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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
the absolute irony of the position of this essay is that it a) believes in timeless gender roles that transcend historical basis and b) is written by a woman in a university, a thing that is strictly forbidden by her "women as servers" ideology

By her own accord, I should not listen to her
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I am teaching a class for the first time since 2023 in the spring...I am heavily considering my AI policy being "just send me an email that says 'I was going to use AI to do this assignment; and I will give you a C+, no questions asked and we will save a couple water bottles.'"
"The right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans. Power recognised that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate.
Dont surrender to AI your ability to read write+ think when others once risked their lives and died for it."

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating
"I am no stranger to students trying to cut corners by copying and pasting from Wikipedia, but the introduction of generative AI has enabled them to cheat in startling new ways."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Skin as part of brain" sung to the tune of "insane in the brain"

"skin as part of brain?"

This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Update: WINONA FIGHTER is a good band and "MY APOLOGIES TO THE CHEF" is a great album

"You're all just masturbating to your Tiktok page/Don't mind me I just woke up in my shit-talk phase" is the exact lyrical gold that I would expect from a band called WINONA FIGHTER
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Fine, I'll be the president of ams
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One week under COMMUNIST Zohran Mamdani and the once great American Musicological Society does this. SAD!
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Can someone dm me the ams stuff?!?!?!
November 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Enjoy limited-time free access to the current issues of UC Press music journals during #AMS2025, including JAMS, JM, @iaspm-us.bsky.social's JPMS, @sssmg.bsky.social's JSMG, MP, NCM, and RES, www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/f...
Free Content from UC Press Journals during the 2025 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting
Enjoy limited-time free access to current issues of UC Press's music journals during the joint American Musicological Society-Society for Music Theory Annual Conference.
www.ucpress.edu
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Hey, I feel like they're not publicizing this much, but SMT is doing free livestreams of selected sessions. Info is gathered here: minneapolis2025.ams-smt.org/smt-hybrid-s... #amsmt25
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Thanks Tyler for letting me know that it's fine if I check in at 3, I just wont get to check in
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Come to my AMS talk on Sartre, Baraka, Adorno and Mingus
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
November 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Throughout Spongebob, Plankton's main goal is to steal the Krabby Patty Formula, believing that it would vault the Chum Bucket to success. However, in Adorno's formulation of capitalism, products are always homogenous, the differences superficial, and thus Plankton's goals are silly. In this essay,
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Im not sure if I like the song "YOU LOOK LIKE A DRUNK PHOEBE BRIDGERS" by the band Winona Fighter, but I do like the fact that there is a song called "YOU LOOK LIKE A DRUNK PHOEBE BRIDGERS" by a band called Winona Fighter

youtu.be/SF7WB9MCC4w?...
'YOU LOOK LIKE A DRUNK PHOEBE BRIDGERS' (official video)
YouTube video by WINONA FIGHTER
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It is bluntly insulting to be getting something like this as a scholar
October 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Im too lazy to do this, but can someone photocopy foucault's head with a loaf of bread and then ex out the title to be "the focaccia reader"
October 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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So excited to share my most recent article "'If I Die, I Wanna Die in the Suburbs': Pop-Punk and the Crisis of Neoliberalism" has been published in Musicology Now!

musicologynow.org/if-i-die-i-w...
If I Die, I Wanna Die in the Suburbs: Pop-Punk and the Crisis of Neoliberalism – Musicology Now
An online platform for sounds, words, and ideas from the American Musicological Society
musicologynow.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
So excited to share my most recent article "'If I Die, I Wanna Die in the Suburbs': Pop-Punk and the Crisis of Neoliberalism" has been published in Musicology Now!

musicologynow.org/if-i-die-i-w...
If I Die, I Wanna Die in the Suburbs: Pop-Punk and the Crisis of Neoliberalism – Musicology Now
An online platform for sounds, words, and ideas from the American Musicological Society
musicologynow.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Super excited to announce that I will be hosting "A Conference...But It's Midwestern Emo" in April 2026, what I believe to be the first conference dedicated to emo studies!!! Poster by Jacob Cupps!!!
October 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Super excited to announce that I will be hosting "A Conference...But It's Midwestern Emo" in April 2026, what I believe to be the first conference dedicated to emo studies!!! Poster by Jacob Cupps!!!
October 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
James bond and the giant peach
September 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It's my birthday today... I only have one wish
August 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This is a guitar arrangement of the main riff from a famous pop song that we are rearranging... can people tell what song it is just from the riff?

1. Not content farming, genuinely curious how surprised people would be if they heard it after this intro

2. Please ignore sloppiness
August 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
R/thewire is hillarious because half of the posts are"wow, this is a breath taking display of the interconnected failures of institutions with little to no concern about the lasting impacts of their cruelty" and the other half are "Omar go pew pew"
Ok but this is literally the plot and themes of Holes. It’s not a secret. It’s literally what he wrote the book about.
August 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
SAM ALTMAN: "I GOT YOUR NOSE"
OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN CONCEDES GPT-5 WAS A MISFIRE, BETS ON GPT-6
August 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM