Hello! At our next meeting, I would like to vote in some bylaws. While bylaws are not at present common in the SMT Interest Groups, I think it may be the right time for our group, for a few reasons:

1. I am proposing a change to term length and the number of officers.
2. Our group regularly gives awards, and the process for administration of the…

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The University of Nottingham has a recent opening for a part-time (29hr/week) assistant professor of music with a popular music focus. Apply if you’re interested!

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/ARTS134019X1

Starting in April, the Met Museum in NYC will feature an exhibition on rock instruments, titled “Play It Loud.” More information below. h/t Lynne Rogers.

For the first time, a major museum exhibition will examine the instruments of rock and roll. One of the most important artistic movements of the twentieth century, rock and roll’s seismic i…

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Hi all,

The nominations for SMT Publication Awards are due April 1st. It would be great to see some scholarship on popular music topics represented this year! See a message from myself and a few colleagues below:

We are reaching out to encourage you to submit nominations by April 1 for this year’s SMT Outstanding Publication Awards. In 2018, t…[Read more]

Hi all –
The copyright office issued their proposed rule for the new 1401(c) section of the copyright law. This part of the new MMA addresses non-commercial use of orphaned/abandoned sound recordings.https://www.federalregister.<wbr />gov/documents/2019/02/05/2019-<wbr />00873/noncommercial-use-of-<wbr />pre-1972-sound-recordings-<wbr…

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Hi all –

There has been some very lively conversation about digital lending of ebooks by libraries happening. In case you missed it, Kyle Courtney and Dave Hansen released a white paper about digitizing ebooks and controlled lending (a la what many public libraries have with overdrive/adobe digital…[Read more]

I have updated my List of Open-Access Music Journals, the most comprehensive such list online. It now has over 140 entries in a variety of languages. Please be in touch if you know of a journal that should be added to the list!List of Open-Access Music Journals

(cross-posted in case there are people here who aren’t in the American Musicological…[Read more]

If you work on pop music and film or video games, I encourage you to respond to the call for papers below!

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Theory and Practice invites submissions for Vol. 44, to be published in early 2020. Submissions in any subfield of music theory are welcome, although topics relating to cross-medial interactions are especially encouraged. Please…[Read more]

You should have received Danuta Mirka’s email (if you are subscribed to SMT-announce) calling for nominations of publications for the various SMT publication awards. I urge everyone to especially consider any pop music publications for nominations. A quick glance through past awards shows very little from our subdiscipline, so let’s work to change…[Read more]

Dear PMIG members,

It was a pleasure to see so many of you at SMT! We had a total of 44 members in attendance.

This message brings you important highlights from our meeting. The full debrief is attached.

• VOTE ON LANGUAGE CHANGE FOR AWARDS—Please navigate to https://goo.gl/forms/Gt12aKoctmONtmv22 to vote on a minor language change for the O…

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The SMT Popular Music Interest Group has two awards to recognize recent research in pop music. The Outstanding Publication Award was established in 2012, and exists to acknowledge the best article, essay, or book involving the theory and/or analysis of popular music by a senior scholar. Since 2013, the PMIG also grants the Adam Krims Award to a j…[Read more]