The UR IPM is dedicated to promoting the scholarly study of popular music, among both students and professional scholars, and at The University of Rochester and around the world. The UR IPM brings together an Advisory Board of the top experts in the academic study of popular music to help develop effective means of encouraging and facilitating the highest caliber of research work and teaching in a wide range of popular music repertories. The UR IPM will strive to enrich the study of popular music at the University of Rochester while also working to support the best research work in the many fields that popular music touches, most especially musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, and performance.

Director

John Covach (College Music Department and Eastman School of Music)

Advisory Board Members

Lori Burns (University of Ottawa)
Walter Everett (University of Michigan)
Susan Fast (McMaster University)
Andrew Flory (Carleton College)
Robert Fink (University of California, Los Angele