📣 Open Access ahead-of-print content from The Journal of Beatles Studies: new reviews and a poetic look at Beatles history.
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@paullongmedia.bsky.social @smallmegapixel.bsky.social @ppbkwriter.com @bigbeatlessortout.bsky.social @iaspm-us.bsky.social @thenacbs.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
📣 Open Access ahead-of-print content from The Journal of Beatles Studies: new reviews and a poetic look at Beatles history.
👉 bit.ly/JBS-Ahead-of-Print
@paullongmedia.bsky.social @smallmegapixel.bsky.social @ppbkwriter.com @bigbeatlessortout.bsky.social @iaspm-us.bsky.social @thenacbs.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/JBS-Ahead-of-Print
@paullongmedia.bsky.social @smallmegapixel.bsky.social @ppbkwriter.com @bigbeatlessortout.bsky.social @iaspm-us.bsky.social @thenacbs.bsky.social
The Executive Committee of IASPM UKI express deep concern over the University of Nottingham’s recent decision to suspend recruitment to all undergraduate programmes in music, risking permanent closure of all music degrees at the University.
Read the full statement: iaspm.org.uk/statement-on...
Read the full statement: iaspm.org.uk/statement-on...
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Executive Committee of IASPM UKI express deep concern over the University of Nottingham’s recent decision to suspend recruitment to all undergraduate programmes in music, risking permanent closure of all music degrees at the University.
Read the full statement: iaspm.org.uk/statement-on...
Read the full statement: iaspm.org.uk/statement-on...
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the next biennial conference of the UK and Ireland branch of IASPM.
Music at the edges: Peripherality in the practices of popular music
University of Aberdeen, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2026
Full CFP: iaspm.org.uk/music-at-the...
Deadline: 02 Feb 2026
Music at the edges: Peripherality in the practices of popular music
University of Aberdeen, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2026
Full CFP: iaspm.org.uk/music-at-the...
Deadline: 02 Feb 2026
December 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the next biennial conference of the UK and Ireland branch of IASPM.
Music at the edges: Peripherality in the practices of popular music
University of Aberdeen, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2026
Full CFP: iaspm.org.uk/music-at-the...
Deadline: 02 Feb 2026
Music at the edges: Peripherality in the practices of popular music
University of Aberdeen, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2026
Full CFP: iaspm.org.uk/music-at-the...
Deadline: 02 Feb 2026
anyone know when we are going to get the IASPM-US program? This girl has Amtrak tix to buy while they're still cheap...
December 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
anyone know when we are going to get the IASPM-US program? This girl has Amtrak tix to buy while they're still cheap...
Ugh thought I was going to be able to remain blissfully unaware of what Geese actually sound like but I may have to say something about them in my IASPM-US paper :(
December 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Ugh thought I was going to be able to remain blissfully unaware of what Geese actually sound like but I may have to say something about them in my IASPM-US paper :(
Thanks for the shout-out to @iaspm-us.bsky.social's "Journal of Popular Music Studies." latinamericanpost.com/life/enterta...
The Day Dominican Republic Bachata Royals Conquered New York With A Secret Album
At Madison Square Garden, Romeo Santos and Prince Royce unveiled their long-rumored joint album to a packed, screaming crowd, turning a secret seven-year project into a Dominican American block party ...
latinamericanpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Thanks for the shout-out to @iaspm-us.bsky.social's "Journal of Popular Music Studies." latinamericanpost.com/life/enterta...
You're gonna wanna tune in to Popular Music Books in Process tomorrow at 530e because Chris Dalla Riva and Caileigh Nerney are gonna talk about Dalla Riva's new book, Uncharted Territory, and the graphs Nerney designed for it.
Schedule link: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
Schedule link: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
You're gonna wanna tune in to Popular Music Books in Process tomorrow at 530e because Chris Dalla Riva and Caileigh Nerney are gonna talk about Dalla Riva's new book, Uncharted Territory, and the graphs Nerney designed for it.
Schedule link: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
Schedule link: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
Wed Nov 19, 5:30 pm ET, the Popular Music Books online series features Allison Bumstead on teen fan mags' role in early rock journalism & politics, plus Peter Richardson on how Bay Area activism fed into the advent of Rolling Stone. To join us, see here: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Wed Nov 19, 5:30 pm ET, the Popular Music Books online series features Allison Bumstead on teen fan mags' role in early rock journalism & politics, plus Peter Richardson on how Bay Area activism fed into the advent of Rolling Stone. To join us, see here: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
It's gotten reviews in a bunch of places, including the Bangkok Post and other journalistic outlets. Just yesterday it received its first academic book review (from Perfect Beat). Upcoming talks related to it at Northern Illinois next week, IASPM in February, and UC-Berkeley in April.
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It's gotten reviews in a bunch of places, including the Bangkok Post and other journalistic outlets. Just yesterday it received its first academic book review (from Perfect Beat). Upcoming talks related to it at Northern Illinois next week, IASPM in February, and UC-Berkeley in April.
Likewise Simon 🙏
There was a talk at last year's IASPM popular music studies conference about the lack of digitized Australian equivalents to RIU. It's great that NZ has this amazing music history resource.
There was a talk at last year's IASPM popular music studies conference about the lack of digitized Australian equivalents to RIU. It's great that NZ has this amazing music history resource.
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Likewise Simon 🙏
There was a talk at last year's IASPM popular music studies conference about the lack of digitized Australian equivalents to RIU. It's great that NZ has this amazing music history resource.
There was a talk at last year's IASPM popular music studies conference about the lack of digitized Australian equivalents to RIU. It's great that NZ has this amazing music history resource.
