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!
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Job: UC Riverside, Assistant Professor of Popular Music in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 1 year, 12 months agoFrom Leonora Saavadra:
Assistant Professor of Popular Music
University of California, RiversideAnticipated start: July 1, 2024
Salary will be commensurate with education and experience and will be dependent on final placement at rank and step.
To ensure full consideration, applications and supporting material should be received by Monday,…[Read more] -
Marcello Messina deposited Toward lite coding: Designing the emugel prototype to boost music-computational thinking in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThe concept of lite coding is proposed as a place-holder for a growing body of practices within ubimus. We present the Erlang Music Generation Library 1.0 (emugel), a prototype for casual musicking that features a simplified notation to represent pitch, durations, dynamics and timbre with an emphasis on handling event patterns. We describe the…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic New PMIG Officers in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCongratulations to our new PMIG officers!
Chair: Emily Milius
Secretary: Madison Stepherson
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Trevor deClercq replied to the topic Vote for Officers! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoHi, Matthew. Are there bios available somewhere for these officer candidates?
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Vote for Officers! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoPlease use the link to vote for your PMIG officers for 2024:
Voting will close Friday, 12/1 @5pm Eastern.
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Matthew Ferrandino replied to the topic Voting CLOSED: Bylaws Amendments in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoVoting has concluded, all proposed amendments have been passed.
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic 2023 Denver Session Materials in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoIf you missed our fantastic session in Denver, or would like a refresher, Cora Palfy and Jennifer Snodgrass have graciously agreed to share their presentation materials with us. Both can be found on our HC page under the “Files” section.
Thank you Cora and Jennifer!
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Matthew Ferrandino uploaded the file: Snodgrass – Sitting in Studio Sessions: BAckwards Design in Commercial Music Theory to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoPPT of presentation given at SMT PMIG 2023 in Denver.
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Matthew Ferrandino uploaded the file: Palfy – Curricular Structure and Backwards Design to
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoPDF of presentation given at SMT PMIG 2023 in Denver.
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic IASPM-US 2024 CFP: November 20 Deadline in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoProposals for the 2024 IASPM-US conference, at Drexel University in Philidelphia, are due November 20th. You can find more details here.
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Voting CLOSED: Bylaws Amendments in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoHere is the poll for our bylaw revisions:
You can review our current bylaws here:
Please complete the poll by Sunday, November 19th @ 5:00pm EST.
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Matthew Ferrandino replied to the topic PMIG Bylaws: Revisions and Updates in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAmendments have been added as comments to the above Google Doc. We’ll go through these briefly during our Friday session in Denver. We will post a voting form for each of the seven suggested amendments following our PMIG session, which will be open until Friday November 17th.
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Denver: Informal Post-Session Discussion Space in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoFollowing our formal PMIG session we will have an opportunity for an informal breakout discussion in Governer’s Square 10 regarding pop “theory” papers and conference options. Brad Osborn and Alyssa Barna will speak briefly about this at the end of our session, so this is a time and place to continue that conversation. We have the space on Friday…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Officer Nominations 2024 Open! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoWe are seeking nominations for the following officer positions for SMT’s Popular Music Interest Group. Self nominations are encouraged! Please email all nominations to pmigwebmaster@gmail.com. Nominations will close at 5:00 pm EST on Nov. 26, 2023.
CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting re…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Denver PMIG Session in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoWe are excited to have two amazingly wonderful scholars and pedagogues share their insights on popular music pedagogy at our session in Denver. Jennifer Snodgrass and Cora Palfy will offer their perspectives on backwards design in music theory curriculum. A schedule for our session and details on their presentations are below.
SMT PMIG, Friday…[Read more]
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Megan Lavengood replied to the topic PMIG Bylaws: Revisions and Updates in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoI’ll suggest new language to clarify and specify what kinds of scholarship should be considered for the Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award, as follows (additions in bold):
The Chair will solicit nominations for the Interest Group’s two publication awards annually. Anyone may nominate a publication for an award. An Award C…
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic PMIG Bylaws: Revisions and Updates in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoOne item on the business meeting agenda for the PMIG meeting in Denver this year will be updating the group’s bylaws. We would like to begin this process by soliciting changes from group members in advance of the meeting.
The current bylaws are available to view and download from Google Drive. Interested parties should access this document,…[Read more]
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Jacob P. Cupps started the topic PMIG 2023 Awards Nominations are Open! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoNominations are officially open for the Popular Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award—click on these links to nominate. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively impacted you. Self-nominations are especially encouraged! Note that to be eligible for an award, the public…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited Formal Functions and Rotations in Top-40 EDM in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoPublications on form in popular music have largely assumed the formal sections germane to pop-rock to be the formal designs of “popular music.” But the most popular music of our time—music charting on the Billboard Top-40—has absorbed the influence of electronic dance music (EDM) in a way that has fundamentally changed its formal structu…[Read more]
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