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]

Dear colleagues, please see our group’s CFP:

Call for Lighting Talks: “Russian and Soviet Music in Times of Military Aggression”

The Russian Music Theory Interest Group (SMT-Rus) is inviting proposals for its meeting at the 2023 AMS/SMT Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado (November 9–12) on the subject, “Russian and Soviet Music in Times of Milit…[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]

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]

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]

Dear SMT-Rus members, I am happpy to report that Sasha Drozzina has won the chair election! She got 14 votes out of 20. Thanks very much to all who voted and made sure that our group is healthily moving forward! Today, I will report to Aine Heneghan about the change of leadership in our IG.

All best,

-Ellen

Dear SMT-Rus members,

I am inviting you to participate in the election of a new chair, who will lead the group in 2023-25. Please click the link below and respond ONCE by Monday, December 5, 2022. The quorum for this will be 10 voters, and this is half of the last two years’ attendance average.

[LINK REMOVED AS ELECTION PERIOD HAS…[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]

IASPM-US is hosting the international IASPM conference next year at the University of Minneapolis — Twin Cities, June 26–30, 2023.  The CFP is due by November 18.

https://iaspm-us.wildapricot.<wbr />org/IASPM-International-2023

2022 SMT PMIG Schedule

Friday, Nov. 11, 12:30–2:00pm 

Chair: Matthew Ferrandino; Secretary: Emily Milius; Webmaster: Jacob Cupps 

12:30–35 – Intro/Welcome

12:35–1:35 – Presentations (details below)

1:35–1:50 – Q&A

1:50–1:55 – Trevor de Clercq, PMIG “Splinter Groups”

1:55–2:00 – AK and OP award recipients [Read more]