CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting r…[Read more]

Since first appearing as a stylistic outgrowth of the D.C. hardcore scene, emo has expanded across the world and to every corner of the internet. Like the genre’s often pubescent audience, this emergence has come with its own g…[Read more]

The SMT Jazz Interest Group Solicits nominations for the 2025 Award for Excellence in Jazz Scholarship. This award acknowleges outstanding contributions to the field of jazz theory and analysis. Eligibility extends to books, book chapters, articles, delivered conference papers, dissertations,…[Read more]

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

I'm pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

Best wishes,

Vivien

Timbre and Orchestration in Popular Song
June 5–7, 2025, McGill University, Montreal QC, Canada

Timbre and orchestration are essential aspects of musical experience in any culture or style. They enable us to effortlessly identify different genres of music and are particularly important in popular musics. This centrality is r…[Read more]

This year’s Outstanding Publication Award winner is Lori Burns for her article “Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal: The Case of Tatiana Shmayluk (Jinjer),” published in Music Theory Online in 2023. In this article, Burns combi…[Read more]

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The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington seeks candidates for a tenured or tenure-track position in music theory to develop and teach in its new programs in music production and music business, with an expected start date of August 1, 2025. https://ind…[Read more]

The SMT Popular Music Interest Group invites proposals for works-in-progress lightning talks (7-10 minutes) for our interest group meeting during the upcoming Society for Music Theory Annual…[Read more]

I'm excited to see how many folks have been requesting to join the Zotero library, and I appreciate your patience with getting approvals done!

The Zotero library is a living bibliography, so we will need to continue adding resources to it. I am resharing our bibliography submission form so that we can continue to build out our…[Read more]

Jacob Cupps, our outgoing Webmaster, and Holly Bergeron-Dumaine put together a large Zotero group library, which we will all be able to use going forward! On behalf of the PMIG, I…[Read more]

Assistant Professor of Popular Music
University of California, Riverside

Anticipated start: July 1, 2024
Salary will be commensurate with education and experience and will be dependent on final placement at rank and step.
To ensure full consideration, applications and supporting material should be received by Monday,…[Read more]

• Doctoral Research Fellowship in Musical Rhythm and Groove
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Rhythm and Music Production
• Doctoral Research Fellowship in Music Production
• Doctoral Research…

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Chair: Emily Milius
Secretary: Madison Stepherson
Webmaster: Sophia Wetzel

VOTE

Voting will close Friday, 12/1 @5pm Eastern.

Thanks again for an inspiring gettogether in Denver!

The question of whether the interest group should give out an award came up again, and I have thought of something of a counter-suggestion.

We've been discussing the problems of canonisation, both in regards of music and scholarship, and the idea of awarding "outstanding…[Read more]

Thank you Cora and Jennifer!

Poll

You can review our current bylaws here:

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Please complete the poll by Sunday, November 19th @ 5:00pm EST.

CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting re…[Read more]

SMT PMIG, Friday…[Read more]

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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The current bylaws are available to view and download from Google Drive. Interested parties should access this document,…[Read more]

As those of you who attended our January meeting might recall, the HHRIG currently assembling a hip-hop studies bibliography. In its current form, the bibliography is being drafted as a Google Doc and has just over fifty entries. I have also added a PDF copy of it to the Files Tab on this group page. I am reaching out today to…[Read more]

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]

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]

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
Keyno…[Read more]