Dr Thomas Graves
@thomasgraves.bsky.social
Music researcher focussed on South Asia, musical emotion/affect, moral emotion, music & Islam. Open Research Library Assistant at LSE. AFHEA, he/him. PhD thesis: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15586/
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Do different musics create different emotions?
Now published: the first quantitative article on the South Asian Sufi music qawwali to be published in a major music psychology journal!
Read the article open access here: lnkd.in/g7Dxpw3Z
Data are available here: lnkd.in/gQK2RCJp
#musicandemotion
Now published: the first quantitative article on the South Asian Sufi music qawwali to be published in a major music psychology journal!
Read the article open access here: lnkd.in/g7Dxpw3Z
Data are available here: lnkd.in/gQK2RCJp
#musicandemotion
I’m excited to see Laufey in concert next month, and couldn’t agree more with her Grammy speech. We must value our music and arts education system. It can’t take any more cuts.
youtu.be/ZfJjDz3RQnY?...
To read my full perspective, see my LSE HE blog post from last year: lnkd.in/ekrFZz36
#Grammys
youtu.be/ZfJjDz3RQnY?...
To read my full perspective, see my LSE HE blog post from last year: lnkd.in/ekrFZz36
#Grammys
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February 4, 2026 at 8:35 AM
I’m excited to see Laufey in concert next month, and couldn’t agree more with her Grammy speech. We must value our music and arts education system. It can’t take any more cuts.
youtu.be/ZfJjDz3RQnY?...
To read my full perspective, see my LSE HE blog post from last year: lnkd.in/ekrFZz36
#Grammys
youtu.be/ZfJjDz3RQnY?...
To read my full perspective, see my LSE HE blog post from last year: lnkd.in/ekrFZz36
#Grammys
This year’s British Forum for Ethnomusicology (@bfeadmin.bsky.social) conference programme dropped today, and I’m delighted to be sharing a session with my long-time friend, singing teacher, and colleague Budhaditya Bhattacharyya (@ragameister.bsky.social) #ethnomusicology #conference #music
January 21, 2026 at 5:32 PM
This year’s British Forum for Ethnomusicology (@bfeadmin.bsky.social) conference programme dropped today, and I’m delighted to be sharing a session with my long-time friend, singing teacher, and colleague Budhaditya Bhattacharyya (@ragameister.bsky.social) #ethnomusicology #conference #music
What makes qawwali such a powerful musical tradition?
My new blog post for LSE South Asia blog explores what kinds of emotions people feel when they listen to qawwali at Sufi shrines in India: blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...
#music #research #blog #spirituality #emotion #qawwali #southasia
My new blog post for LSE South Asia blog explores what kinds of emotions people feel when they listen to qawwali at Sufi shrines in India: blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...
#music #research #blog #spirituality #emotion #qawwali #southasia
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December 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What makes qawwali such a powerful musical tradition?
My new blog post for LSE South Asia blog explores what kinds of emotions people feel when they listen to qawwali at Sufi shrines in India: blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...
#music #research #blog #spirituality #emotion #qawwali #southasia
My new blog post for LSE South Asia blog explores what kinds of emotions people feel when they listen to qawwali at Sufi shrines in India: blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...
#music #research #blog #spirituality #emotion #qawwali #southasia
What role does culture play in how we classify emotions we feel with music listening?
Get the view from one musical tradition (qawwali) in our new article doi.org/10.1177/1029...
#culture #music #emotion #research #musicpsychology #crosscultural #Indianmusic
Get the view from one musical tradition (qawwali) in our new article doi.org/10.1177/1029...
#culture #music #emotion #research #musicpsychology #crosscultural #Indianmusic
A genre-specific structure of subjective feeling in music listening: What do qawwālī listeners feel? - Thomas A Graves, Tuomas Eerola, Martin Clayton, Syed Murshid Nizami, Muhammad Usama Rafiq, 2025
Most studies of subjective feeling categories in musical emotion use dimensional or categorical models to describe the different kinds of emotions induced by mu...
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December 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
What role does culture play in how we classify emotions we feel with music listening?
