Jessica A. Holmes
@holmesjessica.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen. Popular music, gender, and disability. www.jessicaholmes.phd
Fun to be interviewed for and quoted several times in this great piece on Celine Dion’s Vegas residencies by CBC journalist Natalie Harmsen!
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How Céline Dion became the queen of Las Vegas | CBC Music
The pop diva revitalized 21st-century concert residencies. This is how she did it.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Fun to be interviewed for and quoted several times in this great piece on Celine Dion’s Vegas residencies by CBC journalist Natalie Harmsen!
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Brilliant people, brilliant podcast! Highly recommended.
Episode 6 with @robinjames.bsky.social is out now for your holiday week! We cover the second edition of Resilience and Melancholy, what's happening at the top of the charts, why men left pop music for podcasts, and m o r e e e e
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6 | Resilient Pop and Alt (Right) Rock with Dr. Robin James
Something's going on with men!!
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November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Brilliant people, brilliant podcast! Highly recommended.
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There are over 200 currently registered members on this petition, 40% of signatories are tenured professors, almost 100 current or former donors to the AMS. This petition has really galvanized scholars to reactivate their commitment and vision for our Society.
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AMS Petition 2025
Petition to Restore Transparent Governance and Accountability in the American Musicological Society To add your signature to the petition, please fill out the following form: https://bit.ly/Sign_AMS_2...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
There are over 200 currently registered members on this petition, 40% of signatories are tenured professors, almost 100 current or former donors to the AMS. This petition has really galvanized scholars to reactivate their commitment and vision for our Society.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The work that Jessica does here developing an idea of music as 'multimodal, multisensory' is SO philosophically important as people in that field CONTINUE to treat 'sound' or 'listening' as like uniquely auditory and ear-and-voice-based phenomena
The book challenges the misconceptions associated with deafness and hearing in Western music through engaging with the musical endeavors of culturally deaf, oral deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing disabled musicians, while imparting a multimodal, multisensory conception of music and musicianship.
November 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The work that Jessica does here developing an idea of music as 'multimodal, multisensory' is SO philosophically important as people in that field CONTINUE to treat 'sound' or 'listening' as like uniquely auditory and ear-and-voice-based phenomena
Thrilled that my book *Music at the Margins of Sense* is officially in production and forthcoming in Fall 2026 with the University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social for their Music and Social Justice Series!
November 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Thrilled that my book *Music at the Margins of Sense* is officially in production and forthcoming in Fall 2026 with the University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social for their Music and Social Justice Series!
UC Press has listed my JAMS article “Billie Eilish and the Feminist Aesthetics of Depression” among the most-accessed UC Press journal articles in 2024-25 in their 2025 report:
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August 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
UC Press has listed my JAMS article “Billie Eilish and the Feminist Aesthetics of Depression” among the most-accessed UC Press journal articles in 2024-25 in their 2025 report:
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Thrilled to share that the University of Michigan Press Faculty Executive Committee has unanimously approved my book, *Music at the Margins of Sense* for publication! Hopefully it’ll hit the book stands in late 2026/early 2027! In the meantime, you can read all about it on my brand new website:
Jessica A. Holmes, PhD
www.jessicaholmes.phd
August 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Thrilled to share that the University of Michigan Press Faculty Executive Committee has unanimously approved my book, *Music at the Margins of Sense* for publication! Hopefully it’ll hit the book stands in late 2026/early 2027! In the meantime, you can read all about it on my brand new website:
Depression in Popular Music, an interdisciplinary conference w/a star-studded lineup of speakers from the US, Canada, SA, the UK, and Europe. June 26-27, Sorbonne University Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, organized by me in my capacity as 4EU+ Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne:
April 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Depression in Popular Music, an interdisciplinary conference w/a star-studded lineup of speakers from the US, Canada, SA, the UK, and Europe. June 26-27, Sorbonne University Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, organized by me in my capacity as 4EU+ Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne:
I had a blast presenting alongside @dandipiero.bsky.social followed by a great 3-way conversation with/led by @robinjames.bsky.social in the PMiB series last night. Here is the YouTube video. 🫶🏻
ICYMI, here's yesterday's PMBIP on bad feelings in pop. @dandipiero.bsky.social + @holmesjessica.bsky.social + @robinjames.bsky.social got into phenomenology, Billie, Lucy, sadgirl tok, women in rock, maj7, excess, covers, and Spotify's Lorem playlist. Check it out!
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DePiero, Holmes, and James on depression & pop, 4/15/25
YouTube video by Eric Weisbard
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April 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I had a blast presenting alongside @dandipiero.bsky.social followed by a great 3-way conversation with/led by @robinjames.bsky.social in the PMiB series last night. Here is the YouTube video. 🫶🏻
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Join @holmesjessica.bsky.social and @dandipiero.bsky.social and I TODAY at 5 Eastern for a convo about their forthcoming books and "bad feelings" in pop music studies research. Come for sad girls, big feelings, the musical vernacular of depression.
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Popular Music Books in Process Series
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April 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Join @holmesjessica.bsky.social and @dandipiero.bsky.social and I TODAY at 5 Eastern for a convo about their forthcoming books and "bad feelings" in pop music studies research. Come for sad girls, big feelings, the musical vernacular of depression.
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
Very excited/nervous for tomorrow with the brilliant @robinjames.bsky.social and @dandipiero.bsky.social!
