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Great to see @auralflaneur in conversation about her new Free Listening earlier in the week Humanities Division Faculty of Music 💙🖤🤍

I’m very sorry but Noreen has unfortunately died from the side effects of constantly keeping a nice expression on her face while people say stupid things

The final Graduate Research Colloquium of term is on Tuesday! Join us as Jacob Kingsbury Downs combines a musicological interest in the composition of Beyoncé’s sonic aesthetic with philosophical exploration of the foregrounding of affective articulation in the album 'RENAISSANCE'

We're delighted to announce that Professor Laura Tunbridge has been appointed to the Heather Professorship of Music, with effect from October 2025. Prof Tunbridge will also be a fellow of Wadham College.

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me at 23:59:50 today:

learning about azealia banks in my 9am lecture

Unclassified Live last night was magic: dancing + ritual in music by Nwando Ebizie, the world’s first 🤘 doom symphony 🤘 from Divide and Dissolve (it was epic) and the beautiful songs of @BRyderJones orchestrated by Jacob Kingsbury Downs made us all 💔 Behind the scenes at rehearsals and

Our Lady Margaret Hall Faculty of Music student Christopher Churcher has just launched a fundraiser with Somerville College Choir to support his debut album: supportsomerville.com/campaigns/supp…. He is very talented, and I am very proud. Any donations will be greatly appreciated!

Very close to being considered for debate; please sign so we can fix our backward abortion laws before the incoming Reform government does it for us: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…

The Pentagon flagged an image of the Enola Gay—the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima—for removal, on DEI grounds, because of its name.

You can also find out about media appearances by Faculty members, including tonight's episode of BBC Radio 3's The Essay, which has been written and recorded by Jacob Kingsbury Downs and discusses the intimacy of radio. music.ox.ac.uk/media

Tonight on BBC Radio 3 in The Essay Jacob Kingsbury Downs on 'the intimacy of radio' and the studies of composer and philosopher Theodor Adorno bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

At 21:45 this evening BBC Radio 3 ‘The intimacy of radio’ Jacob Kingsbury Downs #TheodorAdorno #AI #Music #Philosophy bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Tonight’s BBC Radio 3 Essay is from me mate and all-round lovely Jacob Kingsbury Downs on the intimacy of radio. Will be well worth tuning in. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Hans Keller's 'Group functioning of a string quartet' is the topic for the Graduate Research Colloquium on Thursday 8 May. Professors Eric Clarke, Laura Tunbridge, Jennifer Walshe, and Dr Jacob Kingsbury Downs will each give brief presentations. music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-05-08…

Do we have to do this every time

🗞️ LMH’s Organising Tutor in Music and Chair of Faculty of Music , Dr Jacob Downs, wrote and recorded an episode of BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Essay’, titled The Intimacy of Radio. Head to lmh.ox.ac.uk/news to read more, where you can also find a link to the full episode 🔗

*New article!* max blansjaar and I have written an essay about Taylor Swift for the Journal of Popular Music Studies. It's open access for the next 30 days via this link: online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article/3…

back on my bullshit i wrote a long essay about confessional pop music with Jacob Kingsbury Downs which was published in JPMS today it features opinions about taylor swift (link below)