On Thursday, 20 Jan 2022, 16:00 CET IASPM Benelux is curating the January session of the monthly online research seminar of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM):
We are presenting Amsterdance – The Amsterdam Electronic Dance Music Research Group to the international IASPM community. Join us!
The event will take place ONLINE and REGISTRATION is FREE via Eventbrite.
Despite the challenges that 2021 presented, we were – with your help – able to achieve a number of exciting things. While we had to (with great sadness) cancel the IASPM Benelux conference, “RE-peat, please!”, we were not idle. To keep everyone connected during these socially distanced times we started our new IASPM Pop Talks series. We have also had two new IASPM Benelux/VNPF Popular Music Thesis Prizes winners and we celebrated IASPMS 40th anniversary. For more details, please find our annual newsletter here!
IASPM Benelux is launching its first-ever annual call for a student board member!
We invite (BA and MA) students with a dedication to the study of popular music (incl. jazz, EDM,…) at a university, university college or hogeschool in the Netherlands or Flanders to apply for our one-year board membership program.
For the 6th edition of IASPM BENELUX POP TALKS on DEC 9th (16 - 17:30, online) we are excited to meet MUSIC MATTERS in Groningen and welcome Elizaveta Gaufman and Anatoly Reshetnikov with their lecture entitled: “F*** tha police!” á la russe: Rancière and the metamodernist turn in contemporary Russian music”
The IASPM Benelux and the Vereniging Nederlandse Pop Podia and Festivals (VNPF) invites student applicants to apply for the Bachelors and Masters Popular Music Thesis Prize. This prize honors outstanding research by students (previously enrolled in a university/university of applies science in the Benelux region) writing about popular music. The prize is to award the best-researched and best-written BA and MA thesis on some subject related to popular music.
We welcome you to the 5th edition of IASPM Benelux POP TALKS. This time we will meet Amsterdance – The Amsterdam Electronic Dance Music Research Group again - this time Hillegonda Rietveld will talk about: Spectacular Noise: The Case of Gabber
IASPM BENELUX POP TALKS 4: We are celebrating 40 years of IASPM!
What marked the beginning of international Popular Music Studies as an academic discipline? The most common answer is arguably the “Popular Music Perspectives" conference held at the University of Amsterdam in June 1981 that directly led to the establishment of IASPM. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of this event, IASPM Benelux invites you to the 4th IASPM Pop Talk "40 Years of Popular Music Perspectives", on June 22nd from 17:30 to 19:30.
We welcome you to the 3rd edition of IASPM Benelux POP TALKS. This time we will meet Amsterdance – The Amsterdam Electronic Dance Music Research Group on: April 20th, 15:30-17:00
Beate Peter (Manchester Metropolitan University) will talk about: Experiential Knowledge and Popular Music Historiography
In the context of the new 1-year MA program Popular Music, Sound and Media Cultures the University of Groningen (Dept. for Arts, Culture and Media) has a job opening for an Assistant Professor (UD) in Popular Music (full-time). Application deadline is April 5, 2021.
On 14 May 2021, we will hold our sixth annual student conference on music research for IASPM Benelux. This one-day online event will offer a series of panels led and presented by students at all levels of their academic careers. The keynote lecture for this year's conference will be given by Dr Kyra Gaunt (University of Albany) and is sponsored and organized by the Music Matters at University of Groningen series. At the end of the day, we will also announce the winners of the BA and MA Popular Music Thesis Prize 2020, organized and presented by IASPM Benelux and VNPF.
The second IASPM Benelux Pop Talks will take place online on Wednesday, January 27th from 17:00-19:00 (CET). It is organized in collaboration with Music Matters in Groningen and will be a double book launch event celebrating the release in 2020 of Remixing European Jazz Culture by former IASPM Benelux chair and Popular Music Studies professor at University of Groningen, Dr. Kristin McGee, and Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing by current IASPM Benelux secretary and Popular Music Studies professor at the University of Groningen, Dr. Chris Tonelli.
Over the last 20 years, popular music has featured more prominently in cinemas, notably in the form of music biopics that dramatise the lives and careers of popular musicians across the generic spectrum: from rock and pop to country folk, blues, soul or rhythm and blues. A cursory glance at such biopics as Blinded by the Light (2019), Rocketman (2019), or Ray (2004) testifies to the tonal breadth and vitality of this syncretic genre.
What?: IASPM Benelux Pop Talks 1: (Re-)Connecting Popular Music Studies in Times of Crises
When?: 9 December 2020, 17:00–19:00 (CET)
Where?: online (via Zoom)
How?: please register before 4 December 2020 with Oliver Seibt (F.O.Seibt@uva.nl)
The IASPM Benelux and the Vereniging Nederlandse Pop Podia and Festivals (VNPF) invites student applicants to apply for the Bachelors and Masters Popular Music Thesis Prize. This prize honors outstanding research by students (active in a Dutch university) writing about popular music. The prize is to award the best-researched and best-written BA and MA thesis on some subject related to popular music.
The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic has had a strong impact on the sound of the places we live in, particularly as a consequence of the measures taken to stem the contagion. This conference aims to be a forum for sharing perspectives about sound in the time of pandemic, the modifications of sonic environments and the transformations in sound production/listening behaviors, not only in the musical field, but generally speaking in all human practices which are strongly characterized by sound.
