IASPM-ANZ 2023 Conference - Diversity in Popular Music

Popular music has long existed as a space for the sharing and fostering of marginalised voices and stories, despite its equal position as a hegemonic economic and cultural tool of capitalism and Western imperialism. Papers explore topics on popular music and popular music studies that consider or celebrate aspects of non-mainstream politics, identities, creatives and practices; as well as interrogating the power structures related to our field that emerge from patriarchal white, cisgender, heterosexual and ableist ideologies and values. Special attention is given to papers connected with indigenous studies, gender and queer studies, disability studies and colonialism in relation to popular music consumption, production and people.

This year’s IASPM-ANZ conference is being hosted by both the University of Auckland and Wintec | Te Pūkenga. The conference will begin with a welcome event at the University of Auckland campus in Tāmaki-Makaurau on Tuesday 5 December before collectively moving south later that day to Kirikiriroa for the main conference activities from Wednesday 6th December, 2023.