Get the view from one musical tradition (qawwali) in our new article doi.org/10.1177/1029...
#culture #music #emotion #research #musicpsychology #crosscultural #Indianmusic
Get the view from one musical tradition (qawwali) in our new article doi.org/10.1177/1029...
#culture #music #emotion #research #musicpsychology #crosscultural #Indianmusic
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What emotions does music evoke beyond Western genres? A data-driven study of qawwālī (South Asian Sufi music) shows that listeners report ethical/virtuous feelings, spiritual love, and trance. Culture & the construction of emotions matter. doi.org/10.1177/1029... #musicscience #musicpsych #emotion
A genre-specific structure of subjective feeling in music listening: What do qawwālī listeners feel? - Thomas A Graves, Tuomas Eerola, Martin Clayton, Syed Murshid Nizami, Muhammad Usama Rafiq, 2025
Most studies of subjective feeling categories in musical emotion use dimensional or categorical models to describe the different kinds of emotions induced by mu...
doi.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
What emotions does music evoke beyond Western genres? A data-driven study of qawwālī (South Asian Sufi music) shows that listeners report ethical/virtuous feelings, spiritual love, and trance. Culture & the construction of emotions matter. doi.org/10.1177/1029... #musicscience #musicpsych #emotion
Do different musics create different emotions?
Now published: the first quantitative article on the South Asian Sufi music qawwali to be published in a major music psychology journal!
Read the article open access here: lnkd.in/g7Dxpw3Z
Data are available here: lnkd.in/gQK2RCJp
#musicandemotion
Now published: the first quantitative article on the South Asian Sufi music qawwali to be published in a major music psychology journal!
Read the article open access here: lnkd.in/g7Dxpw3Z
Data are available here: lnkd.in/gQK2RCJp
#musicandemotion
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December 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Do different musics create different emotions?
Now published: the first quantitative article on the South Asian Sufi music qawwali to be published in a major music psychology journal!
Read the article open access here: lnkd.in/g7Dxpw3Z
Data are available here: lnkd.in/gQK2RCJp
#musicandemotion
Now published: the first quantitative article on the South Asian Sufi music qawwali to be published in a major music psychology journal!
Read the article open access here: lnkd.in/g7Dxpw3Z
Data are available here: lnkd.in/gQK2RCJp
#musicandemotion
Two new publications in one week! If you’re interested in the arts and the current UK universities crisis check out my blog post: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
If you are interested in what open research means for non-positivist researchers, read our preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
If you are interested in what open research means for non-positivist researchers, read our preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Two new publications in one week! If you’re interested in the arts and the current UK universities crisis check out my blog post: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
If you are interested in what open research means for non-positivist researchers, read our preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
If you are interested in what open research means for non-positivist researchers, read our preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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With the news that Nottingham is just the latest uni to close music courses, @thomasgraves.bsky.social explores why music degrees seem to be such an easy target for the axe - and why that's a tragedy
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December 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
With the news that Nottingham is just the latest uni to close music courses, @thomasgraves.bsky.social explores why music degrees seem to be such an easy target for the axe - and why that's a tragedy
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
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Excited to share my latest paper with Martin Clayton and @tuomaseerola.bsky.social on cross-cultural differences in rhythm pattern perception, focusing on Hindustani (North Indian) musical rhythms.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Effect of Rhythm Cycle Length, Cultural Familiarity, and Musicianship on Learning and Recall of North Indian Rhythmic Patterns
The study explores the effect of the length of rhythmic cycles, familiarity, musicianship, and rhythmic structure on the perception of long rhythmic cycles of North Indian Classical Music (NICM). W...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Excited to share my latest paper with Martin Clayton and @tuomaseerola.bsky.social on cross-cultural differences in rhythm pattern perception, focusing on Hindustani (North Indian) musical rhythms.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#musicpsych
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#musicpsych
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
Want to be part of a world first? My wonderful and very talented friend Dr Matthew Warren is composing the world’s first Manx language opera, and needs your help to get it done! gogetfunding.com/caillagh-the... #worldfirst #endangeredlanguages #opera
Caillagh – The First Manx Language Opera
Help bring the word’s first Manx language opera to life! – Cur bioys da’n chied opera sy theihll ayns Gaelg! My name is Matthew. I’m a composer and writer living on the Isle of Man and I’d like to tel...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Want to be part of a world first? My wonderful and very talented friend Dr Matthew Warren is composing the world’s first Manx language opera, and needs your help to get it done! gogetfunding.com/caillagh-the... #worldfirst #endangeredlanguages #opera
The University of Nottingham is the latest UK HEI to propose suspending the music department. Another in a long line of attacks on university music. Don’t let them get away with it! Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/stop-the-s... #university #UKHE #music
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Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The University of Nottingham is the latest UK HEI to propose suspending the music department. Another in a long line of attacks on university music. Don’t let them get away with it! Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/stop-the-s... #university #UKHE #music
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Delighted to share our latest research on consonance. We asked participants from India and UK to rate how “tense” different harmonic intervals sound. We found that musicians across both cultures agreed almost perfectly on which intervals feel tense or relaxed, however, ....
