The committee for the David Sanjek Graduate Student Paper Prize of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch (IASPM-US) invites graduate students who will be presenting at the 2026 IASPM-US conference to submit their papers for consideration. The David Sanjek Graduate Student Paper is presented each year to the graduate student who has written and delivered the most outstanding paper at the conference.

Eligibility: Any graduate student who presents a formal paper at the 2026 meeting is eligible for the prize. A graduate student shall be defined as a person pursuing an active course of studies in a graduate degree program. This includes persons who are engaged in writing doctoral dissertations but not those who are teaching full-time while doing so. Student applicants must be members of IASPM-US.

Application Process: To apply for the prize, candidates must electronically submit a copy of their paper as it will be presented at the conference to Alyx Vesey at amvesey@ua.edu  (subject heading “David Sanjek Prize”) along with a brief 75-word bio and a copy of their conference registration receipt.

Paper submissions should be in Word or pdf format. The paper deposited is to be the version that is read at the conference and should not exceed 2800 words.

The deadline for submissions is Thursday, February 26^th, 2026, at 5:00 pm EST (the opening day of the 2026 IASPM-US Conference).

The winner will be announced on the IASPM-US website around the end of March.

Please feel free to email the chair of the committee, Alyx Vesey, if you have any questions.

Committee:

Alyx Vesey (University of Alabama)

Morgan Bimm (St. Francis Xavier University)

Matt Yuknas (Case Western Reserve University)

Manchester and beyond: Oasis, identity and performance.

Call for book chapters

On the occasion of (What’s The Story) Morning Glory’s 30th anniversary and the band’s phenomenal 2025 reunion, multidisciplinary contributions within the fields of cultural studies, literature, history, musicology, linguistics, and political science (among others) are sought for an edited volume examining Oasis’s place in British popular culture.

As the music industry has been rocked by successive crises – from the digitisation of music consumption to post-Brexit restrictions on exports and touring – Oasis’s successful reunion raises questions about the evolution of practices and consumption patterns in popular music and culture in general. 

The band’s lasting success since the 1990s also warrants an analysis of their songs and their ability to reflect British society in general, its political and cultural developments in particular, over a long and tumultuous period.

Particular focus needs to be brought on individual mechanisms of identification which seem to be at the heart of many fans' affection for the band. 

Moreover, Oasis have often been assigned several adjectives, such as Mancunian, northern, or working-class, but what to make of such labels when it comes to an artistic enterprise that is subject to the changing perceptions of a particular audience? 

Contributions on, but not limited to, the following topics will be particularly welcome:

•  Working-class identity / a working class voice?
• Regional identities (Manchester, northernness) and national identities (Englishness, Britishness, Irishness)
• Gender identities and masculinity in the band’s work, especially in the context of lad culture but also in the post-#MeToo world
• Commercial success and international perception (especially Morning Glory’s success in the United States)
• Influence on post-Britpop pop and rock music
• Political dimension of the band’s work, musicians’ political stances (from New Labour to Brexit)
• The band’s adaptation to the music industry’s crises.

Proposals (300-word abstract along with a short biography) should be sent to the organisers: 

aurore.caignet@univ-rennes2.fr, guillaume.clement@univ-rennes.fr, and david.haigron@univ-rennes2.fr 

by 30 March 2026.

Aurore Caignet, Guillaume Clément & David Haigron.

Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture is now accepting submissions for its 30th issue (2026). 

Women & Music is a refereed, interdisciplinary, annual journal that provides critical perspectives on the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, colonialism, and other politics and poetics of social life. We are broadly interested in theoretical and methodological paradigms that bring new insight to the gendered dimensions of the production, circulation, and consumption of music and sound.

Committed to publishing a wide range of disciplines and approaches grounded in global geocultural contexts, we are especially interested in work that generatively illuminates the broader stakes of drawing analyses of sound together with current feminist thought. 

The journal welcomes 

• stand-alone academic articles (typically 6,000-10,000 words) and shorter, thematically-linked pieces (e.g. colloquies and roundtables), including those making use of creative, poetic, and expansive writing forms
• proposals for special issues
• short scores (broadly conceived) that have not been previously published.

Please visit https://nebraskapressjournals.unl.edu/journal/women-and-music-a-journal-of-gender-and-culture for submission instructions.

Co-editors:

Sidra Lawrence, Dan Wang, and Yun Emily Wang