Check out tomorrow’s Popular Music Books in Process. @dandipiero.bsky.social, @holmesjessica.bsky.social, and @robinjames.bsky.social are gonna talk about bad feelings in pop music. Join us at 5p ET on Zoom. I wanna ask them about goth. For more info:
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
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Popular Music Books in Process Series
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April 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Very excited/nervous for tomorrow with the brilliant @robinjames.bsky.social and @dandipiero.bsky.social!
I'm really looking forward to being part of this conversation with the inimitable @dandipiero.bsky.social and @robinjames.bsky.social! Join us via Zoom on Tuesday.
This Tues Apr 15 in the Popular Music Books series, 5 pm ET - @dandipiero.bsky.social & @holmesjessica.bsky.social talk with @robinjames.bsky.social about their books in progress on "big feelings" and depression in todays indie and pop music. Join us! iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
April 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I'm really looking forward to being part of this conversation with the inimitable @dandipiero.bsky.social and @robinjames.bsky.social! Join us via Zoom on Tuesday.
JACK HALBERSTAM delivered a brilliant lecture at the University of Copenhagen yesterday, an event hosted by the Dept. Of Arts & Cultural Studies “Art & Health” + “Art & Earth” research clusters and the Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Difference. Over 200 people attended! @ucph.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
JACK HALBERSTAM delivered a brilliant lecture at the University of Copenhagen yesterday, an event hosted by the Dept. Of Arts & Cultural Studies “Art & Health” + “Art & Earth” research clusters and the Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Difference. Over 200 people attended! @ucph.bsky.social
Excited to share that I have a new chapter out in *The Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music* entitled “Beats, Tactility, and the Politics of Deaf Representation in EDM": doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
March 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Excited to share that I have a new chapter out in *The Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music* entitled “Beats, Tactility, and the Politics of Deaf Representation in EDM": doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
On Tues Mar 4, *Jack Halberstam* will deliver a public lecture at the University of Copenhagen at 15:15 in auditorium 23.0.50. The lecture is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception in the adjoining atrium: artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/art...
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@ucph.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
On Tues Mar 4, *Jack Halberstam* will deliver a public lecture at the University of Copenhagen at 15:15 in auditorium 23.0.50. The lecture is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception in the adjoining atrium: artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/art...
@ucph.bsky.social
@ucph.bsky.social
On Tues Mar 4th, we'll have the honour of hosting *JACK HALBERSTAM* in the UCPH Dept. of Arts & Cultural Studies for a public lecture entitled "Unworlding: Anarchitecture After Everything" from 15:15-17:00 in auditorium 23.0.50: artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/art...
@ucph.bsky.social
@ucph.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
On Tues Mar 4th, we'll have the honour of hosting *JACK HALBERSTAM* in the UCPH Dept. of Arts & Cultural Studies for a public lecture entitled "Unworlding: Anarchitecture After Everything" from 15:15-17:00 in auditorium 23.0.50: artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/art...
@ucph.bsky.social
@ucph.bsky.social
Honoured to be undertaking a Visiting Professorship at the @sorbonne-universite.fr Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology & Public Health (iPLesp) later this spring fully funded by the 4EU+ University Alliance. Read about my research project and planned activities here: 4euplus.eu/4EU-1039.html
January 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Honoured to be undertaking a Visiting Professorship at the @sorbonne-universite.fr Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology & Public Health (iPLesp) later this spring fully funded by the 4EU+ University Alliance. Read about my research project and planned activities here: 4euplus.eu/4EU-1039.html
Does your research address the links between popular music + mental health in some way? If yes, submit a proposal to the "Depression in Popular Music" interdisciplinary conference at @sorbonne-universite.fr iPLesp from Jun 26-27! Proposals due Feb 15. See CfP here:
depressioninpopconference2025.com
depressioninpopconference2025.com
January 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Does your research address the links between popular music + mental health in some way? If yes, submit a proposal to the "Depression in Popular Music" interdisciplinary conference at @sorbonne-universite.fr iPLesp from Jun 26-27! Proposals due Feb 15. See CfP here:
depressioninpopconference2025.com
depressioninpopconference2025.com
CFP: "Depression in Popular Music," an interdisciplinary conference from Jun 26-27 2025 at @sorbonne-universite.fr Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, co-organized by myself and iPLesp. Proposals due Feb 15. See CfP for details:
depressioninpopconference2025.com
depressioninpopconference2025.com
December 30, 2024 at 9:04 AM
CFP: "Depression in Popular Music," an interdisciplinary conference from Jun 26-27 2025 at @sorbonne-universite.fr Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, co-organized by myself and iPLesp. Proposals due Feb 15. See CfP for details:
depressioninpopconference2025.com
depressioninpopconference2025.com
I'm excited to share a Call for Papers an interdisciplinary conference on "Depression in Popular Music" from June 26-27, 2025 at the Sorbonne University Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology & Public Health (iPLesp) that I'm co-organizing w/iPLesp. Spread the word: depressioninpopconference2025.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:30 PM
I'm excited to share a Call for Papers an interdisciplinary conference on "Depression in Popular Music" from June 26-27, 2025 at the Sorbonne University Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology & Public Health (iPLesp) that I'm co-organizing w/iPLesp. Spread the word: depressioninpopconference2025.com