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IASPM-US represents the United States branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. IASPM-US has been an important part of the popular music landscape since the early 1980s and serves as a forum for a range of scholarly areas and approaches to popular music. We're witnessing a period of dramatic and exciting growth in the field of popular music studies, and IASPM-US continues to make significant contributions to the field.

IASPM-US holds open elections for all positions, and has an operating set of Bylaws. IASPM-US is also established as an official 501(c)(3) corporation and can provide donors with documentation of the tax deductibility of their contributions.

Call for IASPM-US Officer Nominations

IASPM-US Board of Directors 2009-2010

President: Beverly Keel
Vice President: Eric Weisbard
Past President: Cheryl L. Keyes
Secretary: Melvin Butler
Treasurer: Boden Sandstrom
Open Seat: Rebekah Farrugia

Executive Committee

Pub. Officer, Journal: Kevin Dettmar
Pub. Officer, Newsletter: Dan Cavicchi
Pub. Officer, Web site: René T.A. Lysloff
Open Seat: Alejandro Madrid
Open Seat: Theo Cateforis
Student Seat: Luis-Manuel Garcia
Student Seat: Daphne Carr
Honorary: Portia Maultsby Open Ended
Honorary: Charles Hamm Open Ended
Honorary: Reebee Garofalo Open Ended

Previous Boards of Directors

Association Committees

Publications Advisory Committee (2008-2010) — Chair: Barbara Ching. Members: Melvin Butler, Kevin Dettmar, Annie Randall, Patricia Tang.

Diversity Committee (2009) — TBA

Fair Use Committee — Chair: Patrick Burkhart, Associate Chair: Kembrew McLeod. Members: Michael Carroll, Steve Jones, Marc Perlman, John Tehranian, Siva Vaidhyanathan.

IASPM-US Program Committee (2009) — Chair: Kenneth Habib. Members: Dale Chapman, Maria Johnson, Beverly Keel, Paul Lopes, Maureen Mahon.

Local Arrangements Committee (2009) — Chair: David Borgo. Members: Ana Maria Alarcon-Jimenez Ignacio Lopez, Jason Robinson, Chris Tonelli, Steve Willard, James Gordon Williams.

Membership Committee (2006) — Chair: Norma Coates. Members: Paul Fischer, and Jason Hanley.

Music and Action Committee (2006-2007) — Chair: Reebee Garofalo. Members, Boden Sandstrom, Paul Fischer, and Cynthia Fuchs.

Nomination Committee (2009) — Maria Survilla and Barry Faulk (co-chairs), Gayle Wald.

Popular Music Pedagogy Committee — Chair: Susan Oehler. Members: Jason Hanley, Emmett Price, Dan Cavicchi.

Student Paper Prize Committee (2008) — Norma Coates, Chair; Patrick Burkart, and Bjorn Ingvoldstad (Selected in 2007 to judge the best paper presented at the 2008 IASPM-US conference)

Woody Guthrie Award Committee (2009) — Steve Waksman (chair), Heidi Feldman, and Cheryl L. Keyes (works in 2009 to judge the best book published in 2008). Woody Guthrie Award information

Previous Committees

IASPM-US Interest Groups
Information about starting an interest group, and a listing of current groups.

IASPM-US Bylaws   
Download and view the Association's formal Bylaws.