IASPM-USA is the United States Chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM).
IASPM was started in 1981 on the initiative of musicians, music teachers, researchers and journalists present at the first international conference on popular music in Amsterdam.
IASPM is an international organization, an inter-professional and inter-disciplinary group.
CALL FOR PAPERS
IASPM-US at 20: Annual Conference, 2002
Celebrating the Roots and Fruits of Popular Music Studies
(In association with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum)
October 10-13, 2002 Cleveland, Ohio
Since the establishment of the U.S. Chapter of IASPM twenty years ago, the field of Popular Music Studies has emerged from obscurity to a
prominent place in the spectrum of cross-disciplinary approaches to popular culture. The numerous books and articles published by scholars
in Popular Music Studies attest to the diversity and substance of the field. At the same time, while Popular Music Studies has gained
credibility, programs and positions in the field have yet to be created in American higher education, despite the fact that courses on popular
music have come to be expected at many colleges and universities. This occasion provides us an opportunity to examine how we have arrived
at this point and what issues confront us as we begin the third decade of IASPM-US. The fact that the meeting is in Cleveland affords an
opportunity to visit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and to consider how a form of culture once thought offensive has now been mainstreamed,
institutionalized and corporatized.
Papers are welcomed on any subject related to the field of Popular Music Studies. The retrospective nature of this occasion does not,
however, require that presentations dwell upon the past, nor does the locale demand a focus on rock’n’roll. We heartily welcome
presentations that speak to music and matters of the moment, let alone those that look ahead to the future. Abstracts are due by May 15,
2002. E-mail submissions preferred.
Please send abstracts to Program Chair: Barbara Ching at: baching@memphis.edu
or if necessary, via snail mail c/o Department of English, 467 Patterson, The University of Memphis, Memphis TN 38152.
Conference participants are expected be current members of the Association.
Call for Submissions
Journal of Popular Music Studies
President: Paul Fischer
Department of Recording Industry
MTSU Box 21
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Pfischer@frank.mtsu.edu
Past President: David Brackett
Dept. of Music
SUNY Binghamton
Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
USA
dbrack@binghamton.edu
Vice President: René T. A. Lysloff
Department of Music (Program in Ethnomusicology)
University of California-Riverside
Riverside, CA 92506
Telephone: (909) 787-3606
lysloff@mail.ucr.edu
Secretary: Bernard Gendron
Treasurer: Gil Rodman
Publications Officer, Journal: Jeff Melnick
Publications Officer, Newsletter: Theo Cateforis
Charles Hamm: Honorary
Portia Maultsby: Honorary
Norma Coates: Student
Kai Fikentscher: Open
Reebee Garofalo: Open