IASPM is an international organization established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music. Founded in 1981, IASPM has grown into an international network of more that 700 members world-wide. On national and international levels, the organization's activities include conferences, publications, and research projects designed to advance an understanding of popular music and the processes involved in its production and consumption. To build a large and diverse body of knowledge of popular music, IASPM is an organization which is both interprofessional and interdisciplinary. It welcomes as members anyone involved with popular music. To preserve its autonomy, the association remains independent of all commercial and governmental
interests.
In addition to this website, these IASPM
branches provide
information on special websites:
Some of these branches publish regularly newsletters or back
journals on popular music studies.
As popular Music is as much a local as a global phenomena, IASPM has emphasized since its very beginning an international perspective for research.
| The 6th National Australian/New Zealand
IASPM conference "Musical Visons'98" held in Adelaide,
Australia, June 25-28, 1998 brought together different
disciplines and fields of interest. The book resonates with
the aims and atmosphere of the conference. |
Every two years, the Executive Committee
invites the members to reflect on their plans and the
results of academic and journalistic projects at an
international conference. The 9th one took place 27 - 31
July, 1997 in Kanazawa, Japan. |
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Further information:
'Popular Music Studies News'
(13-October-1999) |
Further information:
'Popular Music Studies News'
(22-April-1999) |
Between conferences, the international IASPM mailing list and the Newsletter
RPM (The Review of Popular Music) keep the members in touch.
The IASPM Executive Committee from 2007 through to 2009 is:
- Chair: Geoff Stahl (New Zealand)
is a Lecturer in Media Studies at Victoria University, Wellington.
- General Secretary: Shane Homan (Australia)
is a senior lecturer at Monash University.
- Membership Secretary/Treasurer: Michael Drewett (South Africa)
is a Lecturer at Rhodes University.
- Web: Carlo Nardi (Italy, Germany)
is a performer and independent music researcher in Berlin
- Member at Large: Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa (Brazil)
Professor at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UNIRIO
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