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Meeting Report| August 27 2020 Conference Report: “The Future of Pop: Big Questions Facing Popular Music Studies in the 21st Century,” AMS Pre-Conference Symposium Brian F. Wright, Brian F. Wright University of North Texas Email: brian.wright@unt.edu Brian F. Wright is assistant professor of music history at the University of North Texas. He holds a Ph.D. in historical musicology from Case Western Reserve University and is a former research assistant for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archive. His current book project, The Bastard Instrument: A Cultural History of the Electric Bass, details the early history of the electric bass in jazz, rock, country, and rhythm & blues, exploring issues such as social stigma, amateur music-making, race, and popular music historiography. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Amy Coddington, Amy Coddington Amherst College Email: acoddington@amherst.edu Amy Coddington is assistant professor of music at Amherst College, where she teaches classes on American popular music. She is working on a book tentatively titled How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Rap, Commercial Radio and American Racial Identity, which explores how rap broke through to a mainstream audience in the late 1980s and early 1990s through programming on commercial radio stations. She recently published a chapter on related matters in The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Studies. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Andrew Mall Andrew Mall Northeastern University Email: a.mall@northeastern.edu Andrew Mall (Ph.D. ethnomusicology, University of Chicago) is assistant professor of music at Northeastern University in Boston, where he teaches courses in ethnomusicology, popular music, and music industry. He is the author of God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music (University of California Press, 2020) and co-editor, with Jeffers Engelhardt and Monique Ingalls, of the volume Studying Congregational Music: Key Issues, Methods, and Theoretical Perspectives (Routledge, forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Popular Music Studies (2020) 32 (3): 27–39. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2020.32.3.27 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brian F. Wright, Amy Coddington, Andrew Mall; Conference Report: “The Future of Pop: Big Questions Facing Popular Music Studies in the 21st Century,” AMS Pre-Conference Symposium. Journal of Popular Music Studies 27 August 2020; 32 (3): 27–39. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2020.32.3.27 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search The study of popular music is, well, popular. It crosses over easily between academic and non-academic audiences, it addresses objects and practices many students are already passionate about, and it is frequently seen within music departments (and other departments in which it takes place) as a driver of enrollments. Popular music scholars also frequently help shape public discourse. Yet while much of the work we do intersects with work by musicians, fans, journalists, filmmakers, podcasters, and others, our existing scholarly systems still do not value engaging with these constituencies. Popular music studies is also an inherently interdisciplinary field and thus as a whole comprises hugely diverse methodological and theoretical orientations, not to mention varied disciplinary and professional expectations. In addition to these specific issues, popular music studies faces the same widespread challenges as academia itself. Higher education’s growing reliance on contingent labor has far-ranging effects on the quality of... You do not currently have access to this content.
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