Journal of Popular Music Studies (JPMS)

Journal of Popular Music Studies is the peer-reviewed, quarterly publication of the U.S. Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. The journal’s purview encompasses all genres of music that have been dubbed popular in any geographic region. In addition to mainstream genres such as rock, hip hop, EDM, punk, or country, it explores popular forms ranging from broadsides to Broadway to Bollywood film music. It aims to present popular music scholarship from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including history, sociology, musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and communication. The journal strives to be a forum that places academic inquiry alongside the insights and expertise of critics, journalists, and those in the industry. In addition to research-based scholarly articles and book reviews, we feature contributions on pedagogy; critical assessments of recordings or performances that place them in a wider historical, musical, or cultural context; longform journalistic essays; and roundtable discussions, conference keynote presentations and reports, and methodological and literature reviews that reflect the history or current state of the field. We also regularly publish special issues coordinated by a guest editor or editors on important and emergent themes in popular music studies. The Journal of Popular Music Studies seeks a new associate editor to work on the “Field Notes” section of the journal. Field Notes is a non-peer-reviewed section comprising solicited and pitched essays that associate editors collaboratively curate and oversee. Pieces in this section take up some current aspect of popular music culture and studies--e.g., musical biographies, Black sound, or campus protests, for example.

Journal of Popular Music Studies (JPMS) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Popular Music Studies, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Communication, Music History , Online or Print , Quarterly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 1524-2226, E-ISSN: 1533-1598, Established: 2018, Impact Factor: 0.3
• Provides Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE