From Leonora Saavadra:

Assistant Professor of Popular Music
University of California, Riverside

Anticipated 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]

Congratulations to our new PMIG officers!

Chair: Emily Milius
Secretary: Madison Stepherson
Webmaster: Sophia Wetzel

Please use the link to vote for your PMIG officers for 2024:

VOTE

Voting will close Friday, 12/1 @5pm Eastern.

If 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!

Proposals for the 2024 IASPM-US conference, at Drexel University in Philidelphia, are due November 20th. You can find more details here.

Here is the poll for our bylaw revisions:

Poll

You can review our current bylaws here:

Current Bylaws

Please complete the poll by Sunday, November 19th @ 5:00pm EST.

Hello FMIG members! Here is a link to the new Film Music Theory Examples website that was mentioned in the SMT meeting:

https://maxsteinerinstitute.org/theoryexamples/index.php

If you have film music examples that you use in your theory classes, please help us by ADDING them to the website (which is just getting started and needs some more…[Read more]

Hello again!

This serves as the final reminder that our upcoming Film and Multimedia Interest Group meeting is scheduled for 7:30 PM on Friday, November 10, in the “Silver” meeting room. We will be hosting a session of fabulous Work-in-Progress Lightning Talks by Abigail Shupe, Eileen Snyder, Chelsea Oden, Gui Hwan Lee, and Morgan Weeks. We wil…[Read more]

Following 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]

We 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]

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to invite all of you to our upcoming Film and Multimedia Interest Group meeting at the SMT Annual Meeting in Denver this November! The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 PM on Friday, November 10. For this year’s meetup, we will be hosting a session of Work-in-Progress Lightning Talks.

The presenters will offer 1…[Read more]

We 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]

Music theorists working in film and multimedia: Do you have a wonderful idea for a paper that you are planning to submit to the Music and the Moving Image Conference this year? Are you working on a presentation in hopes to present at the North American Conference on Video Game Music? What about a multimedia related project you are thinking of…[Read more]