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Varun Chandrasekhar. PhD student in music theory at Washington University in Saint Louis, studying jazz, existentialism, and silly little emo songs. Suns fan. Alum of The Ohio State University (Go Bucks!). He/him/his
Oh no
How could anyone see this coming from Ted "Slapshot" Carter
His prose is, by far, the most offensive part of the whole schtick. The most egregious form of subbing overtly performative and purposefully indecipherably complex prose to express ideas that are not nearly as complex as their hubris implies
HELL YA!!!!!!
That's a gopher my guy
Oops not virtual presentation, but virtual participation! Was too excited lol
Emo Con Schedule is live today!!! With links to sign up for virtual presentation!
www.emocon2026.com
Hey it me!!
Gang Gang!
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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
Good call on this, can def hear the possible influence! Also love "the third-wave ghetto" lol
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
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Happy to return the favor too btw
(I think I have a very strong conference presentation record, especially for a grad student and often get high praise for my presentations. I just find it funny that I have never gotten accepted to preset for the main conference in my home discipline lol)
Me: I don't even care about SMT, I don't even really do music theory actually
Also me: Getting into SMT is my white whale, it is the only thing that will bring joy to me
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
As a former minneapolis resident, I can sign off on pizza luce
Thanks carl!
I get that, it's just hard for me to know when you post... if you even just dm me or shoot me an email or tag iaspm in a second tweet, I can make sure it gets boosted! Just wanted to ensure it gets as many eyes as possible!
Hey Carl, when you announce these can you tag @iaspm-us.bsky.social so I can re-tweet it there? Thanks!
Nancy Fraser's Cannibal Capitalism is a really good exploration of this idea (also see Seymour's The Rise of Disaster Nationalism)
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Great list! If people are interested, I am hosting the first academic conference dedicated to emo in Saint Louis on April 10th-11th. See Emocon2026.com or @emocon2026 on Insta for more information!
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"
Huge shout out to Saint louis public radio for doing a story on emocon!
We got 50+ submissions and should have some great talks!!!
Grab your skinny jeans and head to this St. Louis emo conference | STLPR share.google/Lp16InuoCPxO...
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...
Taylor's Music And Capitalism: A History of The Present has a chapter like this iirc. Robin James work is clearly inspired by Marx too
think about how many public academic buildings that are in constant use 9 months of the year are falling apart, but no infrastructure bill would ever consider giving funding towards upgrading. It's an easy way to center university's as part of a towns economy but would be alien to us politcs