The International Association for the Study of Popular Music (abbreviated IASPM) is an international

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dedicated to the scholarly study of

popular music Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training.Popular Music. (2015). ''Fun ...

. It was established in September 1981, with

Charles Hamm Charles Edward Hamm (April 21, 1925 – October 16, 2011) was an American musicologist, writer, composer, and music educator. He is credited with being the first music historian to seriously study and write about American popular music. He al ...

and

Simon Frith Simon Webster Frith (born 1946) is a British sociomusicologist and former rock critic who specializes in popular music culture. He is Tovey Chair of Music at University of Edinburgh. Career As a student, he read PPE at Oxford and earned a ...

as two of its founding members. By 1988, it had members in over 30 countries. Since 2002, its official headquarters has been at the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

's Institute of Popular Music, which is also the repository for the Association's archived materials. The ''Journal of Popular Music Studies'', published by the

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, is the official journal of the Association's United States branch (abbreviated IASPM-US). It also published the ''IASPM Journal''.

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* Musicology Study of Popular Music Organizations established in 1981 International music organizations {{Music-org-stub