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Paul David Flood
@pauldavidflood.bsky.social
Musicology PhD Candidate @ Eastman/UofR.
Thinking ab globalization, politics, and popular music in contemporary Europe.
Finishing(!) a dissertation on #Eurovision.
🏳️‍🌈 • Neurodivergent • First gen • he/him
More about me: https://tinyurl.com/sfhjfcbm
Happy AMS Week! I'll be presenting some dissertation(/future book project?) material on the Race, Nation, and Identity panel on Friday at 4pm. My talk will be of particular interest to folks thinking between popular music studies, global music history, and Afro-diasporic studies.
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is my third time on campus this semester and I think that’s beautiful
October 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Got to hang out with @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social in Atlanta!
October 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Turns out SEM’s conference hotel is the hotel where they filmed scenes of The Hunger Games. Someone page Chad Michaels quick
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Remember when North Macedonia tried to send the late great Romani singer Esma Redžepova to Eurovision with a song that glorified the ruling nationalist party’s controversial urban development project?

If not (or even if you do for some reason), come hear my paper at SEM on Friday morning!
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Spent my morning with some excellent students at Roberts Wesleyan University! I gave a guest lecture on one of my diss chapters, and the students were eager to critique notions of representation, sameness, and "world music." Thanks to my brilliant colleague Dr. Eleanor Price for the invite.
October 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
September 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Roc and Buf folks: Come celebrate Palestrina’s 500th with Voices this weekend AND at NY ACDA next month! Also feat. Bach, Brahms, Bruckner, Pearsall, Poulenc, and Witt.

Friday Sep. 26 at Holy Trinity in Buffalo, 7pm.
Sunday Sep. 28 at Incarnate Word in Rochester, 4pm.
Friday Oct. 17 at NY ACDA.
September 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Music studies besties! Celebrating our dear friend @queertrumpeter.bsky.social’s wedding this evening 🥹🥲💖 @alejandrinammedina.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Googling yourself is wild because apparently you’ll find photos of yourself that you didn’t even know existed! Here’s me chairing a panel at IASPM-US/PopCon 2025 in LA this past March. Thank god my thinking/listening face lowkey serves.

(📸 Joe Mabel)
August 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Proofs are in! Catch my article on Afro-Swedishness in/and Eurovision in next month’s issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies.

If you’re prepping a syllabus on popular music, European culture and politics, Black transnationalisms, or something related, please consider assigning this!
August 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
North Macedonia’s response to the Spice Girls in Eurovision 2000 was iconic—for all the wrong reasons. Nevertheless, this hit platinum in my household.
August 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Tomorrow morning at #CES25 in Philly!
June 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I may be losing my mind trying to finish my dissertation but I just got a haircut so at least I’m cute
June 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Are you kidding me
June 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Now enjoying a tea by the lake in Zurich. Pretty stuff! Back to the US tomorrow and Rochester on Thursday.
May 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Some photos from my last 36 hours in Basel. This was an AMAZING week (albeit the incredibly stressful last 15mins of the Final) spent with the most incredible colleagues and friends!
May 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
My top 10 going into tonight’s Final!
May 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Anyway
May 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Day one of our Eurovision research salon! Grateful for such wonderful, brilliant, and inspiring friends and colleagues in the small world of Eurovision studies.
May 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
#Eurovision scholars in Basel predict their semifinal 1 qualifiers:

cc @drjessc.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
YUP
May 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A year ago today! So grateful for the invitation to join Malmö University’s School of Arts and Communication as a Visiting Scholar last year. There, I gave a talk on one of my dissertation chapters.

Very excited that an article version of this chapter will be published later this year!
May 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Some good news to start the week: I received another teaching award from my institution, specifically for teaching my course “Global Encounters in Music since 1900” last semester.
April 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
RPO playing bangers tn 🇨🇿🇫🇮
April 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM