About IASPM
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) is an international organisation established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of Popular Music. Founded in 1981, IASPM has grown into an international network of almost 600 members world-wide. The organisation’s activities include conferences, publications, and research projects designed to advance an understanding of Popular Music and the processes involved in its production and consumption. To build a large and diverse body of knowledge of Popular Music, IASPM is interprofessional and interdisciplinary. It welcomes as members anyone involved with Popular Music. To preserve its autonomy, the association remains independent of all commercial and governmental interests.
The executive committee of IASPM UK and Ireland:
Chair: Mark Percival (Queen Margaret University, Lecturer in Media and Communication)
Membership Secretary/Treasurer: Áine Mangaoang (University of Liverpool)
Newsletter Editor: Simon Poole (Buckinghamshire New University)
Member At Large: Martin Cloonan (University of Glasgow)
Webmaster: Simon Barber (Birmingham City University) (non-Executive)
Membership of IASPM UK and Ireland is staggered according to wage and payment method:
- Waged person by standing order: £21
- Waged person by cheque: £23
- Unwaged person by standing order: £8
- Unwaged person by cheque: £10
The benefits of being an IASPM member:
- 2 UK branch newsletters and 2 online copies of RPM (the international IASPM newsletter) per year.
- Membership of the international IASPM e-mail list, allowing you to contact over a hundred members almost instantaneously. To join the international mailing list, email the Secretary.
- Membership of IASPM UK and Ireland’s branch e-mail list. To join the branch email list, please sign up here.
- Discount on subscriptions to the journal Popular Music. For 2009, the full rate for individual subscribers to this journal is £42 for three copies; the rate with your IASPM reduction is £31. Contact Cambridge University Press Journal Subscriptions, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU; credit cards on 01223 325968, or visit their website.
- Access to UK & Ireland branch and international IASPM conferences and events.
Joining IASPM If you are interested in joining IASPM UK and Ireland, please download the appropriate application form:
- UK application form (payment in Sterling)
- Ireland application form (for payment in Euros)
If you wish to pay your membership fee by standing order, please download one of the following:
- Standing order form (payment in Sterling)
- Standing order form (payment in Euros)
Membership renewal If you are already a member of IASPM UK and Ireland and would like to renew for the forthcoming year, please fill out this form. If you would like us to send you a membership form by post, or have any queries about membership of IASPM UK and Ireland, please contact:
Áine Mangaoang
IASPM UK and Ireland Membership Secretary and Treasurer
c/o Institute of Popular Music
The University of Liverpool
80-86 Bedford St South
Liverpool L69 7WW