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]

The SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group invites proposals for “work-in-progress” talks to be presented at our interest group meeting during the SMT annual meeting in Denver, CO, on Friday, November 10, 2023, at 7:30 PM. For these work-in-progress talks, we are seeking presentations on ongoing projects about music in film and multimedia. If you…[Read more]

Call for Presentations
All Ears: Music and Sound in and Beyond Disney Theme Parks
University of Central Florida, June 20–21, 2024
https://www.themeparkmusicandsound.org/

When Walt Disney created Disneyland, his ambition was to revolutionise the amusement park as a form of entertainment. His design philosophy of the theme park was one of a m…[Read more]

One 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]

Hello again!

This serves as a reminder that the AMS Music and Media Study Group and the SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group will host a Virtual Movie Discussion Hangout for Friday, August 11, 2023, at 8:00 PM EDT.

We are preparing to discuss the Director’s Cut of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (written and directed by Steven Spielberg, s…[Read more]

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]

Greetings!

The AMS Music and Media Study Group and the SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group are organizing a Virtual Movie Discussion Hangout for Friday, August 11, 2023, at 8:00 PM EDT. Our plan with this event is to discuss a movie and its music in a casual, informal setting.

For our first attempt at this endeavor, we are preparing to d…[Read more]

Hi, FMIGers. Aaron Donaldson is a communications lecturer at Cal Poly Humboldt, a big fan of music and movies (among many other things), and an avid podcaster (https://player.fm/podcasts/aaron-donaldson). I’ve been a guest on a couple of his episodes, and he’s been a lot of fun to collaborate with. No renumeration, but I’ve liked including my…[Read more]