means anyone can now read a pre-publication version of my chapter, free of charge! Read here: eprints.gla.ac.uk/324673/ #IndiaPakistan #musicresearch #digitalhumanities #socialmediaresearch #musicandemotion #greenOA

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I'm pleased to share that I now have a personal website. It contains information about my research background, publications, teaching, and blog posts. thomasgravesmusic.wordpress.com/about/ #musicresearch #website #EarlyCareerResearcher

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Happy to be a member of the LSE Religion Scholars Network, and excited to continue to participate! www.lse.ac.uk/rgs/Scholars... #ReligiousStudies #ResearchNetwork

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My review of Jarjour's book "Syriac Chant in Aleppo" has been published in Ethnomusicology Forum. I recommend the book for anyone interested in the circulation of musical emotions, or what "mode" means in music. Read my review: doi.org/10.1080/1741... #ethnomusicology #musicresearch #bookreview

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Today I presented my paper “Presentation, presence, and the present: the many meanings of hāzirī at Chishti dargahs and qawwālī performances in South Asia” at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology conference at @kingsmusic.bsky.social #ethnomusicology #musicresearch #spirituality

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Exciting day! Today my copy of Music, Mortality, Memory arrived. You can buy the book here: lnkd.in/ey8qVZtZ You can read a pre-publication version of my chapter on Durham’s Open Access repository here: lnkd.in/eb4XbQMa #musicresearch #book #death #anthropology #ethnomusicology #greenopenaccess

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Our article is now assigned to volume 30, issue 1! doi.org/10.1177/1029... Citation: Graves, T. A., Eerola, T., Clayton, M., Nizami, S. M., & Rafiq, M. U. (2026). A genre-specific structure of subjective feeling in music listening: What do qawwālī listeners feel? Musicae Scientiae, 30(1), 3-26.

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A genre-specific structure of subjective feeling in music listening: What do qawwālī listeners feel? - Thomas A. Graves, Tuomas Eerola, Martin Clayton, Syed Murshid Nizami, Muhammad Usama Rafiq, 2026

Most studies of subjective feeling categories in musical emotion use dimensional or categorical models to describe the different kinds of emotions induced by mu...

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Had a great time yesterday at #OxFOS talking about my work with Annayah Prosser and Madeleine Pownall on open reaearch and positivism creep! Lots of interesting stuff on open qualitative research and AI. Photos by Domi Smithson and Annayah Prosser #openresearch #library #Oxford

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My chapter "Death, Jubilation, and Juxtaposition in Qawwālī" is now published in "Music, Mortality, Memory", edited by Matthew McCullough and Douglas Davies. Publisher version: brill.com/display/book... AAM available on Durham's research repository: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4989911

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I’m excited to see Laufey in concert next month, and couldn’t agree more with her Grammy speech. We must value our music and arts education system. It can’t take any more cuts. youtu.be/ZfJjDz3RQnY?... To read my full perspective, see my LSE HE blog post from last year: lnkd.in/ekrFZz36 #Grammys

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This year’s British Forum for Ethnomusicology (@bfeadmin.bsky.social) conference programme dropped today, and I’m delighted to be sharing a session with my long-time friend, singing teacher, and colleague Budhaditya Bhattacharyya (@ragameister.bsky.social) #ethnomusicology #conference #music

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

What makes qawwali such a powerful musical tradition? My new blog post for LSE South Asia blog explores what kinds of emotions people feel when they listen to qawwali at Sufi shrines in India: blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20... #music #research #blog #spirituality #emotion #qawwali #southasia

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Do different musics create different emotions? Now published: the first quantitative article on the South Asian Sufi music qawwali to be published in a major music psychology journal! Read the article open access here: lnkd.in/g7Dxpw3Z Data are available here: lnkd.in/gQK2RCJp #musicandemotion

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Two new publications in one week! If you’re interested in the arts and the current UK universities crisis check out my blog post: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat... If you are interested in what open research means for non-positivist researchers, read our preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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We overlook music departments at our peril - LSE Higher Education

As more university music departments face the axe, Thomas Graves points out what we’re all missing when we fail to recognise the unique value of music education With UK higher education (HE) in financ...

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

With the news that Nottingham is just the latest uni to close music courses, @thomasgraves.bsky.social explores why music degrees seem to be such an easy target for the axe - and why that's a tragedy blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The University of Nottingham is the latest UK HEI to propose suspending the music department. Another in a long line of attacks on university music. Don’t let them get away with it! Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/stop-the-s... #university #UKHE #music

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Delighted to share our latest research on consonance. We asked participants from India and UK to rate how “tense” different harmonic intervals sound. We found that musicians across both cultures agreed almost perfectly on which intervals feel tense or relaxed, however, ....

