Congratulations and welcome to our new PMIG leadership!

Chair: Matt Ferrandino

Secretary Emily Milius

Webmaster: Jacob Cupps

Please click here to vote for new PMIG officers!

Voting will close at 5:00 pm EST on Thursday, Dec. 9.

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 ferr1407@fredonia.edu. Nominations will close at 5:00 pm EST on Dec. 1, 2021.

CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting…[Read more]

The Adam Krims Awards was established in 2013 to give a junior scholar recognition for an outstanding publication. This year’s Adam Krims award goes to Edwin K. C. Li for his article “Cantopop and Speech-Melody Complex,” AND to Anabel Maler & Robert Komaniecki for their article “Rhythmic Techniques in Deaf Hip Hop.” Li investigates native Ca…[Read more]

Please join us for our PMIG SMT Virtual Reception! We’ll be in Room 1 on Saturday, Nov. 6 from 6:00 – 7:30 pm EST!

Please join us for our 2021 virtual SMT meeting! We’ll meet on Friday, November 5 from 9:30 – 10:45 EST to discuss Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On at 50, with invited speaker Andy Flory! To register for the conference, please visit the SMT website.

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Proposals for the upcoming conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music–US Chapter. Find attached the full Call for Proposals and an abbreviated version (under 250 words).

Please send any questions to Andrés R. Amado, Program Chair, iaspmus.conference@gmail.com

Call For Proposals

IASPM-US 2022 Conference: Grooves and Movements

May 26-May 28, 2022

Ann Arbor/Detroit Michigan

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music-United States chapter (IASPM-US) invites proposals for its annual conference, which will take place in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan on May 26-28, 2022. We…[Read more]

Join us for the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS)! To be held online on November 11-12 and 20-21, the AMS Annual Meeting features four full days of presentations, performances, workshops and networking events. Students are welcome. Explore the conference program and register now.

Become an AMS member to save up to…[Read more]

Good news – our Revenue module has had an update and is now current through July ’21. Which hitmakers saw a boost in sales during quarantine? Find out now! http://revenue.musicid.academicrightspress.com/index.htm

The mathematician who manages Revenue and Impact, Steve Hawtin, typically updates the module 2-4 times a year, but for obvious reasons,…[Read more]

SMT 2021:
Call for Participants in a Panel Discussion hosted by the Society for Music Theory’s Popular Music Interest Group
 

Panel Discussion: Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On at 502021 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On (1971), an album that was recently awarded the number one spot on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greates…[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 publica…[Read more]

SMT Jacksonville 2021:
Call for Participants in a Panel Discussion hosted by the Society for Music Theory’s Popular Music Interest Group
Panel Discussion: Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On at 50

2021 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On (1971), an album that was recently awarded the number one spot on Rolling Stone’s “…[Read more]

MusicID Digital Research Fellowship 2021
Call for Proposals
Deadline: August 1, 2021
MusicID is pleased to announce its fourth annual Digital Research Fellowship in popular music studies.

MusicID is an academic platform that compiles current and historical music industry data in a single, easy-to-use source. MusicID Data gives researchers direct…[Read more]

Colleague Craig Hamilton, who moderated our recent panel at the 2021 MEIEA Summit, will be doing a presentation this Friday at 12 ET for the summer MEIEA Meet! The event is free for MEIEA members. Please join us for a great chance to learn some key concepts of data literacy and get an exclusive preview of his “Future is Now” module, which…[Read more]