On Friday, June 28th, 2024, we will hold our ninth annual student conference on popular music research organized by IASPM Benelux at HKU in Utrecht. This one-day event will offer a series of panels led and presented by students at all levels of their academic careers. The goal of the event is to provide students with the opportunity to share their research with others, receive feedback, and connect with peers across disciplines with a joint interest in popular music.
On 30 March to 1 April 1984 the conference “Kantlijnen van de Pop” took place at Paradiso in Amsterdam – the founding moment of the Benelux branch of IASPM. While during the 2-day conference leading academics including Boudewijn Büch as chair and the British sociologist Simon Frith took presented their work and discussed popular music studies as an emerging field of research, in the evening The Falls and INXS performed in Paradiso. The conference was followed by a big record and cassette collectors fair. Special thanks to founding member and conference organizer Stan Rijven for reminding us of this important date!
We are happy to invite our members for the 13th edition of IASPM Benelux POP TALKS, this time in collaboration with Music Matters at the University of Groningen. Dr Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta from the University of Birmingham will talk about his new book Together, Somehow available now through Duke University Press on February 20th, 17:00-18:30 CET.
As the year comes to a close, we would like to thank you for a great year! 2023 was filled with a multitude of fun and inspiring popular music themed events - including the annual student conference and thesis prize, lectures in the POP Talks series and beyond. To get a full overview of what we have been up to, please have a look at our 2023 newsletter:
On Friday 16th of June 2023, we will hold our eighth annual student conference on popular music research organized by the IASPM Benelux at Codarts in Rotterdam. This one-day event will offer a series of panels led and presented by students at all levels of their academic careers. At the end of the day, we will also announce the winners of the Popular Music Thesis Prize 2023, a contest hosted every year by the IASPM Benelux.
We are happy to announce the next POP TALKS with Mark J. Butler (Humboldt University, Berlin), in collabration with AMSTERDANCE.
Date: 9. February, 2023
Place: Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18, 1012 CP Amsterdam, Room 3.01 and
Online: Register HERE for getting the Zoom link.
We are proud to announce the next lecture in our POP TALKS series, with Giacomo Bottà as our special guest:
Learning from the Underground: Crisis, Sustainability and Techno in the Summer of 2020.
December 8th, 2022. 17-18:00 CET
Online (Google Meet). The event is for free, but registration is necessary!
Have you ever thought of the places your degree would take you within the music industry? Interested in the world of music business, but have no idea where to start? Look no further as Your Next Stage, the first student-led music conference will give you the basis you need to kickstart your professional or artistic career in the music industry.
This time, POP TALKS teams up again with The Music Matters at University of Groningen Performance and Lecture series.
Date: 28. Sept 2022
Time: 18-19:30 (CET)
ONLINE
We are proud to present Dr. Charles Kronengold (Stanford University) who will give a talk entitled
"Genres of the 1970s: Big Archives, Close Readings, Medium Sized-Theories"
that will discuss the content of his recently released book Living Genres in Late Modernity (University of California Press).
All are welcome to attend this free online lecture.
Register via email to c.j.tonelli@rug.nl.
