Founded in 1998, the Popular Music Interest Group is dedicated to promoting the scholarly study of popular music through methods including musical analysis and theory. Our goals include:
• Ensuring academic recognition for popular music research
• Encouraging more scholars of music theory to engage popular repertoires
• Encouraging scholars of popular music to make effective use of musical analysis and theory
On our Humanities Commons site, we rely on our members to help edit this resource — this cooperation will help continually improve the presence of popular music in our classrooms and scholarship. Many thanks!
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Megan Lavengood replied to the topic PMIG Bylaws: Revisions and Updates in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days agoI’ll suggest new language to clarify and specify what kinds of scholarship should be considered for the Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award, as follows (additions in bold):
The Chair will solicit nominations for the Interest Group’s two publication awards annually. Anyone may nominate a publication for an award. An Award C…
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic PMIG Bylaws: Revisions and Updates in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 1 month agoOne item on the business meeting agenda for the PMIG meeting in Denver this year will be updating the group’s bylaws. We would like to begin this process by soliciting changes from group members in advance of the meeting.
The current bylaws are available to view and download from Google Drive. Interested parties should access this document,…[Read more]
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Jacob P. Cupps started the topic PMIG 2023 Awards Nominations are Open! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoNominations are officially open for the Popular Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award—click on these links to nominate. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively impacted you. Self-nominations are especially encouraged! Note that to be eligible for an award, the public…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited Formal Functions and Rotations in Top-40 EDM in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoPublications on form in popular music have largely assumed the formal sections germane to pop-rock to be the formal designs of “popular music.” But the most popular music of our time—music charting on the Billboard Top-40—has absorbed the influence of electronic dance music (EDM) in a way that has fundamentally changed its formal structu…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited The Subdominant Tritone in Film and Television Music in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoTritones sounding over subdominant harmony, either as suspensions, accented passing tones, or incomplete neighbors, constitute a class of sonorities regularly heard in film and television music. I collectively refer to these phenomena as “subdominant tritones” (SdTT), and theorize a link between the SdTT and emotions it engenders. The article pre…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic IASPM Conference Registration (Minneapolis) in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 months agoRegistration is now open for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) biennial global conference, hosted by the US branch (IASPM-US) in Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota. The global conference has not been hosted in North America since 2007 and not in the US since 1993. The conference runs Monday, June 26…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic PMIG 2023 Session in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week agoHi Everyone!
We are currently accepting informal proposals and ideas for the topic and format of our Fall meeting. We will be in Denver in November for SMT, which is being held jointly with AMS. We are particularly interested in formats that include some element of interactivity with attendees, though any and all proposals will be considered. We…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Popular Music Theory & Analysis Summer School (IPM-IPM-SMA) in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoPopular Music Theory & Analysis Summer School (IPM-IPM-SMA)
Tuesday 29th – Thursday 31st August 2023, University of Liverpool
The Institutes of Popular Music of both Rochester and Liverpool, together with the Society for Music Analysis, are pleased to announce their second Summer School dedicated to popular music theory and analysis. Teachin…[Read more]
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Brad Osborn deposited Triangulating Timbre in Sigur Rós’s Iceland in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 7 months agoOsborn, Brad and D.K. Blake. 2019. “Triangulating Timbre in Sigur Rós’s Iceland.” In *Sounds Icelandic*, edited by Thorbjörg Daphne Hall, N. Dibben, Á.H. Ingólfsson, and T. Mitchell. Equinox Press, 208–219.
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Mikkel Vad started the topic CFP: Teaching Popular Music Studies in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoHi all,
Please consider submitting a proposal for this special session at this year’s AMS/SMT conference.
Best,
Mikkel
CFP: Teaching Popular Music <wbr />Studies: Pedagogy and Curriculum
American Musicological Society Popular Music Study Group
Submission deadline: February 21, 2023
Conference Dates: November 9–12, 2023, Denver, CO
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Landon Morrison started the topic CFP Deadline Extended: “Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures” in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week agoInstruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media
>> UPDATE: new deadline for submission of proposals is Tuesday, January 31st @ 11:59pm
We are pleased to announce a three-day conference bringing together researchers and artists from a variety of music-related disciplines for a dialogue on the i…[Read more]
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Marcello Messina deposited The Internet of Musical Stuff (IoMuSt): ubimus perspectives on artificial scarcity, virtual communities and (de)objectification in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 9 months, 1 week agoPart of the recent developments in Ubiquitous Music (ubimus) research involve the proposal of the Internet of Musical Stuff (IoMuSt) as an expansion and complement to the Internet of Musical Things (IoMusT). The transition from IoMusT to IoMuSt entails a critique of blockchain and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as technologies for allotment,…[Read more]
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Landon Morrison started the topic CFP: “Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures” (Harvard, May 11-13, 2023) in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoCALL FOR PAPERS
“Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media”
Harvard University Department of Music, May 11-13, 2023
Deadline for submissions: Friday, January 13, 2023
We are pleased to announce a three-day conference bringing together researchers and artists from a variety of music-related disci…[Read more]
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Katie Lakner started the topic Transcription Help Needed in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoHello! I hope everyone had a great conference this weekend. I’ll be honest: my aural skills are terrible and very rusty. Furthermore, my guitar knowledge is practically nonexistent. Still, I love rock music.
I am looking for someone who can transcribe “Beautiful Blue” by Mudcrutch. I plan to use the transcription for personal analytical use.…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic IASPM-US 2023 CFP in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoIASPM-US is hosting the international IASPM conference next year at the University of Minneapolis — Twin Cities, June 26–30, 2023. The CFP is due by November 18.
https://iaspm-us.wildapricot.<wbr />org/IASPM-International-2023
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic 2022 PMIG Session Schedule in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago2022 SMT PMIG Schedule
Friday, Nov. 11, 12:30–2:00pm
Chair: Matthew Ferrandino; Secretary: Emily Milius; Webmaster: Jacob Cupps
12:30–35 – Intro/Welcome
12:35–1:35 – Presentations (details below)
1:35–1:50 – Q&A
1:50–1:55 – Trevor de Clercq, PMIG “Splinter Groups”
1:55–2:00 – AK and OP award recipients [Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic PMIG 2022 Awards Nominations are Open! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoNominations are officially open for the Popular Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award and the Adam Krims Award —click on these links to nominate. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively impacted you. Self-nominations are especially encouraged! Note that to be eligible for an award, the pub…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino replied to the topic SMT PMIG 2022 Session in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThank you all for your input, our topic will be on timbre and production! Below is the CFP:
AMS/SEM/SMT New Orleans 2022:
Call for Papers hosted by the Society for Music Theory’s Popular Music Interest GroupInterpreting and Analyzing Timbre and Production in Popular MusicIn recent years, scholars such as Victoria Maleway, Megan Lavengood, and…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino replied to the topic SMT PMIG 2022 Session in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoHi All!
We’ve narrowed down our choices for our 2022 session to three topics! Please fill out this Google Form by Monday, June 13.
https://docs.google.com/forms/<wbr />d/e/<wbr />1FAIpQLSc4J6vWy6sqkaUMtRUjUFSQ<wbr />MiAQ5Lnl6INjpEJMVD0wbtbwIQ/<wbr />viewform?usp=pp_url
Thanks!
-Matt
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Sean Lorre started the topic CFP: Journal of Jazz Studies in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoGreetings!
Have a paper, speculative essay, media review or creative work in need of an outlet? Looking for a fast and efficient editorial process? The Journal of Jazz Studies is actively seeking submissions for issues to be published in 2022 (and beyond) and would love to work with you!
The Institute of Jazz Studies seeks manuscript s…[Read more]
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