Featured Panelists:
Daphne Brooks – Princeton University (English)
Alice Echols – University of Southern California (History)
Mark Katz – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Musicology)
Roberto Avant-Mier – University of Texas, El Paso (Communication/Media Studies)

Scholars of popular music often find themselves in curious, even solitary, positions. Rarely is our home a devoted department in popular music studies; instead, almost all of us are housed in other disciplines, whether it be sociology, media studies, anthropology, musicology or ethnomusicology, history, or English. Moreover, while an interest in popular music often draws us to others who share our passion, the enormity and diversity of that category ensures that we may not always have so much in common with them in terms of object, method, or perspective. In keeping with its 2013 conference theme Liminality & Borderlands, IASPM has invited four panelists, representing four different disciplines, to consider both the challenges and the opportunities of the inherent interdisciplinarity of popular music studies.

For more information on how to register, visit http://iaspm-us.net/conferences/ or contact devon.powers@drexel.edu