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POP MUSIC, FASHION & STYLE AT THE EDGE

POPCON 2025 | MARCH 13 - 15

The 2025 PopCon/IASPM-US Joint Conference invites proposals that listen with intensity to the frequencies of creative rebellion, agitation, or revolt as they intersect with the edges of pop music, style, and fashion. We welcome presentations that explore how style offers a new version, a remix, or an edit of the world we live in and the realities, struggles, and contingencies we face, leading us on a journey toward the edge of what’s to come.  

Traditional papers, panels and roundtable discussions are eligible, but in PopCon spirit we are especially interested in unusual, self-contained, lo-fi experimental presentations; interventions, performances, critical listening sessions, collaborative workshops or demonstrations; and other non-traditional experiments in presentation format. Proposals are accepted through November 15, 2024.

Conference Partners

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IASPM-US 

IASPM-US is an interdisciplinary and inter-professional organization that represents the United States branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. 

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POPCON 

PopCon is the premier music writing and popular music studies conference, bringing together the world’s leading scholars, journalists, writers and musicians for over two decades.

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USC THORNTON

The University of Southern California Thornton School of Music is proud to host the upcoming PopCon 2025 conference at its campus in the heart of Los Angeles.

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