The Annual PMSSEM David Sanjek Lecture

PMSSEM hosts a distinguished guest speaker to deliver the PMSSEM Lecture each year as part of the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. The Lecturer is selected by the Lecture Committee based on nominations from the PMSSEM membership.

2016

praCh, Khmer-American rapper and educator

"Art of praCh"

2015

Lenny Kaye, writer, musician, and producer

"Planetary Perspectives: Pop Music as Viewed from a Distant Galaxy"

2014

Greg Tate, writer, musician, and producer

"Justice For Mike Brown vs The Silence of the Lambs, or Why Black Popular Kulcha's Current Elite are Too Sold-out, Skeered and Glitch-assed to Soundtrack the Revolution in Ferguson, Mo."

2013

Elijah Wald, musician and author

"How the Smart Kids Study Popular Music, or Why Are There No Papers on Katy Perry?"

2012

Ann Powers, NPR Music

"Creole Songs and English Dances: Why Rock and Roll Was Really Born in New Orleans in 1805"

2011

Alice Echols, University of Southern California

"You Gotta Move: Making Bodies Matter"

2010

Maureen Mahon, New York University

"Searching for Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton: Race and Gender in the Rock and Roll Archives"

2007

Barry Shank

"The Political Agency of Music"

2006

Toru Mitsui

"When the Production of Hit Songs Began in Japan: Musical Hybridization, Technological Innovation and the Expansion of the Recording Industry in the Late 1920s"

2005

Paul Théberge, Canada Research Chair, Carleton University

"Extending the Mix: Technology, Ethnography, and Popular Music."

2004

Juan-Pablo González, Catholic University of Chile

"Popular Musicology in Latin America: Folklore, Industry,and Nation."

2003

Sara Cohen, University of Liverpool

"Popular Music, Heritage, and Urban Regeneration."

2002

Deena Weinstein, DePaul University

"Processes of Diffusion and Reception in Global Popular Musics: The Case of Heavy Metal."

Members of PMSSEM are invited to suggest to the Lecture Committee nominees for the PMSSEM Lecture.