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Wadada Leo Smith holding his trumpet in one hand, arms outstretched, head down and eyes closed, wearing blue and white, dreadlocks hanging free, in a stage picture by the photographer Michael Jackson.

Wed Apr 22 in the Popular Music Books online series, we're honored to host the great trumpeter-composer Wadada Leo Smith discussing his musical philosophy w/ his co-author & the designer of his book in progress, Nina Sun Eidsheim & Juliette Bellocq. Join us! iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

JPMS is free this weekend!

Journal of Popular Music Studies | University of California Press

online.ucpress.edu/jpms

Word on the street is a new JPMS just dropped

Since it's on the @iaspm-us.bsky.social website, I'll make it official: I'm proud to announce that my first book, Extending Play, received honorable mention for the 2026 Woody Guthrie Award. Thanks, IASPM! And congrats to Matthew Morrison and David Suisman.

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Y'all are gonna wanna tune in to PMBIP tomorrow at 530pE for a virtuosic vocal run of a conversation between Amani Roberts, Brandon Tensley, and Emily Lordi about quiet storm and Whitney Houston. What else could you do but be there with us?

Schedule link: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

The cover of Robert Bernstein's What Do You Do When You're Lonesome? The Authorized Biography of Justin Townes Earle, with a B&W picture of a young Earle in a fedora with an acoustic guitar.

A black-and-white pic of L.A. "cowpunk" band X in 1980 with, left to right, DJ Bonebrake (in shades and black leather jacket), John Doe, Exene Cervenka holding a cat, and Billy Zoom (also in shades and shinier leather jacket).

This week in the Popular Music Books online series, it's "Cowpunks and Country Labor" with Jonathan Bernstein on his new book on Justin Townes Earle and Robert Morast previewing his novel in progress, COWPUNK. Wed, 5:30 pm ET on Zoom, see here to join: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

The Day Dominican Republic Bachata Royals Conquered New York With A Secret Album At Madison Square Garden, Romeo Santos and Prince Royce unveiled their long-rumored joint album to a packed, screaming crowd, turning a secret seven-year project into a Dominican American block party ...

Thanks for the shout-out to @iaspm-us.bsky.social's "Journal of Popular Music Studies." latinamericanpost.com/life/enterta...

In case you missed it, here's last night's PMBIP conversation between Chris Dalla Riva and graphic designer Caileigh Nerney about turning using pop charts data to understand popular culture and how to best visualize that data

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdN...

Cool looking CFP posted by Varun. Varun is so cool, smart, handsome, and funny and definitely doesn't run this account

Volume 37 Issue 3 | Journal of Popular Music Studies | University of California Press

"Journal of Popular Music Studies" co-editors @burrata.bsky.social & Alisha Lola Jones's reflect on their 1st year editing "JPMS" in the Sept issue online now. We pub JPMS in partnership with @iaspm-us.bsky.social. online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3...

Book award nominations!

@iaspm-us.bsky.social invites nominations for the 2026 Woody Guthrie and Greg Tate Book Awards: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Guthrie-and-...

CFP: @iaspm-us.bsky.social 2026 Conference Popular Music and the State

iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/2026-confere...

Abstracts for IASPM-US are due tomorrow!!!! Eeek!!!

Also, conference abstracts due on the 15th!!!

Iaspm call for event funding!!!

Call for event funding!!!

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📣 Most read in The Journal of Beatles Studies
‘Echoes of the Beatles in Hamburg: The telling of the origin story’, by Hans Olof Gottfridsson.

Read this article #OpenAccess: bit.ly/Beatles-Echoes
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Please send the following info to all 7! co-organizers if you would like to participate

IASPM Popular Music Books in Process Call

Quick reminder that if you want to be part of our music book series, there is about a week to send in a proposal. Go for it! iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Calls-and-An...

Pop music scholars, are you up for the down stroke? Then apply to @iaspm-us.bsky.social’s DC conference for next spring.

This issue is a big deal. First, it’s guest-edited by Georgina Born and @anthroposound.bsky.social , two of the best of their respective generations of musical anthropologists. Second, the contributor lineup is outstanding.

JPMS is under the @iaspm-us.bsky.social umbrella. The crew is great, and these positions are light on labor, while being solid service opportunities. Would love to have you come work with us.

JPMS needs some editors!!!!

Popular Music Books in Process series, 2025-2026 Call for Proposals Since 2020, the Popular Music Books in Process series has held online events for music writers and scholars to showcase recent books or works in progress for an engaged audience. The series is a collaboration between the Journal of Popular Music Studies, the Pop Conference, and IASPM-US. There have been more than 140 Zoom events so far, almost all preserved on YouTube. We generally run biweekly from fall through spring. We look forward to another round of presentations. If you are publishing a book in the next year, or have ongoing work to showcase, please let us know. All kinds of formats are welcome, from readings and dialogues to roundtables, always including a generous Q&A. Some authors have even incorporated live music. We ask you to make your event conversational on some level and avoid longer solo presentations. If you need ideas for interlocutors or co-presenters, we can suggest some. Our YouTube page shows the variety of strategies presenters have used. We may group authors with kindred approaches, too. Whatever the format, our focus remains books, whether early in gestation or after publication. We want to showcase popular music writing of many kinds, keeping our communities connected, and welcoming in new participants. Presenters are asked to do their best to attend several other sessions through the season. Please feel free to share this call with others you think might want to join in.

For anyone writing a book about music, you might find this invitation to present of interest! I participated in the @iaspm-us.bsky.social "Popular Music Books in Process Series" a couple of years ago, and it was a wonderful experience. 🎶

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Woman and Music volume 31 (2027) Global Queer/Trans Nightlives Proposals due Monday, June 2!

Call for papers, which may address (though not limited to) the following topics: interviews with drag artists, DJs, and performers; globalization and transnationalism; new methods; modes of exclusion; and diaspora. Guest editors are Paul David Flood, Alejandrina M. Medina, and Christina Misaki Nikitin.

Announcing the CFP for our forthcoming special issue of Women and Music on Global Queer/Trans Nightlives!

Delighted to be guest editing this special issue with my dear friends and colleagues @alejandrinammedina.bsky.social and Christina Misaki Nikitin.

Proposals due June 2! CFP here: bit.ly/WAMCFP

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