Scott Spencer

I am honored to be appointed to the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities for the academic years 2025-7. The theme of this cohort is "Sites of Inquiry" and I will be working on my next book project, "Sound in Sacred Spaces."

USC's Musicology department at the Society for American Music conference, Tacoma. Presenters included Alison Maggart, James Delorey and Scott Spencer.

Maggart: Becoming-Immersed: Soundbaths
Delory: Meredith Willson’s Lost “O. O. McIntyre” Radio Suite
Spencer: Bagpipe Bands in Public Memorials

It’s a deal

Ok snafu around the registration but here is El Producto: youtu.be/f2tdQqb48v8?...

- Giulia Bratosin and Scott Spencer (USC), “Digital Humanities in the World Music Classroom: Fostering Peer-Built Diversity and Inclusivity.”

- Maia Law (USC), “Syncretism Through Serenades: The Impact of Spanish Colonization on Filipino Folk Music.”
- Aydin Quach (USC), “Orienting Towards Techno-Asiatics: The Place of Affect in Asian North American Consumption of Electronic Dance Music.”

- Avery Robinson (USC), “Black Music Metamorphosis: The Revitalization of Enslaved African Musical Traditions Through Stepping.”
- Dr. León F. García Corona (USC), “In and Out of Academia: Exploring Career Paths and Opportunities.”

USC Music had a great presence at the Society for Ethnomusicology local chapter annual conference. Four papers and a featured presentation - 10% of the conference, and we don't even have an ethnomusicology program! Here are Maia, Aydin, Avery, Léon, Giulia and me-self at UCLA. Paper titles below.

I'm giving a talk today for the Museum of Newport Irish History - Monday Feb. 24 6ET/3PT. Topic: Traditional Music and Irish-American Identity at the Dawn of the Recording Age. www.NewportIrishHistory.org Come join via Zoom!

Soundscapes class: testing out acoustic spaces with various instruments to see how space changed performance practice and audience reception.

I'm honored to be giving a talk for the Museum of Newport Irish History on Feb. 24. Topic: Traditional Music and Irish-American Identity at the Dawn of the Recording Age. Come join via zoom! www.NewportIrishHistory.org

USC as well

Thanks to #JewishwomenofLA for the shout out! And Shabbat shalom, friends. ✡️🧿🪬
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World Music class win: Cardin Chung (USC Dance) demonstrates a glove he developed, which translates motion and resistance to sound.

I played in a folk music band in St. Paul, MN. We volunteered to play for a fundraiser before a St. Paul Saints (baseball) game for the local hospital’s childrens’ burn unit. It was a pig roast. They roasted a pig for the burned kids. Roasted pig next to roasted kids. The band got it. Only the band

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My amazing spouse is developing a Starter Pack on Jewish Spirituality - BlueSky is good at catching and forming newly arrived communities! Please send to likely suspects.
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Thanks for this ! I'd love to be part of the cool crowd-

Modern technology worship rituals pt. 2: Siwen Xi sets them up and knocks them down. A comps defense in Music Teaching and Learning at USC.

Thank you! Will do.
Kate Galloway springs to mind: @kategalloway.bsky.social

Created a starter pack for Ethnomusicology studies. Please let me know if you want to add to the list.
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Thanks so much for making this, Bala! I've been hoping for this! I'd love to be considered for inclusion.

New title drop:
“Bookshelfiality: An Ontological Tinting of Shelf”

#HBWALHS? (How Bad Would Adorno Lose His Shit?)

Modern technology worship rituals: The dissertation proposal defense.

Thank you!

Oooo!! Oooo! Pick me!

Now THAT is a library! Bonus: owl-themed acroteria! (acroterae? acroterums?)

I’ve read that there is still an original spring in Washington Square Park - and to see it you have to open a closet in the basement of one of the apartment buildings on the northeast corner.

And a Canal (street)!!!

Thanks for setting this up! I may qualify, sort of. Interested for sure!