My review of Jarjour's book "Syriac Chant in Aleppo" has been published in Ethnomusicology Forum.
I recommend the book for anyone interested in the circulation of musical emotions, or what "mode" means in music.
Read my review: doi.org/10.1080/1741...
#ethnomusicology #musicresearch #bookreview
Today I presented my paper “Presentation, presence, and the present: the many meanings of hāzirī at Chishti dargahs and qawwālī performances in South Asia” at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology conference at @kingsmusic.bsky.social
#ethnomusicology #musicresearch #spirituality
Exciting day! Today my copy of Music, Mortality, Memory arrived.
You can buy the book here: lnkd.in/ey8qVZtZ
You can read a pre-publication version of my chapter on Durham’s Open Access repository here: lnkd.in/eb4XbQMa
#musicresearch #book #death #anthropology #ethnomusicology #greenopenaccess
Our article is now assigned to volume 30, issue 1!
doi.org/10.1177/1029...
Citation: Graves, T. A., Eerola, T., Clayton, M., Nizami, S. M., & Rafiq, M. U. (2026). A genre-specific structure of subjective feeling in music listening: What do qawwālī listeners feel? Musicae Scientiae, 30(1), 3-26.
Had a great time yesterday at #OxFOS talking about my work with Annayah Prosser and Madeleine Pownall on open reaearch and positivism creep!
Lots of interesting stuff on open qualitative research and AI.
Photos by Domi Smithson and Annayah Prosser
#openresearch #library #Oxford
My chapter "Death, Jubilation, and Juxtaposition in Qawwālī" is now published in "Music, Mortality, Memory", edited by Matthew McCullough and Douglas Davies.
Publisher version: brill.com/display/book...
AAM available on Durham's research repository: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4989911
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
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
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
Thanks for the share!
Hi Dr Yates - the “Do different musics create different emotions?” question is a hook - the actual RQs for the study are about mapping agreement around subjective feeling categories and how those categories are related to each other. Unfortunately thats not as pithy!
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
The linkedin links were shorter and actually fit. Here are the actual dois: doi.org/10.1177/1029...; doi.org/10.15128/r2m...
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
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...
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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
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
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
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
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, ....
This is really fascinating! I do wonder whether the presentation of intervals decontextualised from a melodic structure (as in a Western context) might prompt a Western listening schema in Indian musicians, as intervals are presented outside the context of the raga melody, intonation, and chalan?
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
This is a really great read!
Thank you for writing it! Much needed I think!
💥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
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?...
