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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Aug 27

You can access the article here:

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Billie Eilish and the Feminist Aesthetics of Depression: White Femininity, Generation Z, and Whisper Singing

Abstract. This article analyzes the representation of depression in Billie Eilish’s music and reception as reflective of its complex status in the West as a clinical diagnosis and lived experience, an...

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Aug 27

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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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Aug 16

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

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Apr 28

Featuring @dandipiero.bsky.social @lauronkehrer.bsky.social @musicolojill.bsky.social @jkopcienski.bsky.social @maconholt.bsky.social @jakedownsmusic.bsky.social @michellemeinhart.bsky.social @ajitpaulmangat.com and many, many more!

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Apr 28

@4euplusalliance.bsky.social

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Apr 28

@sorbonne-universite.fr

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Apr 28

Registration opens May 1. La conférence se déroulera en anglais. Space is limited. Explore our program, paper abstracts, and speaker bios on our website: depressioninpopconference2025.com/conference-p...

Depression in Popular Music International Conference, June 26- 27, 2025, Sorbonne University (Paris, France)

Conference Program: Depression in Popular Music Programme d’Événement: La Dépression dans la Musique Populaire June 26-27, 2025 – Paris, France Sorbonne University Pierre Louis Institut…

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Apr 28

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:

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Apr 16

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. 🫶🏻

Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · Apr 16

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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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Apr 16

Lollll 🙄

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Apr 15

Thank you so much for all of your scholarship, and for the many ways it’s informed my own! Thank you for leading today’s discussion and for your wonderful questions!

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · Apr 15

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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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Apr 14

Very excited/nervous for tomorrow with the brilliant @robinjames.bsky.social and @dandipiero.bsky.social!

Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · Apr 14

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:

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Popular Music Books in Process Series

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Apr 12

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.

Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · Apr 11

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...

The cover of Dan DiPiero's BIG FEELINGS: QUEER & FEMINIST INDIE ROCK AFTER RIOT GIRL, depicts a graphic-art figure with a guitar and an exploding head of red and blue colour, on a lavendar background.

A picture of Jessica A. Holmes, the author of work-in-progress The Musical Vernacular of Depression, smiling while browsing at a bookshelf.

Robin James, the author of "Resilience & Melancholy: pop music, feminism, neoliberalism," looks into the camera with her swooping blue-dyed hair and chunky black glasses.

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Mar 5

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

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Mar 1

The chapter previews a slice of my forthcoming book *Music at the Margins of Sense* (UMichigan Press). I'm grateful to Robin James + Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta for their editorial leadership, and humbled to be part of the handbook! @robinjames.bsky.social @lmgm.bsky.social

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Mar 1

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...

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Feb 27

If you're in Copenhagen, please join us!

Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Feb 27

The event is co-sponsored by the UCPH Art & Health and Art & Earth research clusters in collaboration with the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Difference and Christa Holm Vogelius.

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Feb 27

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

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Feb 5

The lecture is FREE and open to the public. No registration is required. Building and auditorium are wheelchair accessible. Jointly funded by the UCPH "Art & Health" and "Art & Earth" interdisciplinary research clusters, and organized in collaboration with Christa Holm Vogelius and UCPH InterGen.

Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Feb 5

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...
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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Jan 21

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

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Jan 7

L'annonce en français:
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Conférence internationale sur la dépression dans la musique populaire les 26-27 juin 2025

Nous sommes ravis d’annoncer la Conférence internationale sur la dépression dans la musique populaire, qui se tiendra les 26 et 27 juin 2025. Cet événement est coorganisé par Jessica A. Holmes, profes...

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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · Jan 7

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

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