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IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social · 16d

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Lauron J. Kehrer @lauronkehrer.bsky.social · 16d

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

Woody Guthrie and Greg Tate Awards

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Lauron J. Kehrer @lauronkehrer.bsky.social · Jul 4

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

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IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social · 24d

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

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IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social · 29d

Also, conference abstracts due on the 15th!!!

IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social · 29d

Call for event funding!!!

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 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

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IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social · Jul 27

Please send the following info to all 7! co-organizers if you would like to participate

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IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social · Jul 27

IASPM Popular Music Books in Process Call

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · Jul 23

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...

International Association for the Study of Popular Music - US Chapter - PMBiP 2025-2026

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · Jul 4

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

Lauron J. Kehrer @lauronkehrer.bsky.social · Jul 4

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

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · Jun 23

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.

Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social · Jun 23

📣 New SPECIAL ISSUE of Journal of Popular Music Studies on MUSIC, DIGITALIZATION & IP IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH! Articles by Geoff Baker, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Pablo Infante-Amate, Aditi Deo, Oliver Bown and me, w/an intro by Born and me. Dig in! online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3...

Volume 37 Issue 2 | Journal of Popular Music Studies | University of California Press

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · Jun 20

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.

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IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social · Jun 19

JPMS needs some editors!!!!

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · Jun 17

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. 🎶

Popular Music Books in Process series, 2025-2026 Call for Proposals

Since 2020, the Popular Music Books in Process series has held online events for music writers and scholars to showcase recent books or works in progress for an engaged audience. The series is a collaboration between the Journal of Popular Music Studies, the Pop Conference, and IASPM-US. There have been more than 140 Zoom events so far, almost all preserved on YouTube. We generally run biweekly from fall through spring.

We look forward to another round of presentations. If you are publishing a book in the next year, or have ongoing work to showcase, please let us know. All kinds of formats are welcome, from readings and dialogues to roundtables, always including a generous Q&A. Some authors have even incorporated live music. We ask you to make your event conversational on some level and avoid longer solo presentations. If you need ideas for interlocutors or co-presenters, we can suggest some. Our YouTube page shows the variety of strategies presenters have used. We may group authors with kindred approaches, too.

Whatever the format, our focus remains books, whether early in gestation or after publication. We want to showcase popular music writing of many kinds, keeping our communities connected, and welcoming in new participants. Presenters are asked to do their best to attend several other sessions through the season.

Please feel free to share this call with others you think might want to join in.

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IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social · May 22

DMs now open!

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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

Woman and Music volume 31 (2027)
Global Queer/Trans Nightlives
Proposals due Monday, June 2!

Call for papers, which may address (though not limited to) the following topics: interviews with drag artists, DJs, and performers; globalization and transnationalism; new methods; modes of exclusion; and diaspora. Guest editors are Paul David Flood, Alejandrina M. Medina, and Christina Misaki Nikitin.

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IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social · May 20

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

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · May 20

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...

Benjamin Tausig w/ Elliott Powell & Kanjana‬‭ Thepboriruk, Bangkok After Dark, PMBiP 5/13/25

YouTube video by Eric Weisbard

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Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social · Apr 24

“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

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · May 9

"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

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Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · Apr 18

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.
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Popular Music Books in Process Series

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IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social · Apr 8

Yerrrr!!!

Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · Apr 8

Alisha Lola-Jones (co-editor), Matt Jones (managing ed), and I are in many ways still transitioning into the role -- these wonderful articles are all the editorial responsibility of the ancien regime @ehphd.bsky.social @ericdharvey.com @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social -- credit to them.

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IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social · Mar 11

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!!!

Poster for the upcoming IASPM conference

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IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social · Feb 20