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Wed Apr 22 in the Popular Music Books online series, we're honored to host the great trumpeter-composer Wadada Leo Smith discussing his musical philosophy w/ his co-author & the designer of his book in progress, Nina Sun Eidsheim & Juliette Bellocq. Join us! iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

JPMS is free this weekend!

Word on the street is a new JPMS just dropped

Since it's on the @iaspm-us.bsky.social website, I'll make it official: I'm proud to announce that my first book, Extending Play, received honorable mention for the 2026 Woody Guthrie Award. Thanks, IASPM! And congrats to Matthew Morrison and David Suisman. iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Guthrie-and-...

Y'all are gonna wanna tune in to PMBIP tomorrow at 530pE for a virtuosic vocal run of a conversation between Amani Roberts, Brandon Tensley, and Emily Lordi about quiet storm and Whitney Houston. What else could you do but be there with us? Schedule link: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

This week in the Popular Music Books online series, it's "Cowpunks and Country Labor" with Jonathan Bernstein on his new book on Justin Townes Earle and Robert Morast previewing his novel in progress, COWPUNK. Wed, 5:30 pm ET on Zoom, see here to join: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

Thanks for the shout-out to @iaspm-us.bsky.social's "Journal of Popular Music Studies." latinamericanpost.com/life/enterta...

In case you missed it, here's last night's PMBIP conversation between Chris Dalla Riva and graphic designer Caileigh Nerney about turning using pop charts data to understand popular culture and how to best visualize that data www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdN...

Cool looking CFP posted by Varun. Varun is so cool, smart, handsome, and funny and definitely doesn't run this account

"Journal of Popular Music Studies" co-editors @burrata.bsky.social & Alisha Lola Jones's reflect on their 1st year editing "JPMS" in the Sept issue online now. We pub JPMS in partnership with @iaspm-us.bsky.social. online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3...

@iaspm-us.bsky.social invites nominations for the 2026 Woody Guthrie and Greg Tate Book Awards: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Guthrie-and-...

CFP: @iaspm-us.bsky.social 2026 Conference Popular Music and the State iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/2026-confere...

Abstracts for IASPM-US are due tomorrow!!!! Eeek!!!

Call for event funding!!!

📣 Most read in The Journal of Beatles Studies ‘Echoes of the Beatles in Hamburg: The telling of the origin story’, by Hans Olof Gottfridsson. Read this article #OpenAccess: bit.ly/Beatles-Echoes @paullongmedia.bsky.social @smallmegapixel.bsky.social @ppbkwriter.com @iaspm-us.bsky.social #TheBeatles

Quick reminder that if you want to be part of our music book series, there is about a week to send in a proposal. Go for it! iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Calls-and-An...

Pop music scholars, are you up for the down stroke? Then apply to @iaspm-us.bsky.social’s DC conference for next spring.

This issue is a big deal. First, it’s guest-edited by Georgina Born and @anthroposound.bsky.social , two of the best of their respective generations of musical anthropologists. Second, the contributor lineup is outstanding.

JPMS is under the @iaspm-us.bsky.social umbrella. The crew is great, and these positions are light on labor, while being solid service opportunities. Would love to have you come work with us.

JPMS needs some editors!!!!

For anyone writing a book about music, you might find this invitation to present of interest! I participated in the @iaspm-us.bsky.social "Popular Music Books in Process Series" a couple of years ago, and it was a wonderful experience. 🎶

Announcing the CFP for our forthcoming special issue of Women and Music on Global Queer/Trans Nightlives! Delighted to be guest editing this special issue with my dear friends and colleagues @alejandrinammedina.bsky.social and Christina Misaki Nikitin. Proposals due June 2! CFP here: bit.ly/WAMCFP

FYI: If you would like me to post/share/bump something, please tag me in the post or dm me!

A recording of my @iaspm-us.bsky.social Popular Music Books talk with Kanjana Thepboriruk and @ehphd.bsky.social is now up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-uV...

