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:

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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]

Hi all!

I’m writing with our interest group meeting agenda. This meeting will include a recruitment call for a Chair (or Co-Chairs!) to serve for Jan. 2024 – Jan. 2026 followed by three 10-minute lightning talks with discussion periods between each talk.We will offer a hybrid option for those not attending the conference in person:

This is the…[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]

At the end of the 2023 SMT meeting in Denver, Danny Jenkins’s two-year term as Co-Chair of SMT’s Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Group (AADIG) will come to a close. The election for a new Co-Chair is now open. Voting will continue through Monday, November 6, 2023 (12:00 p.m. EDT).
As per our by-laws, the election will commence one mon…[Read more]

Dear AADIG members,At the end of the 2023 SMT meeting in Denver, Danny Jenkins’s two-year term as Co-Chair of SMT’s Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Group (AADIG) will come to a close. We are writing to announce the call for nominations for a new Co-Chair. As per our by-laws, the election will commence one month before SMT and will be e…[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]