Journal of Popular Music Studies
Journal of Popular Music Studies
Featured articles in Issue 24:1 (March 2012):
- Russian Jews and “Gypsy Punks”: The Performance of Real and Imagined Cultural Identities within a Transnational Migrant Group – Rebecca Jablonsky
- Biomusic and Popular Culture: The Use of Animal Sounds in the Music of the Beatles – Henrik Brumm
- Stunde Nult: Postwar German Identity in the Music of Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger – Ulrich Adelt
- The Time is Now: Acceptance and Conquest in Pop Music – Rossen Ventzislavov
- Tina Theory: Notes on Fierceness – Madison Moore
- On the Doctoral Dissertation of One Electroacoustic Musician (Fragments) – Rick Moody and Michael D Snediker
Featured articles in Issue 23:4 (December 2011):
- Call Me Morbid – Peter Coviello
- This Safer Space: Janelle Monae’s “Cold War” – Shana L. Redmond
- “I Can’t Go to an Indigo Girls Concert, I Just Can’t”: Glee‘s Shameful Lesbian Musicality – Christina Belcher
- Post-Fidelity: A New Age of Music Consumption and Technological Innovation – Daniel Guberman
- “Brown Girl in the Ring”: Poly Styrene, Annabella Lwin, and the Politics of Anger – Jayna Brown
Featured articles in Issue 23:3 (September 2011):
- “No, I Can’t Forget”: Performance and Memory in Dengue Fever’s Cambodian America – Joshua Chambers-Letson
- Big Business, Real Estate Determinism, and Dance Culture in New York, 1980-88 – Tim Lawrence
- “Flip off the Mirror as Protest”: Xiu Xiu and the Cause of Desire – Leon Hilton
- Fan Discourse and the Construction of Noise Music as a Genre – Chris Atton
- The Historical Consciousness of Sunshine Pop – Keir Keightley
- How to Write about Bob Dylan: A Step-by-Step Guide – Karl Hagstrom-Miller
Featured articles in Issue 23:2 (June 2011):
- They Say She’s Different: Race, Gender, Genre, and the Liberated Black Femininity of Betty Davis – Maureen Mahon
- Elvis Presley and Susan Boyle: Bodies of Controversy – Mark Duffett
- No Logos? – Wayne Marshall
- On Meaningless – Joanna Demers
- How Can I Refuse? – Alexandra T. Vazquez
- Talking Popular Music in the Field and off the Field – Eric Weisbard
- Sound Recordings and Popular Music Histories: The Remix – David Suisman
- “We’re Talking about Practice (-Based Research)”: Serious Play and Serious Performance in the Practice of Popular Music Ethnography – Anthony Kwame Harrison
- Choral Vocality and Pop Fantasies of Collaboration – Karen Tongson
- Strategic Naivete – Gustavus Stadler
Featured articles in Issue 23:1 (March 2011):
- Guest Editors’ Comment: Michael Jackson in/as U.S. Popular Culture
- Working Day and Night: Black Masculinity and the King of Pop – Andreana Clay
- Michael Jackson’s Kingdom: Music, Race, and the Sound of the Mainstream — Tamara Roberts
- Have You Seen His Childhood? Song, Screen, and the Queer Culture of the Child in Michael Jackson’s Music – Tavia Nyong’o
- Michael Jackson’s Panther Dance: Double Consciousness and the Uncanny Business of Performing While Black – Elizabeth Chin
Supplemental audio-visual material:
Clay article: The Jackson 5 “Who’s Loving You” on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1969; Eddie Murphy on MJ in Delirious; “In the Closet” music video
Roberts article: “Beat It” music video; “Dirty Diana” music video; “Jam” music video;
Nyong’o article: Trailer for HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I; “I’ll Be There” Pepsi commercial extended version; “Childhood” music video
Chin article: “Black or White” music video
Featured articles in Issue 22:4 (December 2010):
- The Journey of “Viva Tirado”: A Musical Conversation within Afro-Chicano Los Angeles–Oliver Wang
- “Now I’m a Happy Dyke!”: Creating Collective Identity and Queer Community in Greenham Women’s Songs–Anna Feigenbaum
- Not Another Remix: How Obama Became the First Hip-Hop President–Travis L. Gosa
- The World According to Marsalis: Difference and Sameness in Wynton Marsalis’s From the Plantation to the Penitentiary–John Paul Meyers
- Chris Blackwell and “My Boy Lollipop”: Ska, Race, and British Popular Music–Jon Stratton
- Conceptualizing the Cognitive and Functional Benefits of Playing Beatles Rock Band from an Ecological, Bio-Psychosocial Perspective–Daniel R. George
Supplemental Audio-Visual Material:
Audio: “Viva Tirado” mix to accompany article by Oliver Wang.
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In partnership with Blackwell Publishing, IASPM-US publishes the Journal of Popular Music Studies (ISSN 1524-2226), a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to research on popular music throughout the world and approached from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. Published three times a year, each issue features essays and reviews, as well as roundtables and creative works inspired by popular music.
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