International Association for the Study of Popular Music
A multidisciplinary international scholarly association that established popular music as a legitimate field of study, organized through regional branches and a biennial world conference where musicologists, sociologists, and historians meet
Peer societies
Five societies International Association for the Study of Popular Music is read alongside.
PCA
Popular Culture Association
A big tent for anyone who takes the ordinary culture around us seriously enough to study it
SE
Society for Ethnomusicology
A learned society that studies the world's music by both researching it and performing it
SAM
Society for American Music
A scholarly society devoted to the study, teaching, creation, and dissemination of all the musics of the…
AMS
American Musicological Society
A scholarly society advancing the study of music through research, teaching, and public outreach
12 companies named
SMT
Society for Music Theory
The scholarly society of music theory, advancing the discipline as both scholarship and pedagogy through its…
2 companies named
Who backs IASPM
No public supporter list found as of September 2026.
Who backs International Association for the Study of Popular Music's peers, but not International Association for the Study of Popular Music
Companies named publicly by at least one of International Association for the Study of Popular Music's five peer societies, and not found in International Association for the Study of Popular Music's reviewed public records.
| Company | AMS | SMT | Peers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artusi | Named | Named | 2 of 2 |
| A-R Editions | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Auralia & Musition | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Auralia Musition | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Bärenreiter | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Connect For Education | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Eartrainer.io | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| ISD LLC | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| medici.tv | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Palgrave Macmillan | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Routledge | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| The Scholar's Choice | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| W. W. Norton & Company | Named | 1 of 2 |
The outside view
A multidisciplinary international scholarly association that established popular music as a legitimate field of study, organized through regional branches and a biennial world conference where musicologists, sociologists, and historians meet
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Their shape
The Guild
Where mastery is the price of belonging.
The Guild is the keeper of a craft and its standards, where belonging means meeting a real bar. Its gift is depth and trusted expertise, its challenge is opening up to newcomers and new ways.
Also reads toward The League and The Parliament.
Strengths
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