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Delighted to share our latest research on consonance. We asked participants from India and UK to rate how “tense” different harmonic intervals sound. We found that musicians across both cultures agreed almost perfectly on which intervals feel tense or relaxed, however, ....
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Academic publishing is now a marketised system where charging £9000 for a single paper isn't beyond the pale.
A new book by Samuel A. Moore proposes an alternative: a commons-based, scholar-led approach.
Read a #review by @thomasgraves.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
A new book by Samuel A. Moore proposes an alternative: a commons-based, scholar-led approach.
Read a #review by @thomasgraves.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? - Impact of Social Sciences
Publishing Beyond examines the ills of a marketised system of academic publishingand outlines how commons-based approaches could be an alternative.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Academic publishing is now a marketised system where charging £9000 for a single paper isn't beyond the pale.
A new book by Samuel A. Moore proposes an alternative: a commons-based, scholar-led approach.
Read a #review by @thomasgraves.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
A new book by Samuel A. Moore proposes an alternative: a commons-based, scholar-led approach.
Read a #review by @thomasgraves.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
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💥New: Who should control open access, the markets or the commons?
✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org
#OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms
✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org
#OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms
Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? - Impact of Social Sciences
Publishing Beyond examines the ills of a marketised system of academic publishingand outlines how commons-based approaches could be an alternative.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
💥New: Who should control open access, the markets or the commons?
✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org
#OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms
✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org
#OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms
This week I facilitated a workshop on Open Research for post-fieldwork Anthropology PhD students at LSE. It was really great to hear about their research projects and discuss scholar-led publishing, open access, repositories, and the ethics of data sharing. #openresearch #anthropology #ethnography
October 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This week I facilitated a workshop on Open Research for post-fieldwork Anthropology PhD students at LSE. It was really great to hear about their research projects and discuss scholar-led publishing, open access, repositories, and the ethics of data sharing. #openresearch #anthropology #ethnography
Really interesting! Not sure i’d want to be responsible for participants having needles stuck in their throat, but the data is bound to be fascinating youtu.be/JkBV8GoPWXY?...
The Science Behind Vocal Distortion: Will Ramos of Lorna Shore
YouTube video by The Charismatic Voice
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October 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Really interesting! Not sure i’d want to be responsible for participants having needles stuck in their throat, but the data is bound to be fascinating youtu.be/JkBV8GoPWXY?...
So sad to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 - follow live
The primatologist was a
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October 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
So sad to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
In Trump’s USA, someone who migrates to the US to marry a US citizen can apply for a green card immediately. In the UK, Labour want to extend the time it takes for a spouse to get Indefinite Leave to Remain to 10 years! Those centrists who support these new immigration rules should think on that.
September 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In Trump’s USA, someone who migrates to the US to marry a US citizen can apply for a green card immediately. In the UK, Labour want to extend the time it takes for a spouse to get Indefinite Leave to Remain to 10 years! Those centrists who support these new immigration rules should think on that.
Its too late, but at least it finally happened: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Starmer confirms formal UK recognition of Palestinian state - BBC News
Canada and Australia also announced the move on Sunday, with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu accusing leaders of giving a "huge reward to terrorism".