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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Academic publishing is now a marketised system where charging £9000 for a single paper isn't beyond the pale. A new book by Samuel A. Moore proposes an alternative: a commons-based, scholar-led approach. Read a #review by @thomasgraves.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

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Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? - Impact of Social Sciences

Publishing Beyond examines the ills of a marketised system of academic publishingand outlines how commons-based approaches could be an alternative.

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This week I facilitated a workshop on Open Research for post-fieldwork Anthropology PhD students at LSE. It was really great to hear about their research projects and discuss scholar-led publishing, open access, repositories, and the ethics of data sharing. #openresearch #anthropology #ethnography

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Really interesting! Not sure i’d want to be responsible for participants having needles stuck in their throat, but the data is bound to be fascinating youtu.be/JkBV8GoPWXY?...

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The Science Behind Vocal Distortion: Will Ramos of Lorna Shore

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

In Trump’s USA, someone who migrates to the US to marry a US citizen can apply for a green card immediately. In the UK, Labour want to extend the time it takes for a spouse to get Indefinite Leave to Remain to 10 years! Those centrists who support these new immigration rules should think on that.

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Ali Akbar Razi - master of soz - strikes again this Muharram! I really love Soz o Salaam - perhaps even more than qawwali with instruments! Those overlapping voices and slight discrepancies really stir something inside. youtu.be/9YAVmIuvgRk?...

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Soz o Salaam - Azmat Nabi ke Deen ki Dikhlaa Gaye Hussain (AS) - Ali Akbar Razi Qawwal aur Humanava

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Let’s talk about social anxiety in ethnographic research. I’ve always frozen up in social situations that seemed important. This seems like a problem in research, especially in fieldwork where there are certain people you want to speak to. Can an anxious person be a good ethnographer? #ethnography

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UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

With the last #OSFest25 session this afternoon, thank you to everyone who's been involved in each thought-provoking session and our co-hosts @lselibrary.bsky.social and @crick.ac.uk. If you attended, hopefully you've taken away something useful. Let's keep up the dialogue about #OpenScience! 🔬📃

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

They were some really interesting topics and it was a pleasure to be involved in the organisation. “Positivism creep” is a thing! #OSF25

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Don’t let them come for Keele’s music department again.

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Folkloristan @folkloristan.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Folks working on curation in museums or archives, we need a little bit of advice! Please reply to the tweet if you’re down to chat. Reshare for reach please! #archives #museums #curators

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

With the government’s attack on trans women’s right to exist today, I want to affirm that, despite the chilling headlines, and the change in the law, trans women are women. Trans colleagues and friends, you are not alone.

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This week I taught the last lecture of my first module as a convenor. I had a part-time contract to teach “World Music Traditions” at Durham University. The students were great, and I come away reaffirmed in my love of teaching, especially of teaching music! #teaching #music #university #academia

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Publication alert! The book was published back in October, but an AAM of the chapter is now available Open Access from the University of Glasgow’s repository: eprints.gla.ac.uk/325506/ This short theoretical piece explores how music facilitates interfaith friendships! #musicresearch #openaccess

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Music and interfaith friendship: lessons from qawwali - Enlighten Publications

Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

youtu.be/skXlKxjlUoo?... What a fantastic collaboration - combines a bunch of things i love in music: lyrics with a life-affirming message ✅ heavy metal with a fat riff ✅ South Asia ✅ Japanese anime music ✅ Urdu ✅ tierce de picardie ✅ - Top marks to Bloodywood and Babymetal! #music #fusion #metal

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Bloodywood ft. @BABYMETAL - Bekhauf (Official Music Video)

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Kelly Jakubowski @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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We're living in a world where diversification is quickly being devalued. If you're asking, what can I do as a #musicscience researcher to show my commitment to diversifying research, check out our article, out today in Music & Science, identifying key gaps & promising trends: doi.org/10.1177/2059...

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMANITIES at Cardiff University Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here /1

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Great news for academic composers, artists, practice-based researchers, and teaching-focused academics!

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Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

On the train up to Durham ahead of teaching my first lecture as a module convenor (and first time teaching in nearly 2 years) tomorrow - excited and nervous! World Music Traditions here we come! #teaching #university