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]

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]

Hello! At our next PMIG meeting, which is Saturday, Nov 3 at 12:30PM in San Antonio, we will spend the majority of our time in small group discussion. We will break our increasingly massive interest group up into smaller groups based on common interests, and the groups will use that time to network, share ideas, and so on.

To determine what…[Read more]

I’m trying to track down a paper or the researcher listed on the website from the 2016 round table. The presentation is listed as:

John Mattessich (Florida State University): “Generative Elements in the Music of Kendrick Lamar”

I can’t find a record of him at Florida State and all the usual research avenues have turned up nothing.

Any help appreciated!