Founded in 1998, the Popular Music Interest Group is dedicated to promoting the scholarly study of popular music through methods including musical analysis and theory. Our goals include:
• Ensuring academic recognition for popular music research
• Encouraging more scholars of music theory to engage popular repertoires
• Encouraging scholars of popular music to make effective use of musical analysis and theory

On our Humanities Commons site, we rely on our members to help edit this resource — this cooperation will help continually improve the presence of popular music in our classrooms and scholarship. Many thanks!

SMT PMIG 2022 Session

2 replies, 1 voice Last updated by Matthew Ferrandino 3 years, 7 months ago
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    • 5 May 2022 at 3:51 pm EDT #58159

      Matthew Ferrandino
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      @mferrandino

      Hi Everyone!

      We are currently accepting informal proposals and ideas for the topic and format of our Fall meeting. We will be back in person for SMT in November, which is being held jointly with AMS and SEM. In the past, formats that included some element of interactivity with attendees beyond the typical Q&A have been particularly successful, so topics and formats that afford a workshop or group activity are encouraged. Please send any and all ideas to pmigwebmaster@gmail.com by Sunday May 22nd.

    • 9 June 2022 at 10:04 am EDT #59262

      Matthew Ferrandino
      Participant
      @mferrandino

      Hi All!

      We’ve narrowed down our choices for our 2022 session to three topics! Please fill out this Google Form by Monday, June 13.

      https://docs.google.com/forms/<wbr />d/e/<wbr />1FAIpQLSc4J6vWy6sqkaUMtRUjUFSQ<wbr />MiAQ5Lnl6INjpEJMVD0wbtbwIQ/<wbr />viewform?usp=pp_url

      Thanks!

      -Matt

       

    • 20 June 2022 at 5:55 pm EDT #59716

      Matthew Ferrandino
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      @mferrandino

      Thank you all for your input, our topic will be on timbre and production! Below is the CFP:

      AMS/SEM/SMT New Orleans 2022:
      Call for Papers hosted by the Society for Music Theory’s Popular Music Interest GroupInterpreting and Analyzing Timbre and Production in Popular Music

      In recent years, scholars such as Victoria Maleway, Megan Lavengood, and Ciro Scotto have researched topics of the voice, the synthesizer, and the electric guitar, expanding music-theoretical literature on the role of timbre and production of popular music. The PMIG is delighted to announce a call for papers that expands on this topic and explores marginalized artists, methodologies, and/or approaches that broaden the way we think about timbre and production.

      We are soliciting proposals for short (10–12 minute) presentations. Please submit a 300-word proposal to pmigwebmaster@gmail.com by 5:00 pm (EST) on Sunday, July 10. We especially welcome proposals that draw on scholarship created by a diverse array of scholars, writers, and thinkers. Accepted proposers will be notified by Friday, July 15.

      Bibliographic Resources:

      Robin James’ Critical Philosophies of Race + Music

      SMT PMIG’s Popular Music Bibliography

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