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.

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]