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

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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!

Hi to the music writers Benjamin Taussig connected me to earlier today. But I almost only post on Facebook. Remember: Popular Music Books in Process series details live here iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi... and the joint IASPM-US & PopCon call is here: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/CFP

Check out tomorrow’s Popular Music Books in Process chat between @FranzNicolay and @Steven_Hyden about Franz’s new book, Band People. He's in the Hold Steady, you know? Join us at 5:30 ET over Zoom and ask him about his book playlist. For more info: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Music-…

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The @iaspm-us.bsky.social Popular Music Books in Process talk series looks lovely this year. I’ll be doing one on May 13 with @ehphd.bsky.social and Kanjana Thepboriruk, two scholars I admire a ton. But check out all the stuff there: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

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Very excited to talk with Christa Bentley & Paula Harper about our forthcoming collection Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans w/ Nate Sloan Monday May 6 @ 5pm ET in the Popular Music Books In Progress series hosted by @iaspm-us.bsky.social. Info here: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

JPMS is looking for new editors! Email Anthony Kwame Harrison at [email protected] if you have any questions!