A conversation with Morgan Bimm, Kate Galloway, and Amy Skjerseth, Guest Editors of the Journal of Popular Music Studies Special Issue “Recast, Podcast, Broadcast: Podcasting Popular Music” JPMS‘s current issue is devoted …
By James Walvin, author of Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn It may seem odd for a historian of slavery to write a history of a popular hymn. In …
By Táhirih Motazedian, author of Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film My path to music theory and film music was a circuitous one: in college I originally started out as a music performance …
By Amy Coddington, author of How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race As hip hop turns 50, many mainstream outlets have highlighted how it has utterly transformed U.S. popular …
By Kerry O’Brien and William Robin, co-authors of On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement “Thursday evening was a major moment for musical Minimalism,” the New York Times declared last month. The Chicago …
The 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) is being held this week from August 24-28, 2023, at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. In honor of the 2023 conference, we have removed …
The current issue of the Journal of Musicology hosts a forum on “Centering Discomfort in Global Music History.” We asked contributors Daniel Castro Pantoja and Olivia Bloechl to talk a little more …
The 21st biannual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and the annual meeting of its US branch, IASPM-US, is being held this week in Minneapolis from …