See you at Iaspm?
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
See you at Iaspm?
Enjoy limited-time free access to the current issues of UC Press music journals during #AMS2025, including JAMS, JM, @iaspm-us.bsky.social's JPMS, @sssmg.bsky.social's JSMG, MP, NCM, and RES, www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/f...
Free Content from UC Press Journals during the 2025 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting
Enjoy limited-time free access to current issues of UC Press's music journals during the joint American Musicological Society-Society for Music Theory Annual Conference.
www.ucpress.edu
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Enjoy limited-time free access to the current issues of UC Press music journals during #AMS2025, including JAMS, JM, @iaspm-us.bsky.social's JPMS, @sssmg.bsky.social's JSMG, MP, NCM, and RES, www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/f...
I’d love this. Especially because IASPM-US annual meeting is the same time as Music Library Association’s (MLA) and I cannot be two places at once (I’d do New England even though I’m in New York)
November 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I’d love this. Especially because IASPM-US annual meeting is the same time as Music Library Association’s (MLA) and I cannot be two places at once (I’d do New England even though I’m in New York)
I know IASPM-US doesn't traditionally have regional meetings but I feel like there are enough of us in New England to make maybe like a summer workshop viable? Like take a day trip, workshop your draft, don't spend too much time or money, etc...
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I know IASPM-US doesn't traditionally have regional meetings but I feel like there are enough of us in New England to make maybe like a summer workshop viable? Like take a day trip, workshop your draft, don't spend too much time or money, etc...
LIVING THROUGH HISTORY: Wed Nov 5, 5:30 pm ET in the Popular Music Books series, blues harpist Jerry Portnoy (Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton) & label exec Dan Beck (Michael Jackson) discuss their new memoirs w/ Lauren Onkey (GWU, NPR). Come! Bring your questions! iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
LIVING THROUGH HISTORY: Wed Nov 5, 5:30 pm ET in the Popular Music Books series, blues harpist Jerry Portnoy (Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton) & label exec Dan Beck (Michael Jackson) discuss their new memoirs w/ Lauren Onkey (GWU, NPR). Come! Bring your questions! iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
I have never been able to listen to Pretty Hate Machine in the same way after Theo Cateforis pointed out the rapping during an IASPM Q&A.
October 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I have never been able to listen to Pretty Hate Machine in the same way after Theo Cateforis pointed out the rapping during an IASPM Q&A.
Check out today’s Popular Music Books in Process at 530e. Masha Salazkina and Usha Iyer will be talking to @erazlogo.bsky.social about their forthcoming book on Boney M's global reach. Contact @eweisbard.bsky.social for the Zoom link. Schedule link below.
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Check out today’s Popular Music Books in Process at 530e. Masha Salazkina and Usha Iyer will be talking to @erazlogo.bsky.social about their forthcoming book on Boney M's global reach. Contact @eweisbard.bsky.social for the Zoom link. Schedule link below.
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
Tomorrow (Wed), 5:30 pm, in the online Popular Music Books series: Masha Salazkina & Usha Iyer on "The Global Phenomenon of BONEY M," the group whose Eurodisco-Caribbean sound went worldwide in the 1970s-80s, except in the U.S.! To join the discussion: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
October 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Tomorrow (Wed), 5:30 pm, in the online Popular Music Books series: Masha Salazkina & Usha Iyer on "The Global Phenomenon of BONEY M," the group whose Eurodisco-Caribbean sound went worldwide in the 1970s-80s, except in the U.S.! To join the discussion: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
Recording Non-human Animals: Multispecies Music Memes as Popular Music - Pascal Rudolph and Martin Ullrich present at IASPM International Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle University
October 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Recording Non-human Animals: Multispecies Music Memes as Popular Music - Pascal Rudolph and Martin Ullrich present at IASPM International Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle University
Check out today’s Popular Music Books in Process at 530e. David Hesmondhalgh is talking about his new anthology, Music Streaming Around the World, with some of the volume's collaborators. Contact @eweisbard.bsky.social for the Zoom link. Schedule link below.
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
October 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Check out today’s Popular Music Books in Process at 530e. David Hesmondhalgh is talking about his new anthology, Music Streaming Around the World, with some of the volume's collaborators. Contact @eweisbard.bsky.social for the Zoom link. Schedule link below.
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
"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...
Volume 37 Issue 3 | Journal of Popular Music Studies | University of California Press
online.ucpress.edu
September 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"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-...
Woody Guthrie and Greg Tate Awards
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
@iaspm-us.bsky.social invites nominations for the 2026 Woody Guthrie and Greg Tate Book Awards: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Guthrie-and-...
Last July with @gbienvenu.bsky.social we made a zine on Chinese (un)popular music for a party we organized during the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) conference in Paris ("Do You Like Chinese Music"). Here it is now on PDF:
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773
Zine “Do You Like Chinese Music” + Playlist
Last July, with my esteemed colleague and friend Grégoire Bienvenu, who wrote his PhD on Chinese hip-hop and host the fabulous podcast “Chine Yuefu” (in French), we decided to write a zine on Chinese ...
scream4life.hypotheses.org
September 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Last July with @gbienvenu.bsky.social we made a zine on Chinese (un)popular music for a party we organized during the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) conference in Paris ("Do You Like Chinese Music"). Here it is now on PDF:
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773
scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773
Abstracts for IASPM-US are due tomorrow!!!! Eeek!!!
September 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Abstracts for IASPM-US are due tomorrow!!!! Eeek!!!
Call for event funding!!!
September 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Call for event funding!!!