Grooves and Movements
Ann Arbor/Detroit Michigan: May 26-28, 2022
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music-United States chapter (IASPM-US) invites proposals for its annual conference, which will take place in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan on May 26-28, 2022. We welcome abstracts for individual papers, organized panels, roundtable discussions, and alternative (non-paper) presentations on all aspects of popular music, broadly defined, from any discipline or profession. We especially encourage submissions on the many rich popular music histories of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Detroit. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to normalize virtual connections in local and global settings and to reconfigure physical spaces for social distancing, the present moment calls for an examination of the virtual and physical modalities of music-making. The theme for this year’s conference “Grooves and Movements” intersects with Detroit and its storied place in rhythm and blues, rock, punk, hip-hop, and electronic dance music, and is intended to connect the histories, philosophies, and practices of urban spaces to other historical and global popular music communities.
The theme “Grooves and Movements” also reflects on how music, sound, and dance, can help imagine, shape, and define temporalities in virtual and physical spaces, whether they be a nostalgic past, a future of liberation, an uncertain present, or a break from perceived time. Grooves not only recall the materiality of sound as engraved in vinyl to signal specific eras of musical practice and consumption; it also denotes the synchronicity of multiple bodies and sounds that allow for experiences of time through shared aesthetics (jazz, hip-hop, techno…). Movements help define sound as vibrations that travel and reverberate on human bodies who then interpret them as pitch, timbre, and rhythm, and may in turn move to them in dance. Movements also evoke the political and social movements that music helps advance. Not coincidentally, this year’s conference dovetails with the Movement Electronic Music Festival, an annual event held in Detroit, the city where amidst the urban flight to the suburbs and the economic downturn of the 1980s, Black artists birthed the futuristic sound of Techno. Recently, calls for racial justice in response to police brutality have revived conversations on Afro Pessimism, Black Fugitivity, and Black temporalities, which invite us to consider how grooves and movements may offer tools to conceive a world-in-the-making with new possibilities for minoritized communities. Using the historical, musical, and physical spaces of Detroit and the virtual spaces of the COVID era as starting points, we invite all investigations of popular music that engage with these themes and others to join our conference.
Important: All conference presenters must be IASPM members by the time they register for the conference.
Deadline for proposals: October 15, 2021
Submit proposals via Google Forms using this link.
The form will collect information such as the presenter’s name, institutional affiliation (if any), current email address (required for program decisions and conference communications), current membership status in IASPM, the intention to present in person (encouraged) or virtually, and a 100-word bio.
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