<Reminder: 2025 CfP-Joint Meeting of SMT Post-1945 IG and Improvisation IG>

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN (Friday, 07/Nov/2025: 12:30pm – 2…[Read more]

<New Deadline: Call for Papers for 2025 Joint Meeting of SMT Post-1945 IG and Improvisation IG>

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN. We invite paper p…[Read more]

Nominations are officially open for the Popular Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award (https://tinyurl.com/opnominations2025) and the Adam Krims Award (https://tinyurl.com/aknominations2025). Please follow these links to access the nomination forms. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively…[Read more]

<Final Reminder: Call for Papers for 2025 Joint Meeting of SMT Post-1945 IG and Improvisation IG>

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN. We invite paper p…[Read more]

<Reminder: Call for Papers for 2025 Joint Meeting of SMT Post-1945 IG and Improvisation IG>

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN. We invite paper proposals o…[Read more]

<Call for Papers for 2025 Joint Meeting of SMT Post-1945 IG and Improvisation IG>

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN. We invite paper proposals on the t…[Read more]

Apologies for posting issues, HC is not very reliable!

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]

<(Final Reminder) 2025 Publication Awards Nominations are Now Accepted! (By March 31)>

Dear scholars of post-1945 music,

The SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group is now accepting nominations of published articles or book chapters for its annual Publication Award. Please consider nominating recent work in the field from the past three…[Read more]

<(Reminder) 2025 Publication Awards Nominations are Now Accepted! (By March 31)>

Dear scholars of post-1945 music,

The SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group is now accepting nominations of published articles or book chapters for its annual Publication Award. Please consider nominating recent work in the field from the past three years.…[Read more]

Dear scholars of post-1945 music,

The SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group is now accepting nominations of published articles or book chapters for its annual Publication Award. Please consider nominating recent work in the field from the past three years. Self-nominations are welcome.

Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published…[Read more]

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 Jiaqian Zhu

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]

Dear Post-1945 Interest Group Members,

We had one nomination for webmaster: Ryan Jones, current PhD student at Eastman. The election is now open, you may vote during the next two weeks.

The election is via an anonymous Google Form: https://forms.gle/mWV9zxQA5uz6H5Yq6

Hope everyone’s having a nice end to their semester,

Noah

Hi all,

With apologies for this process being delayed by 2 weeks, I’m writing to open up nominations for the webmaster position for SMT’s Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group. I’ve been in this role for the past 5 years, and feel about ready to pass the torch.

The website (smtpost1945musicanalysisinterestgroup.hcommons.org) is run through…[Read more]

Here we are thrilled to announce and congratulate the winner of Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award 2o24:

Antares (Tara) Boyle, Portland State University.  “Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino’s Recitativo oscuro” (Music Theory Online 29, no. 4 (2023))

Also, we are happy to share the original announcement by Landon Morr…[Read more]

Reminder: Global Interculturalism & Musical Peripheries and Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Groups Joint Meeting
Chairs: 
Noah Kahrs, Northern Arizona University (Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group)</p>
Gui Hwan Lee, James Madison University (Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group)</p>
Ji Yeon Lee, University of Houston (The Global…[Read more]