International Association for the Study of Popular Music - US Branch

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):

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):

Supplemental Audio-Visual Material:

Audio: “Viva Tirado” mix to accompany article by Oliver Wang.

Viva Tirado (Part 1)–Gerald Wilson: Moment of Truth (Pacific Jazz, 1962)
El Chicano: S/T (Kapp/MCA, 1970)
Jack Costanzo: Viva Tirado (GNP Crescendo, 1970)
Los Mozambiques: El Presidiario (1970)
Viva Tirado (Part 2)–Augustus Pablo: Authentic Golden Memories (Rockers International, 1980)
Fania All-Stars: Latin Soul Rock (Fania, 1974)
Kid Frost: Hispanic Causing Panic (Virgin, 1990)
Akwid: Clasificado R (Machete, 2010)

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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.

Annual membership in IASPM-US entitles you to a subscription to the Journal of Popular Music Studies as well as the Newsletter. Subscription to the Journal is also the easiest way to become a member of IASPM-US.

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