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The International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) is an international organization established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music. Founded in 1981, IASPM has grown into an international network of more that 700 members worldwide. On national and international levels, the organization’s activities include conferences, publications, and research projects designed to advance an understanding of popular music and the processes involved in its production and consumption. To build a large and diverse body of knowledge of popular music, IASPM is an organization which is both interprofessional and interdisciplinary. It welcomes as members anyone involved with popular music. To preserve its autonomy, the association remains independent of all commercial and governmental interests.
As popular music is as much a local as a global phenomena, IASPM has emphasized since its very beginning an international perspective for research.
Every two years, the Executive Committee invites the members to reflect on their plans and the results of academic and journalistic projects at an international conference.
Between conferences, the international IASPM mailing list keeps members in touch.
In 2002 the Institute of Popular Music (IPM), of the School of Music, University of Liverpool became the official office of IASPM. The IPM now acts as the sole central repository for all IASPM archival materials, and is responsible for co-ordinating the preservation and continued maintenance of these important resources. The mailing address for hard copy documents is:
Dr. Marion Leonard
Institute of Popular Music
University of Liverpool
80-82 Bedford Street South
Liverpool
L69 7WW
UK
In addition to this website, these IASPM branches provide information on their own websites:
The IASPM Executive Committee from 2011 through to 2013 is:
Chair: Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa (UK)
…is Professor of Musicology at Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and Researcher of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq). At the moment she is a Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London, where she is organizing her research data into a book on early Brazilian recordings of Lundu.
General Secretary: Carlo Nardi (Italy/South Africa)
…is visiting lecturer in Sociology at Rhodes University.
Treasurer: Violeta Mayer (UK/Chile)
…grew up in her home country Chile and moved to Liverpool in 2002 after a short stay in the USA. She read for her BA in Classical and Popular Music Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK where she recently completed her PhD on the musical practices in Chile during the military dictatorship (1973-1990). At present, she works as a financial auditor whilst she completes her chartered accountant training.
Membership Secretary: Laura Francisca Jordán González (Canada/Chile)
…is a Chilean Musicologist, having obtained her MA in Montréal in 2010. She currently resides in Canada where she is pursuing her PhD studies at Université Laval. Her areas of research include popular music in Latin America, especially music in exile, the relation between music and politics, and the role of voice in popular music.
Web/Publications: Ed Montano (Australia-New Zealand)
…is a lecturer in Music Industry at RMIT University, Melbourne. His research explores electronic dance music, DJing and club culture in Australia.
Member at Large: Héctor Fouce (Spain)
…teaches Communications and Semiotics in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Popular Music in the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He has been a music journalist for more than a decade. Also, he has been the curator of several exhibitions about popular music. Personal website: fouce.net
Member at Large: Sara Jansson (Sweden)
…is a PhD student in Musicology at the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg. Her thesis subject is music technology (primarily sound-reproduction technology) and gender in Sweden, 1925-2010, with an emphasis on hi-fi enthusiasts and record collectors.
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