A new popular music research project in Finland The Starnet. Changing Discourses of Popular Music Stardom. This research project deals with the relationship between the star phenomenon and popular music. The main questions of the project are: How is popular music stardom constructed at specific historical moments? What kind of meanings popular music stars incorporate? [...]

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IASPM-US 2008 Conference: Global Pop, Space and Place University of Iowa April 25-28, 2008 Iowa City, IA For many, popular music would, by definition, transcend any particular space, propelled by the technologies of mass media. Connecting every wired corner of the globe, today’s digital media technologies — from mp3s and p2ps to Myspace and YouTube [...]

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Call for Papers: 2008 Pop Conference at Experience Music Project Hi! Please forward this call to writers and musicians not part of IASPM: as a gathering dedicated to bringing together people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, we rely on your help. Email me if there are any questions. Many thanks, Eric Shake, Rattle: [...]

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The University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Critical and Comparative Studies in Music, from scholars with a disciplinary background in musicology or other relevant field. Specialty will include 19th-, 20th-, or 21st-century music. The successful applicant will join a department committed to studying music from a [...]

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I am writing to invite contributions to a collection of essays on music in relation to trauma. Essays in the collection will relate aspects of trauma to aspects of music in a range of ways. Trauma may be understood as individual or collective/social; as the result of particular traumatic events or as the “insidious trauma” [...]

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Sergio and I are pleased to announce a new group blog on (post) Soviet popular music: http://ps-popular-music.blogspot.com/ The blog is bilingual with posts both in Russian and English (or sometimes both – depending on the author). We define popular music in a broad sense, in other words anything from rock to pop.  Geographically we also [...]

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Call for Papers Popular Music Studies: Problems, Disputes, Questions, University of Glasgow, 12-14 September 2008. The biennial conference of the UK and Ireland branch of IASPM will be hosted by the Department of Music at the University of Glasgow between 12 and 14 September 2008. Conference Theme The aim of this conference is to address [...]

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TRANS  11 (2007)  is on-line now with a special issue devoted to African music, that includes articles by Simha Arom, Polo Vallejo, Nathalie Fernando, Ruth M. Stone, Willie Anku, Leonardo D’Amico, Michelle Kisliuk, Kofi Agawu, Andrew L. Kaye y Marcos Branda Lacerda. This issue is matched with  some studies about the African influence in popular [...]

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