Nominations 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]

Registration is now open for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) biennial global conference, hosted by the US branch (IASPM-US) in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota. The global conference has not been hosted in North America since 2007 and not in the US since 1993. The conference runs Monday, June 26…[Read more]

Hello, everyone!

As those of you who attended our January meeting might recall, the HHRIG currently assembling a hip-hop studies bibliography. In its current form, the bibliography is being drafted as a Google Doc and has just over fifty entries. I have also added a PDF copy of it to the Files Tab on this group page. I am reaching out today to…[Read more]

Hi Everyone!

We are currently accepting informal proposals and ideas for the topic and format of our Fall meeting. We will be in Denver in November for SMT, which is being held jointly with AMS. We are particularly interested in formats that include some element of interactivity with attendees, though any and all proposals will be considered. We…[Read more]

Popular Music Theory & Analysis Summer School (IPM-IPM-SMA)
Tuesday 29th – Thursday 31st August 2023, University of Liverpool
 

The Institutes of Popular Music of both Rochester and Liverpool, together with the Society for Music Analysis, are pleased to announce their second Summer School dedicated to popular music theory and analysis. Teachin…[Read more]

Hi all,

Please consider submitting a proposal for this special session at this year’s AMS/SMT conference.

Best,

Mikkel

CFP: Teaching Popular Music <wbr />Studies: Pedagogy and Curriculum
American Musicological Society Popular Music Study Group
Submission deadline: February 21, 2023
Conference Dates: November 9–12, 2023, Denver, CO
Keyno…[Read more]

Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media

>> UPDATE: new deadline for submission of proposals is Tuesday, January 31st @ 11:59pm

We are pleased to announce a three-day conference bringing together researchers and artists from a variety of music-related disciplines for a dialogue on the i…[Read more]

Five new positions (3 PhD, 2 Postdoc) announced at RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo:

https://www.uio.no/ritmo/english/about/working-at-ritmo/vacancies/index.html

The PhD position in Musical Rhythm and Groove is particularly relevant for Rap/Hip-hop analysts – and I would love it if…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media”

Harvard University Department of Music, May 11-13, 2023

Deadline for submissions: Friday, January 13, 2023

We are pleased to announce a three-day conference bringing together researchers and artists from a variety of music-related disci…[Read more]

Hello! I hope everyone had a great conference this weekend. I’ll be honest: my aural skills are terrible and very rusty. Furthermore, my guitar knowledge is practically nonexistent. Still, I love rock music.

I am looking for someone who can transcribe “Beautiful Blue” by Mudcrutch. I plan to use the transcription for personal analytical use.…[Read more]

Hello group!

I figured this would be the place to let you all know that Dr. Jaspal Singh of The Open University in the United Kingdom and myself have created a monthly reading group that discusses various texts regarding hip-hop culture, including but not limited to: theory, sociocultural discourse, race and gender, identity, etc. I have linked…[Read more]