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 world-wide. 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.
In addition to this website, these IASPM
branches provide
information on special websites:
Some of these branches publish regularly newsletters or back
journals on popular music studies.
As popular Music is as much a local as a global phenomena, IASPM has emphasized since its very beginning an international perspective for research.
| The 6th National Australian/New Zealand
IASPM conference "Musical Visons'98" held in Adelaide,
Australia, June 25-28, 1998 brought together different
disciplines and fields of interest. The book resonates with
the aims and atmosphere of the conference. |
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. The 9th one took place 27 - 31
July, 1997 in Kanazawa, Japan. |
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Further information:
'Popular Music Studies News'
(13-October-1999) |
Further information:
'Popular Music Studies News'
(22-April-1999) |
Between conferences, the international IASPM mailing list and the Newsletter
RPM (The Review of Popular Music) keep the members in touch.
The IASPM Executive Committee from 2009 through to
2011 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 .
- 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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