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Josh Friedberg

@joshfrmusic.bsky.social

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Author, TEDx speaker, music historian, staff writer at PopMatters 🏳️‍🌈 linktr.ee/joshfriedberg

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · Jan 7

My TEDx talk. I wouldn't change my autism if I could.

Redefining Creativity as an Autistic Person | Joshua Friedberg | TEDxEarlhamCollege

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 1d

I just submitted a personal essay on music and death to a publication about death and its cultural milieu. I hope it gets accepted

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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 1d

Being autistic and sending a text message and not knowing when you'll get a response just hits differently when you're autistic.

Why ?

It just does.

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Reblogged at @goodmenproject.bsky.social!!!
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To Chase and/or Avert Praise: A Neurodivergent Dilemma?

A conflicted relationship with compliments, possibly explained.

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 4d

New blog on neurodivergence and validation

To Chase and/or Avert Praise: A Neurodivergent Dilemma?

A conflicted relationship with compliments, possibly explained.

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like I should make this into a TikTok (if I knew how to use TikTok)

10 Should-Be-Classic Records about Grief

Some unconventional picks for your listening and grieving catharsis.

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 4d

Two years after the latter, my grandmother said at an LGBTQ educational scholarship event where I was honored, "And I'm so proud of my gay grandson!" I think about her every day.
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'I'm So Proud of My Gay Grandson!'

My amazing story of family, music, and pride.

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 4d

For #NationalComingOutDay: I have a number of memorable coming out stories: coming out to my freshman class at New Student Orientation at college (in an event where I was riddled with internalized homophobia) and coming out to my grandparents are two big ones.

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Beetlejuice Delores @beedelores.bsky.social · 5d

That pub from two months ago STILL hasn’t paid me. Any help would be appreciated. 💜

Related: I think I’m going to finish out this year and figure out what else I can do besides writing… 😭

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Support Bee Delores

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Chris Ingalls @ingalls1969.bsky.social · 5d

Probably preaching to the choir here, but I must reiterate my utter hatred towards bullshit AI art. Generating videos of garbage like Freddie Mercury fist bumping Ozzy Osbourne in heaven is the worst kind of cheap, exploitative bullshit that’s ever taxed the power grid. Shut it down already

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 5d

I just found someone's LiveJournal from 2006 while searching for a newspaper article. Please excuse me while I mourn my age by listening to Panic! At the Disco.

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Rainbow Rodeo Magazine @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social · 6d

Contributor @joshfrmusic.bsky.social dissects the myth of authenticity in country music -- and takes us through a literature review of scholars and journalists hard at work to dispel it.

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 6d

My new article is live @rainbowrodeo.bsky.social!!! Subscribe to read the whole piece!!!!

The Authenticity Myth of Country Music

Contributor Josh Friedberg dissects the myth of authenticity in country music -- and takes us through a literature review of scholars and journalists hard at work to dispel it.

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PopMatters @popmatters.com · 8d

Certain books make you dream; Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train wakes you up to the blunt fact that you are alive and living in an ever-rollin' mythology. #PMPick

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Greil Marcus' Mystery Train Keeps on Rollin' » PopMatters

Certain books make you dream; Greil Marcus' Mystery Train wakes you up to the blunt fact that you are alive and living in an ever-rollin' mythology.

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 10d

Listening to Gillian Welch

Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 12d

I got on the waitlist for a writing residency in the spring . . . I'm excited!

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Graham Gentz Loves To Playtest @thismaybegraham.bsky.social · 13d

Abolish ICE

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13d

Abolish ICE.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13d

Arkansas police pulled over an Indian GrubHub driver wh ois married to a U.S. citizen. They found a bottle of Opium-brand perfume, arrested him for narcotics possession, and turned him over to ICE, where he was held for 30 days.

He has now been stripped of his immigration status.

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 14d

My new book review is live @popmatters.com

Ella Jenkins' Biography Sings Her Song » PopMatters

Gayle F. Wald's Ella Jenkins' biography sings Jenkins’ commitment to social justice and her important multicultural and participatory approach to teaching children music.

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 14d

My blog has been reposted @goodmenproject.bsky.social!!! Check it out!!!

10 African American Studies Texts That Changed My Life

And challenged my thinking about race, especially.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15d

AAAAND we are officially shut down!

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 21d

"Stan Lee insulted me. But in bizarro world, that means he likes me!"

Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 21d

In Comic Book Guy voice

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 22d

anyway here’s @vivmccall.bsky.social with some extremely good and extremely fucking sobering reporting on the recent surge in random hate crimes directed at trans women in Seattle. Please be careful, everyone. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men

Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood. According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings sin...

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 22d

New blog!!

12 African American Studies Texts That Changed My Life

You won't know most of them, I'd wager.

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Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 23d

Reviewing a vinyl folk music reissue, working on my first film essay ever, writing a blog on some African American Studies readings that changed my life, reworking a book review, looking at other projects on top of my job . . . it's a lot, but I am enjoying it!

Josh Friedberg @joshfrmusic.bsky.social · 24d

Listening to "The Dutchman," Michael (P.) Smith, Chicago folk music great.
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The Dutchmen

YouTube video by Michael Smith - Topic

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