Congratulations to Paul David Flood, PhD Musicology candidate, for being the 2024 winner of the Presser Graduate Music Award, a substantial grant from the Presser Foundation to support a professional-development project by a graduate student. During the summer of 2024, he traveled to Malmö, Sweden to pursue innovative ethnographic research into the cultural significance of the Eurovision Song Contest, and the cultural uses of popular music in general.
The ESM Community is invited to attend a presentation about his experience: “Crying at the EuroClub: Queer Diasporas, Rainbow Europe, and the Politics of Escapism at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest” on Thursday, January 30 at 4:00 pm in Hatch Recital Hall.