Emily Gale

Pop music scholar + feminist = PhDiva, University of Virginia. Writing a book about the history of sentimental pop songs. #FirstGen. Fashion & style. She/her.

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

“Oh, Lady, Touch Thy Lute Again” and “Listen to My Wild Guitar” are the most intriguing songs in The Parlour Songster, offering an early pop history of guitar sex double entendre. #guitars #musichistory #popscholar

[Pop Conference @popconorg]

For info on which #popcon2023 events are being live streamed today & tomorrow visit https://t.co/AsTKCp1WbH

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

I’ll be talking about home songs and domesticity @UCDSchoolMusic tomorrow at 5pm. Free and open to interested parties if you’re in the area!

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

@touchofallright Good shout!

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

@Lexi_LouW @McGillQueensUP Huzzah! 🎉🥳

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

—we consider how love songs invite us to listen—Communally? Anti-oppressively (Alisha Lola Jones, 2021)?—across boundaries as well as within them.

Get in touch at [email protected]!

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

Hey lovers! Any pop scholars interested in collaborating with me and Dr. Charissa Granger on an American Studies panel on love songs? Conference is 2-5 November in Montreal. Deadline is 1 Feb (soon)!

Proposed title & overview: Silly Love Songs? What Love Sounds Like in Public

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

others sound out love as a verb (bell hooks, 2000) and as pleasurable political resistance (adrienne maree brown, 2019). Challenging simplistic yet still familiar binaries of private/public; sentiment/reason; feminine/masculine; and care/justice–among others

[Department of Music, UCC @MusicUCC]

📣📣We are delighted to welcome Dr Ann-Marie Hanlon (virtually) for her lecture:"Gendered Experiences of the Irish Music Industry" as part of our ongoing Fuaim lecture series. This Thurs 24th Nov at 11am. Join us in person in the Ó Riada Hall or email: [email protected] for link.

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

@tracy_monaghan Tried Cuñada yesterday—was lovely and delicious. Indoor seating only, but was very quiet at 4pm.

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

Tip: Google maps suggests an estimated $60-75 USD Lyft from the airport into New Orleans. Taxi stand was a fixed $36. If your institution is picking up the tab and/or you’re permanently employed, please do as others are and offer to share! #musicon22

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

He scoffs: “Pop music is shite!”
Then continues: “That wasn’t pop. That was indie! I’m sorry 4 U.” We part ways. Reader, the band closed the show with an encore singalong of “Without You.” Couldn’t make it up if I tried. Apparently I’m researching even when I’m not. #poptimist

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

Rockism lives! Leaving Angel Olsen gig, white man, 60ish, leans in: “You know what I’d do if I were YOUR age???” I did not ask, but pls, do go on. “I’d move to London to learn about REAL music!” he announces. I pause to consider my next move: “I’m 42 and a lecturer in pop music.”

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

Sentimental Songs for Sentimental People has a new home @UCC983FM On air now!

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

Still another month to get your abstracts in for IASPM 2023 in Minneapolis: Conference call for papers | IASPM https://t.co/eokd94lBvx

[UCC 98.3FM @UCC983FM]

Calling all New/Local bands in Cork! 🎷📻

UCC98.3fm are now looking for some new music to share on our station and broadcast to our thousands of listeners around Cork and beyond!🎺
Do you have what it takes for your music to be played on our shows? -

[Emily Gale @Sentimentemily]

We’ll be livestreaming tomorrow’s FUAIM Lecture via the Music at UCC YouTube channel for those outside of Cork!

[Department of Music, UCC @MusicUCC]

Join us in Ó Riada Hall, Music Department, UCC this Thursday, 13th October at 11am for the next speaker in the FUAIM lecture series, Dr. Lijuan Qian, senior lecturer in Music @UCC. The lecture is titled "Hip Hop in China and Its Multi-Dimensional Narratives."
All welcome!👏👏