Society for Popular Music Research
The Society for Popular Music Research eV (GfPM) is a registered non-profit association to which over 200 scientists and students from German-speaking countries belong to exchange ideas about music and cultural studies, music education, sociological, media and communication studies and other aspects of popular music . According to the statutes, the tasks of the association, which was founded in 1984, consist primarily of organizing conferences and symposia, promoting young people in popular music research, stimulating and carrying out scientific research and organizing the exchange of information. The GfPM supports subject-specific and interdisciplinary research projects and works together with other scientific and cultural associations and institutions. A key conference on a current topic is held annually in autumn. Before it was renamed in 2014, the association was called Arbeitskreis Studium Popular Musik eV (ASPM).
Publications
The GfPM is currently publishing the series “Contributions to Popular Music Research ” ( ISSN 0943-9242 ) and “Texts on Popular Music” ( ZDB ID 2277720-9 ). The “contributions” essentially document the results of the respective conferences, while the “texts” series contain anthologies and larger research papers. All publications are published by the Bielefeld Transcript Verlag . In addition, the GfPM operates the online magazine Samples, in which short articles, reviews and conference reports are published.
Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board
The company's management board currently consists of Ralf von Appen and André Doehring as well as the managing director Peter Klose. Members of the scientific advisory board are Michael Ahlers, Christa Bruckner-Haring, Jonas Menze, Melanie Ptatscheck and Melanie Schiller.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ organs of GFPM , gfpm-samples.de. Retrieved February 20, 2014.