There is a new position to be filled on the editorial board of the IASPM@Journal, the journal associated with the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, a multilingual forum for popular music scholarship across a range of research disciplines and subjects. Continue reading →

Open Position: Copy Editor

The editors of Achtung! The U2 Studies Journal are seeking volunteer staff members for its online publication debuting in May 2012 at www.U2journal.com. Continue reading →

For anyone wishing to assist John Collins in rebuilding and restoring after the recent Accra floods, donations can be made (through PayPal) via any of the links below:

http://blog.afropop.org/2011/11/flood-disaster-at-john-collinss-bokoor.html

http://bapmaf.blogspot.com

Anyone who already has a PayPal account can simply make a donation through PayPal to newbapmaf@yahoo.com. People who don’t have a PayPal account should click on the donate button. All donations should be marked as a “gift” in order to ensure that PayPal doesn’t take a cut of donations.

A memorial service for Charles Hamm (1925-1911) will be held on Saturday, 3 December 2011, 3-5 p.m., Norwich Inn, Norwich, Vermont.

Please RSVP if you expect to attend, to Chris Hamm at jcsong@u.washington.edu.

If you cannot attend, but would like to enter words into the memorial register, please send them to Chris (jcsong@u.washington.edu) or mail them to him at:  Chris Hamm/13530 16th Ave NE/Seattle, WA 98125.

A personal tribute by Philip Tagg

Charles Hamm, founder member of IASPM and distinguished music scholar, died on 16 October 2011. He will be sorely missed.

I was delighted when, in 1981, Charles agreed to deliver a paper at the first IASPM international conference in Amsterdam. And what a paper it was! If only we’d paid more attention to what was really popular on TV — The Osmonds and Sousa marches rather than to what was #1 in the charts (Kim Carnes) or particularly cool among rockologists— we “could easily have predicted the outcome of last fall’s presidential election”, he argued, “and anticipated other recent events in the United States signalling a massive swing to the right, politically and socially” (Hamm, 1982: 13). Continue reading →

The 2011 IASPM Book Prize
Co-ordinated by Antti-Ville Kärjä
Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

The 2011 IASPM prize for a book written in English is awarded to Protest Music in France by Barbara Lebrun.
The 2011 IASPM Book Prize for a book written in a language other than English is awarded to Creating the Myth of ‘Japanese Spirit’ by Yusuke Wajima.
Special Mention is given to El videoclip en España by Eduardo Viñuela.

Download the Book Prize report here [104KB].

Dear IASPM members,

Greetings!

This is Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa writing to greet members before many go off on summer holiday (while others across the world go back to work after a short winter break). I would like to express my delight at being elected IASPM Executive Chair for 2011-2013. Continue reading →

During the closing plenary session at IASPM 2011 International conference, six speakers from as many continents were asked to present their summarising comments on the conference. These are Bruce Johnson’s reflections for Australasia.

First, I want once again to thank and congratulate the conference organisers for the logistical triumph they have achieved in getting us all to this relatively inaccessible destination, for looking after us so well and so cheerfully, and for organising not just the conference, but some really memorable excursions. Continue reading →

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Entrants are invited for the new Popular Music Essay Competition.

Entrants should address the following theme:

Questioning popular music orthodoxies

Essays may engage with any established popular music orthodoxy (whether the assumptions of critics and scholars or the habits of music makers and their audiences). Essays should provoke debate about the established practice and study of popular music, and may propose new approaches and practices.

The winning essay will be published in Popular Music and the winner will receive £500.

The essay should be no longer than 3000 words and must be in the Popular Music house style (see the Popular Music website for details).

It should be submitted by September 15th 2011 to the Popular Music Editorial Group at: PMEssayCompetition@gmail.com

The essays will be judged by the Editorial Group and the International Advisory Board of Popular Music.