“Queer Arrangements...represents LGBTQ+ scholarship at it’s finest...This book offers a beautifully written musical biography of an out, black, queer musician and a titan of jazz. It is a gift to multiple disciplines and must-read for pop music scholars.” — @iaspm-us.bsky.social

"Bangkok After Dark" virtual book talk next Tuesday! Part of the @iaspm-us.bsky.social Popular Music Books in Process Series May 13, 5pm ET, in conversation with Elliott Powell @ehphd.bsky.social and Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk DM me for the zoom link if you'd like to join

Tue Apr 22, 5 pm ET, in the Popular Music Books series: @askjerseth.bsky.social on tech and cultural "presets" shaping meaning thru radio, samplers, Auto-Tune, vocaloids, Instagram, AI etc. w/ Catherine Provenzano. In memory of @jonathansterne.bsky.social. iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

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Looking forward to seeing you all soon!!!

Exciting CFP

📢 The Journal of Beatles Studies seeks Editorial Board members! Scholars worldwide are invited to apply. Find out more at: bit.ly/JBS-Call-for-... @livuninews.bsky.social @iaspm-us.bsky.social @bigbeatlessortout.bsky.social @thenacbs.bsky.social @jbritishstudies.bsky.social #BeatlesStudies

🚨OPPORTUNITY: The IASPM Journal is seeking an Editor in Chief and two Assistant Editors (one paid position) beginning in October 2025. For more information and to apply, visit iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IA...

Tune in later today for a book talk with IASPM-US!

Hey all! IASPM-US is looking for President, Vice President, one position on the executive board and one student rep! For details on the position or to submit nominations please email to Bekka Farrugia ([email protected])! Nominations are due on the 27th of January!

Check out tomorrow’s Popular Music Books in Process with S.H. Fernando and Shawn Setaro on Fernando's Chronicles of DOOM. It’s our first 2025 PMBIP event and just remember: ALL CAPS when you spell the man name. Join us at 5p ET on Zoom. For more info: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

Word on the street is the popular music books online series returns thursday Jan 7th at 5 pm et

Check out tomorrow’s Popular Music Books in Process chat between @stephendeusner.bsky.social and Steacy Easton about their new 33 1/3s on Garth Brooks in … The Life of Chris Gaines and Dolly Parton’s White Limozeen. Join us at 5:30 ET on Zoom. For more info: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

wake up babe, new JPMS just dropped!!!

Wow! This list is now full at 150 music educators. Here are the most recent updates, let me know if you want to be removed. I will start a new one if there is continued interest. #musiced @lilcar88.bsky.social @itsamia.bsky.social @editorteach.bsky.social go.bsky.app/Ad8r7nW

Deadline extended to the 22nd!!!

Today is the deadline to submit for next year's joint Pop Con/ @iaspm-us.bsky.social experience (USC from 3/13-3/16)! Category is: STYLE. My book club submitted a roundtable proposal on memoir aesthetics. If you're a pop music scholar, journalist, critic, or maker, join us! www.popconference.org

LA! FASHION! POPULAR MUSIC!

Also, please feel free to dm me with any cfps, publications, job listings, cat photos, or soup recipes that you think would like to get out!

Next year's PopCon/IASPM (@iaspm-us.bsky.social) is a joint conference! Happening at USC, March 13-16, 2025. Proposal deadline is November 15. If you work on popular music in any form, no matter where you work or are in your career, come do it! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Very glad to call @iaspm-us.bsky.social one of my intellectual homes, and sad that my term of the Exec Committee will come to an end in March. IASPM-US conferences are full of good vibes all around, and exceptionally welcoming to grad students. Come join us in LA!

Seconding Varun, who is a dashing, brilliant, and generous scholar (who definitely doesn't run this account). If you care about JCs fashion or any other intersection of music and fashion (or any other analysis of pop music culture), abstracts for our conference are due on the 15th!!!

FYI, the next Popular Music Books in Process event with be on 11/19 at 5:30p (ET). Brian Kane and Daphne Brooks are going to talk about Kane's new book, Hearing Double: Jazz, Ontology, Auditory Culture. Join us!