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Kaarina Kilpiö
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Social historian of music, University lecturer at taideyliopisto.bsky.social.
Interested in social debate.
Bookworm. Mom of 2 (+2 rescue doggos).
Tending to a 1950s house and garden.

everyday life & functional music – music in propaganda – film music
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Today, at @taideyliopisto.bsky.social, Matias Häkkinen’s artistic doctoral defence on the philosophy, history, and theory of tuning.

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The programme booklet of the doctoral defence (in Finnish); in the background, the harpsichord, and the seating of the assessment board and the doctoral researcher. Matias Häkkinen delivering his lectio praecursorium. Matias Häkkinen playing Johann Jacob Froberger’s ”Meditation sur ma mort future" on the harpsichord.
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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You've just died. 6th picture in your gallery is what killed you.
A music stand on a colorful rag rug, with an opened notebook on top of an opened sheet music book. A pencil is placed on the notebook.
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Päivän inspiroiva tuttavuus: 65-vuotias käsityökauppa Möysän lanka ja sen ihanan omistautunut nykyinen kauppias (puolet myymäläänsä nuorempi).
Tutustukaa tekin, jos kulku vie Lahden Karjalankadun kautta!
Street view from Karjalankatu, Lahti, Finland. A yarn store titled Möysän lanka has its door open on a gray November day. View from inside the Möysän lanka store with shelves full of colorful yarns and ribbons. The owner stands behind the counter, smiling.
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Sweet news from the research output front: the Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology awarded a price to our book about Finland-Swedish musicking in the digital world titled 'Digitala stämmor: Finlandssvensk musikkultur i förändring'. (Open access förresten, kära kolleger!) hdl.handle.net/10138/593707
The cover of 'Digitala stämmor : Finlandssvensk musikkultur i förändring' Written by Johannes Brusila, Kaarina Kilpiö, Inka-Maria Nyman & Kim Ramstedt. Published by Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland, 2024.
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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esim.
Elon Musk tweeting about Homer “For maximum alpha…”
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Inna is perhaps worried for me since I ended up doing ’Love Is A Many Splendored Thing’.
A tricolor mid-sized dog standing on a light gray wooden floor minding her business. The same dog, ears up, looking at the camera.
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
The cover of the album Roadrunner (1974) by the Finnish band Hurriganes. The three male musicians are seated on the back seat of a 1950s car on a dark city street.
November 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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My otherwise sweet dog is destructive of old things that I like. This morning it was Dante, Aristotle, and (slightly younger) David Ruelle.
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A brown couch with chew toys and several books torn apart. Next to the couch, a clueless dog stands looking at the camera.
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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A decent catch from the annual alien hunt this year. 🍂🍁
Dahlia rootstock on concrete steps. On the lowest step are yellow gardening gloves and tools.
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Copydogs
Two dogs asleep on a yellow bedspread in identical positions.
November 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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#hitupäivät2025 ensimmäinen keynote-luento, Margaret Hunt: Truth, Post-truth and History
The first keynote speaker of the Finnish Conference of History Research 2025, Margaret Hunt: Truth, Post-truth and History. Hunt on the podium with a slide on the screen: Patriotic History and the problem of national honor - History as a school of values, teaching love of country and encouraging unity - Desire for a history that safeguards the nation’s honor. No ugly stories about the past. * insulting Turkishness: the Armenian genocide * The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission ** ”The most just and glorious country in all of human history” ** "(Historians) trample honest scholarship and historical truth (and) shame Americans by highlighting only the sins of their ancestors…” ** Use the primary sources, not the poisonous interpretations of historians
October 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Viimeinkin (Agr. wijmengi)! 😍
Yli kymmenen vuotta kaihoamani suomen etymologinen sanakirja saapui talouteen.
Suomen sanojen alkuperä -kirjasarjan kolme osaa päälletysten pöydällä. The three volumes of the Finnish etymological dictionary stacked on a tabletop.
October 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Post you from a different era.
(My deranged ‘pixie cut’ looking pretty much like a wig.)
An old passport photo of the poster.
October 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Ah, vieläkin sykähdyttää tämä Matti Apusen avautuminen haastattelussa pari vuotta sitten, kun tutustuminen yliopistomaailman ”paisutellun hallinnon” todellisuuteen oli hänellä meneillään.
Työelämäprofessorin lausunto työolosuhteista yliopistolla: ”Me työelämäprofessorit tullaan ihan eri maailmasta, mullakin on ollut sihteerit ja assistentit ja mä en ois pystynyt tekemään mun työtäni, jos mä oisin tehnyt sellaista mun aikaisemmissa hommissa. Mun mielestä meille pitäis osoittaa joku, että teitä auttaa tää [henkilö]”, toinen kertoi.
October 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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The exciting season for dog owners
Beautiful sunny glade filled with autumn leaves, with text “Autumn Dog Turds… You Know They’re Out There. You Just Don’t Know Where."
October 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Harpsichordist Marianna Henriksson presenting her lectio precursorium at @taideyliopisto.bsky.social
Marianna Henriksson (harpsichord) and Anna Mustonen (dance) performing Shiva Feshareki’s composition For Marianna (2021).
September 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Happy with my new gym shirt 😍
Mount Pleasant Library Friends black t-shirt with text “What’s more punk than the public library” https://mtpfriends.bigcartel.com/product/what-s-more-punk-adult-t-shirt
September 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Quote post with an album you rate 10/10
The cover of Gabriel Kahane’s 2014 album The Ambassador
September 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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“Apolitical is what people are who think their government can’t hurt them. It’s different here: we _know_ what our government can do.”
The cover of “Where the axe is buried” by Ray Nayler.
August 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Alba the dog was surprised by the sheer size of the book.
The biography of Erkki Melartin and a brown&white dog laying on a yellow bedspread.
August 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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QT this post with someone you wish was still alive.
Anna Politkovskaja at her desk with pen in hand.
August 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Alba & Inna from Finland added🙂
Two medium sized dogs, one blonde/white, one tricolor, asleep on a sofa.
August 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Alba says hi and wishes she could join you 🥰
A white & sand coloured dog sitting on a wooden bench, pawing at a hand held in front of her.
August 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Share an image/GIF you can hear.
A still image from the film “Tous le Matins du Monde”. Monsieur de Ste-Colombe (Jean-Pierre Marielle) plays the viol in his humble home, reminiscing life with his late spouse. In front of the player, a table covered with a green cloth, on which are placed a wine bottle and glass, a plate of cheese, a red book, and a white quill set in a metal dish.
July 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Vanha kunnon:
Meemikuva ”Kukonlaulun aikaan suoritettava vetovastuun vaihto äänimaiseman luonnissa” Kuvassa viestijuoksun vaihto, jossa ”naapuruston teinien viritetyt tossumopot” -juoksija luovuttaa kapulan ”naapurin Erkin ruohonleikkuri” -juoksijalle. Taustalla auringonnousu urheilukentän laidalla.
July 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM