@jakedownsmusic.bsky.social
BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker • Departmental Lecturer in Music, University of Oxford x Lady Margaret Hall • Chair of Faculty, Faculty of Music • he/him
What happens to commercial music when economies collapse?
Join the conversation in Dublin by submitting a paper to the Themed Session "Recession Pop" organised by @jakedownsmusic.bsky.social
#MPSG26 at @dublincityuni.bsky.social
9–10 July 2026
musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/2025/09/25/c...
*New article!*
Max Blansjaar and I have written an essay about Taylor Swift for the Journal of Popular Music Studies.
It's open access for the next 30 days via this link: online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
A beautiful evening with my faves. @eeleach.bsky.social
10.07.2025 20:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The #oxopendays are taking place on Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 July. Hear from Dr Jacob Downs about the benefits of attending an Oxford Open Day, as well as what will be taking place here at the Faculty of Music. We look forward to seeing you!
#oxopendays2025 #oxfordmusic #oxfordopenday @ox.ac.uk
*New article!*
Max Blansjaar and I have written an essay about Taylor Swift for the Journal of Popular Music Studies.
It's open access for the next 30 days via this link: online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
Depression in Popular Music, an interdisciplinary conference w/a star-studded lineup of speakers from the US, Canada, SA, the UK, and Europe. June 26-27, Sorbonne University Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, organized by me in my capacity as 4EU+ Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne:
28.04.2025 21:59 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Hans Keller's 'Group functioning of a string quartet' is the topic for the Graduate Research Colloquium on Thursday 8 May. Professors Eric Clarke, Laura Tunbridge, @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social, and Dr @jakedownsmusic.bsky.social will each give brief presentations.
08.04.2025 11:07 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
You can also find out about media appearances by Faculty members, including tonight's episode of BBC Radio 3's The Essay, which has been written and recorded by
@jakedownsmusic.bsky.social and discusses the intimacy of radio.
One of my very talented students at Oxford—Christopher Churcher—has launched a fundraiser to support his debut album with Somerville College Choir: supportsomerville.com/campaigns/su.... He is very talented; I am very proud.
Any donation, however small, would be fab.
@oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
Obsessed with the bird!
11.01.2025 13:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Forgot to share this from my birthday lunch: my favourite misspelling for a while. Just lovely.
05.01.2025 15:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I just had a deep-tissue massage. I'd not had one before. I feel like… a cloud? Incredible how much tension I'd been holding (!).
03.12.2024 19:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you for coming x
26.11.2024 19:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The inimitable @jakedownsmusic.bsky.social giving a talk on Beyoncé at @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social.
26.11.2024 17:23 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 022/24—not disappointed! Ha!!
23.11.2024 01:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Still a little crunchy here!
19.11.2024 09:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Naomi Waltham-Smith sitting as part of a panel of four speakers discussing ideas from her new book
Great to see @auralflaneur.bsky.social in conversation about her new Free Listening earlier in the week
💙🖤🤍
If interested (I was!): www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
First book is go!
10.10.2024 16:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A screenshot showing voice-notes in iMessage.
Do you send VOICE-NOTES? Or do your friends use them when communicating via WhatsApp, Instagram, iMessage, etc.?
Sign up to take part in this new interview study, hosted by the University of Oxford, that is being conducted entirely via voice-notes...
tinyurl.com/voicenotestudy
