Vortragsreihe: IASPM-US, Journal of Popular Music Studies & the Pop Conference Book series on-line
The combined forces of IASPM-US, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and the Pop Conference are putting on a book series via Zoom, starting next week. Here's the line-up: email Eric Weisbard <eric.weisbard @ GMAIL.COM> if you want to receive a link, updates, and advance material.
http://iaspm-us.net/journal-of-popular-music-studies/books-in-process-series/
Calendar of Events
Time for each event: Tuesdays, 5 pm ET, 2 pm PT, unless specified
--June 23: Special Topic: Musical Biography
Shana Redmond, Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson, Duke University Press and Gustavus Stadler, Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life, Beacon Press
Email to eric.weisbard @ GMAIL.COM to receive an invite.
--June 30: Faith Pennick, D’Angelo’s Voodoo, Bloomsbury 33 1/3 series
--July 7: RJ Smith, You Never Can Tell: Chuck Berry in Our Life and Times, work in progress, Da Capo Press
--July 14: Xavier Livermon, Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Duke University Press
--July 21: Special Topic: Music Scenes
Grace Elizabeth Hale, Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture, University of North Carolina Press and Jonny Dovercourt, Any Night of the Week: A D.I.Y. History of Toronto Music, 1957-2001, Coach House Books
--July 28: David Grubbs, The Voice in the Headphones, Duke University Press
--August 4: Alisha Lola Jones, Flaming? The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance, Oxford
--August 11: Special Topic: Teaching Popular Music
Eric Charry, A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B Through the Early 1990s, Wesleyan University Press, and Rebecca Rinsema, Popular Music and Meaning in the Classroom, book in progress, Routledge
--August 18: Emily J. Lordi, The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s, Duke University Press
--August 25: Maria Sherman, Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS, Black Dog & Leventhal
--September 1: Ashley Kahn, editor, George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters, Chicago Review Press
--September 8: Alex Ross, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
--September 15, Martha Gonzalez, Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles, University of Texas Press
-- September 22, Special Topic: Country Music History
Peter La Chapelle, I’d Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly and Country Music, University of Chicago Press, and Stephanie Vander Wel, Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls: Women’s Country Music, 1930-1960, University of Illinois Press
--September 29, Ann Powers, Approaching Joni Mitchell, book in progress, Dey Street Books
--October 6, Franklin Bruno, The Inside of the Tune: The Bridge in Pop from “St. Louis Blues” to “Single Ladies,” book in progress, Wesleyan University Press
--October 13, Matthew J. Jones, Love Don’t Need a Reason: The Life and Music of Michael Callen, Punctum Books, and Popular Music-Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981-1996, book in progress, Routledge
--October 20, Lauron Kehrer, Queer Voices in Hip-Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance, book in progress, University of Michigan Press
--October 27, Maureen Mahon, Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll, Duke University Press
--November 3, Maya Angela Smith, Reclaiming Venus: The Many Lives of Alvenia Bridges, book in progress
--November 10, 4PM ET, Joshua S. Duchan and Ryan Raul Bañagale, eds., with Don Traut and
Kathryn Metz, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”: Billy Joel and Popular Music Studies,
Lexington Books
--November 17: Kyra Gaunt, Twerking at the Intersection: Collapsing Music, Monetization, and Violence Against Girls on YouTube, book in progress
--November 24, Joanna Love, Turf Wars: Popular Music and Political Resistance at America’s Super Bowl, book in progress
--December 1, Larisa Mann, Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright and Colonial Power, book in progress, University of North Carolina Press
--December 8, Kimberly Mack, Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White, University of Massachusetts Press
--December 15, Michaelangelo Matos, Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year, Hachette Books