@itscaro
i like old music, book history, English nuns, & theories on time, space, and gender 💒🎶💖hawt early modernist specialising in music, AHRC post-doc on the ‘Music Heritage and Place’ project (Royal Holloway/ Newcastle University)📚 they/them
It’s boxing day and I have now forced all my relatives to read my posts while recovering from The Turkey ™️
If you’re looking for something to mentally digest on this fine day, our blogposts may well hit the spot the turkey missed! 🎄🍗🎁
Many thanks to @kresenkernow.bsky.social for their support of our work 🥰 Nadelik Lowen!
And that’s the final post out! Check out my piece for the MHP project on Cornish carols, and why Davies Gilbert is …. Well, you’ll have to read the blog to find out 🙃⬇️🎄
www.musicheritageplace.uk/posts/carols...
Our next stop will be at @kresenkernow.bsky.social - keep your eyes peeled…
… while part 2 covers Dorset carolling and Thomas Hardy. We’re grateful for work done thus far by @wessexmuseums.bsky.social and @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social on Hardy’s fascination with carols, and their support of our work on a rich and growing area of research!
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It’s the last week of term and you know what that means… carols with caro! I’ve written a 3-part blog series of for @musicheritageplace.bsky.social documenting our work on music for Christmas thus far 🎶🎄 part 1 is an introduction to carols and overview of our work…
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Huge props to Andrew Woolley for clocking the Norfolk source as copied by Purcell, with his telltale scribal quirks ✍️
I was honestly so shocked to find this fragment; so much of the time when items are listed as ‘songs’ it’s just text without notation, but not all the time, and that is why it is important to check!
Belated announcement - it was a pleasure to have my discoveries in Worcestershire and Norfolk county archives of new Purcell sources covered by the Guardian! When I harp on at my colleagues about how they should make sure to comb archives, carefully this is why…
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
I’m sorry but no fucking way
No fucking way is this how my parents find out about furries
Putting ‘went to summer camp with Jeffrey Epstein’ on my CV
Sometimes I think about how I played viola at junior conservatoire at University of Michigan, & how they helped local state schools send kids to Interlochen every summer. Anyways the Umich head of strings got convicted for child sex trafficking & Jeffrey Epstein had a holiday home at Interlochen
Also if you are interested in the history of gender, mental illness, and social precarity for early modern women, this is the article 4 u
*this is not real and there is no evidence indicating this I made it up and I will absolutely do it again
Third article in a year, smashed 💪 if you are interested in convents, English catholic history, French baroque music, and/or material for my forthcoming steamy HBO show in which Francois Couperin fights his friend for the love of his friend’s wife*, check it out ➡️ academic.oup.com/em/article/d...
Sad to miss yours too! Been there - I know how lucky I am. Hopefully soon 🤞
Second in-person MedRen smashed 💪
Phenomenal work by @medren2025.bsky.social continuing an unusually anarchic conference tradition. This conference stands out among other musicology conferences for its unique combo of high levels of calibre, craic, and camp, and it was a delight to be a part of 🥰
No gods no masters only Mari Lywd and a bottle of bucky
Slides are in, come to my papers to become uncontainable
In hindsight signing up to do two papers at @medren2025.bsky.social might have been overly ambitious
Finally writing my long awaited hater paper for a conference and it is exhilarating
Happy pride, don’t forget to get a nice card for your wife’s bisexual twunk boyfriend and leave out cookies and milk for Cher xxx
If anyone anywhere needs help navigating the system, or support in other ways, please reach out, either to me or whomever you need. @willtheanderson.bsky.social and I couldn’t shoulder this burden alone, and we are so grateful to our friends and family (chosen or otherwise).
Next stop: citizenship, in the country I have lived in my entire life.
It took nearly 11 years of the state trying to bankrupt us, wear us down, & destroy any sense that I belonged to a community or family. But they couldn’t, and now, the home office has conceded that I do in fact belong here: I have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain. And I ain’t going nowhere.
This is genuinely one of the hardest things to square psychologically: the very real fear one feels at being an immigrant dealing with hostile environment while also feeling guilty knowing that it is much easier for you as a ‘good immigrant’ (white with cultural capital and/or liquidity)
Today @musicheritageplace.bsky.social premieres on the radio! Tune every day this week to @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social at 9.45 pm into hear about music history, enclosure, social history, and more 🎵
Its so rare as academics to get a chance to collectively dig down into fundamental issues with how we do research and have good, intense, productive debates, let alone play a small role in shaping how Early Music Happens - privilege indeed! 😊
Being raised in the Midwest (and spending a significant portion of your childhood in buttf*ck nowhere Indiana) is wild sometimes
I am back at it with EarlyMuse this week in Bern and it has occurred to me I may be 1 of 20-30 people ever to have visited both Bern, Switzerland and Berne, Indiana