Professor of Music (University of Bristol)/jazz trumpet player/food lover Pronouns: he/him

Bristol,UK
Joined June 2009
Calling all hip hop folks who might want to consider a book or media or event review for the journal
Open CFP for book 📕 and media/event 📽️ 🎙️ reviews for GHHS. Head over to intellectbooks.com/global-hi… and click submissions. Open call for 2.1 and we'll also accept reviews for upcoming special issues: Hip Hop and the Internet; The Fifth Element; Breaking in the Olympics!
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53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists that will shape what comes next. I sat down with @Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Funding opportunity: Fellowships for Early Career Researchers 2027, Merton College, University of Oxford. Applications due October 9, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/f… via @mjcbac
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The Weston Library and Schwarzman Centre is seeking applications for the role of Alfred Brendel Curator of Music & Subject Librarian for Music. The postholder leads the Bodleian Libraries’ Music collections and services. jobs.ac.uk/job/DST526/alfred…
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If you are a UK based Black academic/scholar and you are looking for a space to process, please let me know and I will DM you something.
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Psaki: Why did you invoke Natalie Harp? Ossoff: We’re in wartime. The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives. Our naval logistics are frayed. The global energy system is in crisis. And he retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who are his security blanket to make him feel good about himself, to reassure him that he’s doing a great job, to help him while he designs his new ballroom. And he adorns the Oval Office in gold and picks the interior decorations on this new luxury flying palace he received from a foreign prince. When every single minute of every single day, what the president of the United States should be doing is bearing his most solemn burden of care for the sailors and Marines and aviators and all service members deployed on his orders on the basis of his lies to this disaster in the Middle East
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A lot of people maybe unaware but @CountBinface raises money for Shelter through his merchandise sales on his intergalatic website. Nigel Farage helps himself.
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Please sign open letter by July 10: Withdraw All Disciplinary Charges Against Prof. Willoughby-Herard (UC Irvine) us.list-manage.com/151pbCDv6…
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Congratulations to Prof Emma Hornby (Music) who has received a £2.2m @ERC_Research Advanced Grant for her Anonymous Agency project! 🥳 The project will identify unnamed individuals who shaped early-medieval Iberian Christian culture Read more 👇
The results of the competition for the Advanced Grants 2025 are here! Out of 3,329 applicants, 319 leading researchers have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. Congratulations to all! 🎉 Curious to know more ? 👉 link.europa.eu/r834wV #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch
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Congratulations to Prof @jwilli7 (Music) who is part of a team awarded a £1m AHRC grant for a project on Community Jazz Big Bands in England 🥳 Read more about the project which considers non-professional jazz big bands & ideas of community 👉 brnw.ch/21x3gTZ @CTackley
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Academics have to strike for 2 months and they will not be paid, my contribution is to boost this as often as I can.
If you are in a position to give to the hardship fund for academics at Nottingham who are striking, please do.
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Kings fans are social experiment on how how you can keep people being basketball fans no matter how many times you punch them in the face
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Instead of worrying that humanities degrees don’t prepare students for jobs in today’s world [product managers finance consultants startups], we should worry that we’ve created a world with such little value for literature, art, philosophy—anything that expresses the human soul
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Britain is rejoining Erasmus+. From 2027, thousands of students, apprentices and young people will be able to study and work across Europe, gaining international experience and new skills. Run by the @BritishCouncil, the programme will unlock a range of opportunities for people from different backgrounds across the UK.
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Looking forward to AfOx insaka Friday 6th Feb 5.30pm at @KelloggOx Talks on 1) using AI to predict soil erosion risk in Tanzania 2) how women's knowledge of plants in South Africa can offer us innovative approaches to address climate change Register here: shorturl.at/jKkKq
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Some updated UKRM in numbers. Top 5 places represented by artists on the map: London (generic) (119) Manchester (47) Bristol (40) Brixton (39) Brighton (36) Glasgow (35) Honourable mentions: Hackney (34), Edinburgh (32), Nottingham (29)
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Just a reminder that if you’re struggling over the festive period, there are places you can contact: Samaritans: 116 123 Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM): 0800 58 58 58 Shout (text): 85258 You’re not on your own 💙
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Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6z…
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Really sad news about Nottingham's music department, and a short-sighted decision from the University. A petition has been started by the students, please sign to have your voice heard. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly9… change.org/p/stop-the-suspen…
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