Paul David Flood

Thanks! Darren is an amazing advisor, and my whole committee has been really supportive throughout the process.

Cover page of my dissertation. "United By Music": Europeanism, Migration, and Belonging through the Eurovision Song Contest, 1990-2024 by Paul David Flood Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Supervised by Professor Darren Mueller Department of Musicology Eastman School of Music University of Rochester Rochester, New York 2026

Just submitted the fair copy of my dissertation!

“‘United By Music’: Europeanism, Migration, and Belonging through the Eurovision Song Contest, 1990–2024.”

🇳🇱 TV general director: ‘Culture unites, but not at any price.’

🇪🇸, 🇮🇪, 🇸🇮 also out of #Eurovision 2026, as they said before last delegations’ meeting (🇸🇮 taking that stand first).

🇧🇪, 🇮🇸 to decide in coming days.

An inside look at the campus protests; plus, Israel at Eurovision : It's Been a Minute Pro-Palestinian protests have been popping up at universities around the world, and in the last few days things have escalated at a number of those campuses. Columbia University called on police to sh...

If you're wondering how we got here, check out my interview with NPR ahead of Eurovision 2024: www.npr.org/2024/05/03/1...

How Europe's migrant/mobile communities have negotiated their relationships with Europeanism and Europeanness through musical performance and collective musicking in Eurovision, esp. btwn. 1990–2024. I recently published this article! online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...

My 1990–2024 scope is doing so much great work for me rn

Submitting my Ph.D. dissertation on #Eurovision to my committee tomorrow morning. Surely nothing major will happen between now and then...right?

Today is International Day of People with Disability so again I beg that you use Alt Text for all your photos, videos, and GIFs.

Not only does it make social media more accessible for folks who use screen readers, it also provides added context to your posts.

❤️

My Spotify Wrapped. Top Artists: PinkPantheress, CMAT, Sahati, Addison Rae, and Tate McRae. Top songs: Për Kon (by Sahati), Revolving Door (by Tate McRae), Again Again (by Sahati), Zjerm (by Shkodra Elektronike), and Tavo akys (by Katarsis).

Huge news for Albanian, Canadian, and Albanian-Canadian pop girlies in my top songs of 2025.

YouTube video by illusionrecords1 Saina Hello Yakutsk

My partner and I just watched Pan-Arcticvision (Eurovision for the circumpolar Arctic) and 1. wow I can't wait to teach this and 2. The victorious Sakha Republic's representative Saina's 1998 hit "Hello, Yakutsk" is about to go platinum in our apartment I fear www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rj7...

France 1991: Amina - Le dernier qui a parlé Georgia 2007: Sopho - Visionary Dream Türkiye 1997: Sebnem Paker & Grup Ethnic - Dinle Greece 2001: Antique - Die for You Iceland 1997: Paul Oscar - Minn hinsti dans Greece 2024: Marina Satti - ZARI Iceland 2019: Hatari - Hatrið mun sigra Sweden 2022: Cornelia Jakobs - Hold Me Closer Germany 2011: Lena - Taken by a Stranger Denmark 2017: Anja Nissen - Where I Am

Get into it #ESC250

Subbed for Honey Meconi’s “Exploring Classical Music” class at the UofR this morning, teaching Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Stellar engagement from the students! Very grateful for so many opportunities to keep my teaching chops up while I’m on fellowship.

Only for my (unofficial) undergrad thesis, but I may have to revisit this I fear

YouTube video by Royal Ballet and Opera Anna Nicole - 'PARTAY!' (The Royal Opera)

I mean, can you blame me?

youtu.be/fPxEDoQzYE8?...

I got a little bit too into the Anna Nicole Smith opera in undergrad

A selfie of Paul in an outdoor shopping center.

Selfie of a lil guy who
1. just got a haircut; and
2. finished writing his dissertation!!!!

15 days until I submit the fair copy and 123 days until my defense. (I know, my institution's conferral deadlines are wonky).

In the meantime, catch me in revision hell.

YouTube video by ESC Europe Live Super Rob, Erika Norwich - My AI - LIVE (Melodi Grand Prix 2024, Grand Final)

anyway youtu.be/LRTx5dZskO0?...

🌍 EBU appoints AKQA to modernise Eurovision’s fan experience The EBU has chosen AKQA as the new digital agency for the Eurovision Song Contest, kicking off a big refresh of the contest’s online and fan experience. Eurovision’s fan experience enters a new cha…

EBU’s “modernising” the fan experience is their attempt to control the fan experience rather than let the fans curate it themselves (as they’ve done for years). More control from above = centralized regulation of which bodies and ideologies are welcome and which are deemed “too political” for ESC.

Hillary Duff’s new single came out ten days ago and it only has 4 million streams on Spotify — gays what are you DOING, lock in

Had lots of fun reprising this lecture for Peter and his students at UC this afternoon! These students (no music majors!) were especially keen to discuss the political possibilities and shortcomings of generic hybridity in/and global popular music markets.

Paul David Flood. Paper: "White and Black Blues: The 1990 Eurovision Song Contest and the Prospect of European (Racial) Integration" in the session Race, Nation, and Identity at AMS 2025. Friday, November 7 at 4pm, Lake Superior A, Hyatt Minneapolis.

Happy AMS Week! I'll be presenting some dissertation(/future book project?) material on the Race, Nation, and Identity panel on Friday at 4pm. My talk will be of particular interest to folks thinking between popular music studies, global music history, and Afro-diasporic studies.

This *doesn’t* necessarily mean the song contest - could mean the EBU’s wider Eurovision Network of programming and live link-ups.

Still interesting in a media space where policy debates have usually just been about protecting the future of ‘Canadian content’ when US media are so popular.

Gaymer posting hours: I finished Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter last night and Wowowowow it was great. Need the 2nd Chapter immediately. Can’t believe I’m just supposed to drop it and start playing the new Pokemon like my whole world wasn’t just rocked by a new (to me) JRPG (which happens often tbf)

Paul David Flood. Paper: "White and Black Blues: The 1990 Eurovision Song Contest and the Prospect of European (Racial) Integration" in the session Race, Nation, and Identity at AMS 2025. Friday, November 7 at 4pm, Lake Superior A, Hyatt Minneapolis.

Happy AMS Week! I'll be presenting some dissertation(/future book project?) material on the Race, Nation, and Identity panel on Friday at 4pm. My talk will be of particular interest to folks thinking between popular music studies, global music history, and Afro-diasporic studies.

A selfie of Paul sitting at his library study carrel.

This is my third time on campus this semester and I think that’s beautiful

All we need is an edit of the Björk bird singing Apartment For Sale

This is Berghain in Lydia Tár’s Berlin fr

Delighted to share that my paper at last year's virtual SEM “Crying at the EuroClub: Rainbow Europe, Queer Diasporas, and the Politics of Escapism at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest” was named the Honorable Mention for SEM's Gender and Sexuality Studies Section's Conference Presentation Prize!

That’s my advisor!!

Eastman Musicology at the Society for Ethnomusicology 2025. Paul David Flood, Ph.D. Candidate. Paper: Music, Our Empire: Skopje 2014 and the Politicization of Roma. Session: Historical Soundscapes II. Friday, October 24 at 8:30am. M303, Marriott Marquis. Atlanta, GA.

Remember when North Macedonia tried to send the late great Romani singer Esma Redžepova to Eurovision with a song that glorified the ruling nationalist party’s controversial urban development project?

If not (or even if you do for some reason), come hear my paper at SEM on Friday morning!