The IASPM Executive Committee from 2007 through to 2009 is:
  • Chair: Jan Fairley (UK)
    ...works as an independent researcher, writer, freelance journalist and occasional lecturer from her home in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is a board member of Popular Music Journal (CUP) and a honorary fellow at the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool, UK. She has been a member of IASPM since 1983. Personal website: janfairley.com

  • General Secretary: Helmi Järviluoma Mäkelä (Finland)
    ...is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research includes Soundscapes and Gender Studies and she is a founding member of the Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology.

  • Membership Secretary/Treasurer: Violeta Mayer (UK/Chile)
    ...grew up in her home country Chile. She read for her BA in Classical and Popular Music Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK where she recently completed her PhD.

  • Web/Publications: Carlo Nardi (Italy/UK/Germany)
    ...is a Lecturer in popular music at the universities of Trento (Italy) and Northampton (UK) and teaches a seminar in music and technology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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  • Member at Large: Héctor Fouce (Spain)
    ...is a longstanding Spanish music journalist. He teaches Communications and Semiotics in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Popular Music in the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He is one of the editors of the forthcoming IASPM Journal. Personal website: fouce.net

  • Co-opted member: Michael Drewett (South Africa)
    ...previous IASPM treasurer/membership secretary, is organiser of the 2011 IASPM 30th anniversary Conference in Grahamstown, South Africa.


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