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The official Bluesky account for the US branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music
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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!

Come hear @kategalloway.bsky.social and @pch9857.bsky.social talk about T-Swift!!! iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

A good conference leaves you physically exhausted and intellectually energized; @iaspm-us.bsky.social consistently achieves this. What a great few days in Philly connecting and reconnecting with folks!

Did you miss the Thursday Plenary in Philly? It's being rebroadcast! Check it out if you're a fan of neo soul

Looking forward to seeing yall in Philly today!!!!!!

Heads up! Early Registration for the annual meeting in Philly ends today! Come sign up and hang! iaspm-us.wildapricot.org

Also, if you want to come hang out and study popular music in April in Philly: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/2024-Confere...

If you are presenting in Philly, check your email 👀👀👀

Conference Decisions are coming out today! Register for the conference here (open now!): iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/2024-Confere...

Very excited to talk environmental dissonances w/ Alexis Bennett tomorrow (Tuesday) 5pm ET / 10pm GMT in the Popular Music Books series hosted by @iaspm-us.bsky.social. Info here: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

New JMPS!!! online.ucpress.edu/jpms

Come out (virtually) on Thursday!

Our special issue of Journal of Popular Music Studies is out and *free* online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3... @iaspm-us.bsky.social

Just a reminder of upcoming proposal deadline. For those working in popular music studies. The theme explores the communal aspects of popular music. CFP: @iaspm-us.bsky.social 2024 Hope to see you in April in Philadelphia! iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/2024-Confere...

Friendly (or perhaps harrowing) reminder: IASPM proposals are due on the 20th!

Happening Tomorrow! Popular Music Books in Process Series Tuesday, November 7, 5pm ET Will Hermes in conversation with Gustavus Stadler That’s The Story of My Life? Building a Biography from the Lou Reed Archives. For more information and the Zoom link visit tinyurl.com/4x9rwczn

CFP ALERT! The US chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music announces our annual conference, April 11-14, 2024, hosted by Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. For the full CFP please visit: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org

Hey All! Welcome to the new official account for the US branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music!