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WHO We ARE

  • IASPM-US is an interdisciplinary and inter-professional organization that represents the United States branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. 
  • Through its annual meetings, its quarterly publication The Journal of Popular Music Studies, and its website, IASPM-US promotes a range of scholarly and other approaches to the study of popular music.
  • The US branch of IASPM holds true to the goals of our parent organization in the belief that popular music has much to teach us about this world. We place an emphasis on the writings and other activities of US-based scholars, journalists, and musicians–focusing not only on American music but also on music from across the globe, and “Music 2.0” made and consumed in virtual soundscapes.


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For a professional organization, we are unique for our inter-disciplinary scope–spanning fields such as musicology, sociology, cultural anthropology, literary studies, cultural studies, American studies, and so on. The democratic, inclusive outlook of IASPM-US extends not only across different academic disciplines but also to the inter-professional level. In other words, we seek the contributions and expertise of popular music critics, journalists, industry workers, and cultural administrators in addition to university academics. Click below for information on becoming an IASPM-US member.

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 ANNOUNCEMENTS

CFP IASPM-US Annual Meeting 2024 - click below

IASPM-US 2024 CFP.pdf

Click here: Call for Woody Guthrie Award, 2024

Click here: Popular Music Books in Process Series

2023 GUTHRIE AND SANJEK PRIZE WINNERS

Click here to go to the Awards page: Awards



OFFICERS

  • President:
    Kwame Harrison (2023 - 2025),  anharri5@vt.edu
  • Vice-President:                            
  • Lauron Kehrer (2023 - 2025), lauron.kehrer@gmail.com
  • Secretary: Stephanie Vander Wel (2022 - 2024),              slv5@buffalo.edu
  • Treasurer:  Zack Stiegler (2022 - 2024),                         
  • stiegler@iup.edu
  • Past President:                              Norma Coates (2023 - 2025)


2022 - 23 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

  • Journal Editors:
    Elliot H. Powell and K.E. Goldschmitt
  • Open Seats:
    Elizabeth Wollman, Richard Davila, Paula Harper, Michelle Cho, Justin Patch, Emily Gale, Amy Coddington
  • Student Seats:
    Emmalouise St. Amand, Paul David Flood
  • Honorary Board Member:
    Reebee Garofalo

Inclusion Statement

IASPM-US recognizes that the past and present of popular music are inseparable from the systems of racial, ethnic, class, gender, and dis/ability inequity in which they are embedded. The society is committed to the exposure and dismantling of such injustice through the facilitation of extended academic and public conversation and the removal of barriers to participation.

IASPM-US is dedicated to providing a safe, inclusive, and accessible space for all its members and all who participate in activities or engage in dialogue under its name. The society continues to foster interdisciplinary conversation regarding how and why popular music matters, and continues to work toward becoming a more inclusive organization. We strive to provide a meeting point for academic and non-academic students of music. We welcome academic music scholars across all fields, affiliated and independent, tenured and non-tenure-track, as well as music journalists and other writers, industry workers, administrators, and musicians. We invite presenters and audiences to a space that supports the study of popular music as a site of decolonization, of resistance to racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, heteronormative and cisnormative power structures, ableism, and violence.

The society aims, but might not always succeed, to meet its members’ needs at its annual conference through:

  • membership and registration fees on a sliding scale
  • fee waivers and/or travel support for presenters in financial need
  • if possible and in keeping with host university policies, making on-site child care options available (note that many universities will not permit organizations to provide this service)
  • reserving a quiet, calm space at the conference venue, away from noise and crowds
  • ensuring that venues are accessible to those with mobility aids
  • providing transportation to conference events away from the primary conference venue
  • the provision of ASL interpreters when requested
  • the circulation of accessibility guidelines to presenters, moderators, and attendees

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