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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mamdanis gonna destroy western values and culture Mamdani: here's like 70000 tickets to the met

Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Related: if you have a postdoc app that asks for a 2 page research proposal let applicants know if that includes citations/bibliography or not!

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Is there any ethnomusicological/cultural studies (really any field, but these seem like the two mostly likely) writings about people participating in musical cultures that they don't enjoy? Like a person who attends raves just because of the community?

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Also if you are gonna right a sex jam about being horny you shouldnt write the second verse about making small talk on a second date

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

One of the worst parts of liking emo is I have to text my wife shit like "aren't we amphibians just killed it"

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

They hate to see me rolling down their street (im usually blasting free jazz pretty loudly, it generally disrupts the peace)

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is a good piece, but the most surprising thing about it is that Paul krugman knows who chvrhes is

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Academic and Librarian Friends: If I am citing two articles both cowritten by scholars A and B (with no other additional authors), but the first article lists scholar A as first author and then the second article lists scholar B as the first author, are they cited together separated alaphabetically

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Fascinated at the work "jazz-playing" is doing in the headline to this obituary...I imagine the now blueskyless Dale Chapman would have plenty to say about it

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

For wedding prep I've had to make three loads of focaccia in three days. As I began prep on the third loaf I quietly whispered to myself Focac-a-trios (pronounced like menage-a-trios) My fiance did not find it as amusing as I did

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Timeline is a bizzare mix of NY joy, Harden slander, and Sonny Rollins tributes rn Peak "a jazz legend just died and half of the time line is distraught and half the time line could not care less"

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Some may say this chapter of American history has closed, but if Sonny taught us anything, it is more open than ever

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The kids are, as the kids say, glazing me

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

uhhh, maybe change that awards' name???

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I am now "buying fig newtons because they are a sweet treat but not a sweet treat that I enjoy that much so I will only eat a responsible amount" years old

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Huge thanks for @swimintosound.bsky.social for writing a recap on EmoCon!!! Some really lovely quotes here from presenters and attendees!!! swimintothesound.com/blog/2026/4/...

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I just heard a line that I think broke the "unfortunately a bar" meter "We're having sex and the wettest thing is my eyeballs" Equal parts disgusting as evocative, painfully descriptive and utterly repulsive

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Didn't do much EmoCon posting here but goddamn what a weekend!!!

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Dan DiPiero @dandipiero.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

My lecture at the rock hall is less than a week away! To get to go home and talk about my favorite bands in this venue, where we used to take field trips, is an actual dream. Please send your musically inclined students/pals/relatives—it's freee rockhall.com/event/ams-in...

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AMS Lecture Series: Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Join the AMS Lecture Series with Dan Dipiero as he explores the 1980s UK indie scene, where gendered dynamics often overshadowed indie-pop contributions.

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Dan DiPiero @dandipiero.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Go if you can! Livestream if you can't! Listen to my conversation with the co-organizer either way! dandipiero.substack.com/p/emo-con-sp...

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8 | Emo (Con) Special with Varun Chandrasekhar

A Conference...But It’s Midwest(ern) Emo

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Heartbreaking! This scholar prepared a whole lecture on Jameson's Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism only to not even get to it in class

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Huge thanks to @12tone.nebula.tv for working with me on the video "The Surprising Rhythms of Emo" in support of EmoCon! This video maps the meaning of shifts between half-time, normal-time, and double-time in emo/pop-punk music as they relate to the general suburban discontent of the genres!

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12tone @12tone.nebula.tv · 20/03/2026

It was really fun working with Varun, and seriously, if you have any interest in emo and/or music theory, you should check out EmoCon: emocon2026.com

emocon2026.com

Emo Con 2026

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Emo Con Schedule is live today!!! With links to sign up for virtual presentation! www.emocon2026.com

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Emo Con 2026

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

IDK if they made this intentional, but having Jar Jar voting for the complete consolidation of power because he was given a responsibility he was never worthy of only to realize he made a grave mistake and then does the bare minimum to fix it is a perfect encapsulation of the modern democratic party

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

On one hand, it would probably help if I submitted about music people know and care about On the other hand, "Topanga Lawrence" by Charmer is an absolute gem of a tune www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG_W...

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Charmer - Topanga Lawrence (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by No Sleep Records

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

hey does someone who gets accepted to SMT wanna look at my abstract and tell me why I'm gonna get rejected from SMT again

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

In the spirit of this post, some great abstracts we got for emocon2026 (full schedule will be posted at emocon2026.com soon): - "What is the Midwest in Midwest Emo - The emo scene in the post ussr Czech Republic - "I'm not okay-fabe" - "The hospital as place in The Black Parade"

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Emo Con 2026

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

New issue of Jazz and Culture! Vol. 8, No. 2, features three new articles, and oral history of saxophonist Donny Whitehead, three poems by @kassy-lee.bsky.social, and two book reviews. cc: @vcmusictheory.bsky.social, @michaelnomalice.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jac/issu...

Cover of Jazz & Culture, Volume 8, Number 2, Fall-Winter 2025
Closeup image of a saxophone on a black background.

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Really excited to be teaching my course "Music and the Politics of Cool," which asks students to unpack the cultural implications required to name some as "cool" Here's the syllabus! cvarun7.wixsite.com/website/post...

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Music and the Politics of Cool

Course SummaryBe it the slight crease in Miles Davis's back, Chuck Berry's energetic duck walks, or the boisterous self-confidence of Missy Elliott's bombastic rhymes, each of these musicians uses the...

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Hopped on Dan's podcast to talk about emo, neoliberalism and it Mingus would like Midwestern emo (he would)!!!

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My "i passed a cognitive test for the third time" shirt is raising a lot of questions already... wait, what are we talking about again

Trump passes cognitive test for the third time

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

My first ccm gig, I got the call the night before and didn't get to practice. Not being familiar with the genre conventions when we got to the big repeated outro sing along section, I saw a big open space and began playing a ripping guitar solo The MD was not happy

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Broke: Jazz is a four-letter word Woke: emo is a four-letter word

Emo as an identity shifted from a four letter word to a badge of pride

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

With regards to Drowning Pool's "Let The Bodies Hit The Floor," do you think the majority of people: A) like the song ironically B) like the song authentically C) dislike the song ironically D) dislike the song authentically I think A, B, or D could be right but no idea which it is

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Quite the panoptic interpretation of "whose on third?"

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Publication Day!!! My article "Jazz and Commitment: Sartre, Jazz, and Charles Mingus" was just published in Jazz and Culture. This article uses Sartre's theories of commitment to explain how Mingus's improvisations stake their political commentary! Super excited to see this out in the world!!!

My article "Jazz and Commitment" which was published today!

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

the absolute irony of the position of this essay is that it a) believes in timeless gender roles that transcend historical basis and b) is written by a woman in a university, a thing that is strictly forbidden by her "women as servers" ideology By her own accord, I should not listen to her

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Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I am teaching a class for the first time since 2023 in the spring...I am heavily considering my AI policy being "just send me an email that says 'I was going to use AI to do this assignment; and I will give you a C+, no questions asked and we will save a couple water bottles.'"

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