Dear All,

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

Call for Proposals:

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]

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 PMIG Publication awards!

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]

As an outgrowth of my master’s thesis and a recent grant, I’ve created and regularly update a large, group library in Zotero of single-author monographs on rock and pop. Please note that I exclude many non-rock genres including country, rap, hip-hop, techno, and folk. Older books are annotated and books after 2012 are not.

I’m not a member of SMT…[Read more]

The pop-music-bib at https://hcommons.org/docs/popular-music-bibliography/ is excellent for what it is, but I see only a handful of sources published in the past fifteen years. If you have citations of recent useful items in the analysis of popular music, I’d be grateful if you can send them to me at weverett at umich.edu, substituting “@” for “…[Read more]

Nominations are officially open for the Popular Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award https://tinyurl.com/opnominations2024 and the Adam Krims Award https://tinyurl.com/aknominations2024. Please follow these links to access the nomination forms. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively i…[Read more]

JOB: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Music Theory (Popular Music)

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 Popular Music Interest Group currently has a CFP for the upcoming SMT annual meeting in November. Please read the full CFP below for more details!

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]

Hello everyone! Summer research is almost upon is, so I wanted to share a new resource that two members of the PMIG group have worked on over the last couple of years.

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]

Hey, PMIG friends! I am doing freelance editing work and wanted to offer these services to anyone in PMIG who might be interested. As a professor, I know how taxing it can be (especially during the semester) to get publications turned around. It can be challenging to edit anyway, but when you are stressed and pressed for time, the task can seem…[Read more]

From Leonora Saavadra:

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]

Congratulations to our new PMIG officers!

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

Please use the link to vote for your PMIG officers for 2024:

VOTE

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

If you missed our fantastic session in Denver, or would like a refresher, Cora Palfy and Jennifer Snodgrass have graciously agreed to share their presentation materials with us. Both can be found on our HC page under the “Files” section.

Thank you Cora and Jennifer!