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September 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Its too late, but at least it finally happened: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ali Akbar Razi - master of soz - strikes again this Muharram! I really love Soz o Salaam - perhaps even more than qawwali with instruments! Those overlapping voices and slight discrepancies really stir something inside. youtu.be/9YAVmIuvgRk?...
Soz o Salaam - Azmat Nabi ke Deen ki Dikhlaa Gaye Hussain (AS) - Ali Akbar Razi Qawwal aur Humanava
YouTube video by The Dream Journey
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July 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Ali Akbar Razi - master of soz - strikes again this Muharram! I really love Soz o Salaam - perhaps even more than qawwali with instruments! Those overlapping voices and slight discrepancies really stir something inside. youtu.be/9YAVmIuvgRk?...
Reposted by Dr Thomas Graves
#OpenResearch has become a buzzword in university research, but Jo Hemlatha
@lseanthropology.bsky.social and @thomasgraves.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social write that #openness looks different when #research is context-dependent and involves marginalised communities @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
@lseanthropology.bsky.social and @thomasgraves.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social write that #openness looks different when #research is context-dependent and involves marginalised communities @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
What does “Open Research” mean for qualitative research? - Impact of Social Sciences
Open research has become a buzzword in university research, but Jo Hemlatha and Thomas Graves argue that when it comes to qualitative research, considerations around replicability, context-dependent…
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June 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#OpenResearch has become a buzzword in university research, but Jo Hemlatha
@lseanthropology.bsky.social and @thomasgraves.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social write that #openness looks different when #research is context-dependent and involves marginalised communities @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
@lseanthropology.bsky.social and @thomasgraves.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social write that #openness looks different when #research is context-dependent and involves marginalised communities @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
Very proud to have co-authored this blog post with Jo Hemlatha! It looks at how qualitative research methods contribute to open research through participatory methods, interpersonal openness, and linguistic openness. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #openresearch #openscience #qualitative
June 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Very proud to have co-authored this blog post with Jo Hemlatha! It looks at how qualitative research methods contribute to open research through participatory methods, interpersonal openness, and linguistic openness. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #openresearch #openscience #qualitative
Let’s talk about social anxiety in ethnographic research. I’ve always frozen up in social situations that seemed important. This seems like a problem in research, especially in fieldwork where there are certain people you want to speak to. Can an anxious person be a good ethnographer? #ethnography
June 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Let’s talk about social anxiety in ethnographic research. I’ve always frozen up in social situations that seemed important. This seems like a problem in research, especially in fieldwork where there are certain people you want to speak to. Can an anxious person be a good ethnographer? #ethnography
Happy to have been involved in the creation of two resources on preregistration and pre-analysis plans at LSE - one covering various methods, and one specifically for experimental methods:
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doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #guides #research
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #guides #research
LSE ORWG Guide: Preregistration, Pre-Analysis Plans, and Registered Reports
This is the second in a series of guides to open research created for LSE researchers under the auspices of LSE's Open Research Working Group. This guide covers some basic steps you will need to take ...
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June 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Happy to have been involved in the creation of two resources on preregistration and pre-analysis plans at LSE - one covering various methods, and one specifically for experimental methods:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #guides #research
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #guides #research
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With the last #OSFest25 session this afternoon, thank you to everyone who's been involved in each thought-provoking session and our co-hosts @lselibrary.bsky.social and
@crick.ac.uk. If you attended, hopefully you've taken away something useful. Let's keep up the dialogue about #OpenScience! 🔬📃
@crick.ac.uk. If you attended, hopefully you've taken away something useful. Let's keep up the dialogue about #OpenScience! 🔬📃
June 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
With the last #OSFest25 session this afternoon, thank you to everyone who's been involved in each thought-provoking session and our co-hosts @lselibrary.bsky.social and
@crick.ac.uk. If you attended, hopefully you've taken away something useful. Let's keep up the dialogue about #OpenScience! 🔬📃
@crick.ac.uk. If you attended, hopefully you've taken away something useful. Let's keep up the dialogue about #OpenScience! 🔬📃