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IASPM-US members present new research and ideas at our annual conference. Held in a different U.S. city each year, these meetings also feature small sightseeing tours, concerts, and other other activities from the host city.  University of Iowa Preliminary
Program (PDF - updated 4/22/08) Conference
Registration Conference Activities Conference Accommodations & Travel Info Local Arrangements Committee Co-Chairs: Venise Berry (School of Journalism), Kembrew McLeod (Department of Communication Studies), T.M. Scruggs (Department of Music), Deborah Whaley (American Studies), and Don Mcleese (Journalism) University of Iowa. Future Meetings of IASPM-US 2009: San Diego, CA - Local Arrangements Chair: David Borgo, UC San Diego 2010: New Orleans, LA - Local Arrangements Chair: Connie Atkinson, University of New Orleans Past Meetings of IASPM-US Boundaries, Blockades, and Bridges: Annual
Conference 2007 Reconfiguring, Relocating, Rediscovering: Annual
Conference 2006 IASPM-US Annual Conference, 2005 IASPM-US
Annual Conference, 2004 Broadening
the Playlists: Annual Conference, 2003 IASPM-US
at 20: Annual Conference, 2002 IASPM-US:
Annual Conference, 2001 Musical
Intersections, 2000 Don't
Stop Till You Get Enough: Annual Conference, 1999 IASPM-US: Annual Conference, 1998 (Program
draft) IASPM-US: Annual Conference, 1997 Meetings of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Every two years the various chapters of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music gather somewhere in the world for a large conference. Find information regarding these meetings of the International Association here. Conference announcements from related academic groups are also available below. IASPM 2007 IASPM
2005 IASPM
2003 IASPM
2001 Related
Conference Annoucements CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University invites proposals for presentations in: “FARTHER ALONG”
A Conference on the Southern Gospel Convention-Singing Tradition Southern gospel convention singing is an amateur American musical tradition in which practitioners train at singing schools and gather at monthly and annual singings to sing and play from upright, or octavo, "new books" containing southern gospel songs in seven-shape notation. Historically it follows the four-shape tradition (Southern Harmony, Sacred Harp, etc.) and has been led primarily by publishers such as Ruebush-Kieffer, Anthony J. Showalter, James D. Vaughan, Stamps-Baxter, Hartford, and others. These publishers also sponsored the largest and best-known singing schools from the 1870s through the early 1960s. Emphasizing new songs in the gospel style, as opposed to the four-shape tradition's more conservative bent, the southern gospel convention tradition also embraces the use of instruments, most particularly piano, to accompany the singers. In addition, this amateur tradition and the publishing and educational industry that accompanies it have been the fertile ground from which has come many well-known songs, and from which has emerged the world of professional southern gospel. Southern gospel convention singing, in turn, is part of a broader musical phenomenon stemming from the Protestant Reformation and Americans' responses to it: the recreational and congregational group singing of sacred music. This phenomenon has played a central role in the history of Protestant music-making in the United States of America, from the unison and heterophonic psalm-singing of the colonial era through the part-music of the nineteenth century to the unison and homophonic choruses of modern praise-and-worship music. After almost a century of scholarship devoted to this broader musical phenomenon, the southern gospel convention-singing tradition remains little understood by the larger scholarly community--an anomaly, given its popularity. "Farther Along": A Conference on the Southern Gospel Convention-Singing Tradition is intended to help address this oversight. We expect the conference to include sessions devoted to:
We encourage proposals for papers and presentations on all aspects of the convention-singing tradition and related activities. Topics may include, but are not limited to, studies of:
Proposals should include an abstract of 250-300 words and an indication of audio-visual needs. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged, but hardcopy submissions will be accepted. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, 2007 Submit proposals to: Those who do not wish to submit proposals but who want to keep abreast of conference news may join the conference mailing list by sending contact information to Kym Stricklin.
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