About the conference

The UTS School of Communication is pleased to host the 2020 International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Australia and New Zealand branch (IASPM-ANZ) conference.

The conference aims to provoke discussion and debate on hierarchies within popular music. These hierarchies might exist within and between popular music genres and be experienced by artists, audiences and scholars. We refer to these hierarchies as ‘scales’ which can be interpreted in a number of different ways. Scales can refer to the construction of music, or it can mean scales of class, genre, taste and so on.

This three-day conference will run from December 7-9th, 2020 at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia which is situated in a vibrant creative quarter of the city, close to the CBD. The conference will include individual papers and panel sessions, keynote speakers and popular-music themed social events.

Conference organising committee:

Please send enquiries to:
 iaspm2020@uts.edu.au

Call for papers - submissions for individual papers and panel proposals are now open

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.