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Andrew J. Eisenberg

@anthroposound.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Music @ NYU Abu Dhabi. Writes on music & sound in Kenya. #Ethnomusicology #Anthropology. Author 'Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast' www.weslpress.org/9780819501066/sounds-of-other-shores

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Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · Nov 24

Hello new followers! Pls allow me to tout my new book Sounds of Other Shores, published earlier this year. It explores the history of transoceanic appropriation as reflexive cultural critique in the popular music of Kenya’s Swahili coast.

Sounds of Other Shores – Wesleyan University Press

A study of transoceanic musical appropriation and Swahili ethnic subjectivity on the Kenyan coastSounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the hist...

www.weslpress.org

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Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 16h

So tired I could sleep a horse

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Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 1d

Trump take constitution

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure it's better or worse that it was the only comprehensible sentence he uttered

Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure there’s a very good reason why 75% of the work that I do every year as a professor must be done in the fall, but I haven’t figured it out yet.

Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 3d

Somehow the end of DEI has also meant the end of anyone needing any qualifications for anything. I'm sure the new CBS news division will help us understand how this happened.

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 3d

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.

The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.

She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

NPR @npr.org · 3d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 6d

beardo solidarity

Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 6d

According to initial reports, the “compact” would compel a university to crack down on acts of “belittling” conservative ideas and enforce a specific (pseudoscientific) definition of gender. So in other words, the end of academic freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap.

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Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 6d

The Jedi should never have filibustered the continuing resolution

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Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 7d

Everybody knows a government shutdown makes the president a dictator. That’s just civics 101.

Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 7d

I've never heard that, so I assume it hasn't entered the global Gen Z English vernacular that my students are exposed to. And my Gen Z-Gen Alpha cusper who spent last year in an NYC public school has never heard it either. So I'm gonna say it's regional.

Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 12d

So are all these new presidential powers going to apply to the next Dem in office or nah

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Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 16d

RFK jr and Trump need to go after cheese next, bc too many people are being killed by their bedsheets

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Of cheese and bedsheets – some notes on correlation

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19d

Other, more serious countries, have actual supreme/constitutional courts. We, alas, have a 9-member super-legislature whose Wizards in Robes issue rulings that are now no more grounded in the law, Constitution, or history/data/evidence than the burning of entrails or the reading of tea leaves.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19d

The Supreme Court is not a legitimate institution. When a court has corrupted itself, and flaunts its contempt for the law and the judicial system, it ceases to be a court. I don’t know exactly what to do about that, but I do think that as a country, we need to recognize that and act accordingly.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 19d

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact.
www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

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Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 20d

I’m just glad hypocrisy isn’t alive to see this

Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 21d

Another baby step toward the dissolution of the union

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21d

New York and several other Northeastern states are forging a regional public health coalition to issue vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts in a rebuke to the Trump administration’s shifts on health policy, according to two New York officials.

New York and Other States Form Health Bloc as Answer to Trump’s Policies

Northeastern governors, like their peers in the West, want to shore up public health and issue approval for vaccines.

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Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 22d

I wish there was a less cumbersome way to say anti-anti-fascism

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 22d

I’m not entirely sure how China benefits from my 13 year old getting hooked on Boomer rock, but their little singy dancey app sure is good at it.

Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 23d

I don’t want to alarm anyone but there’s a lunatic in charge of the FBI

Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 25d

Not sure if this is part of your point, but I think its important that the virtual space in which most political conversations happen now is one in which you can never reach out and touch the whiskers of your interlocutor

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Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 29d

WAPO is just the NYTimes doing a bad impression of the NY Post

Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · 29d

Among the sad and disturbing aspects of the video is the students' unyielding belief that the US president makes laws by fiat, and that a presidential order can make it "illegal" to teach certain content in a class.

Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · Sep 9

You must be a foreign country

Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · Sep 6

Are we also back to freedom fries? Just trying to keep up.