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IASPM-SEA (The International Association for the Study of Popular Music – Southeast Asia) is a branch of IASPM dedicated to scholarship in popular music in, from, and around Southeast Asia. Please check out our upcoming 2026 conference with PSN Indonesia in Surakarta above, and our official podcast, news and past conferences below!
Latest News
Calls for papers, conference info, upcoming events and initiatives
SEAnic Solidarities Podcast
Listen to our official podcast, featuring interviews of our members
Past Conferences
See photos and information from our previous conferences
Report on the 5th IASPM-SEA 2025 Conference
August 6-8, 2025 │National Taiwan University by Paul Gabriel L. Cosme The IASPM-SEA 2025 annual conference offered reimaginations of the notions of borders and peripheries in the context of Southeast Asian popular music. Held at the National Taiwan University in Taipei, the conference reconsidered Southeast Asia’s wider region geopolitics by highlighting the position of Taiwan…
2026 Conference Deadline Extension
Dear All, We have been delighted to receive an enthusiastic response so far with the CFP for our upcoming conference with PSN Indonesia, and we’re excited to see even more! Therefore we are now extending the deadline for this CFP submission to March 31, 2026, and look forward to reading your submissions. For those that…
CfP: Regimes, Negotiations, Resistance – Power & Popular Music Studies in Southeast Asia
IASPM SEA x PSN Indonesia 2026 Conference EXTENDED DEADLINE: 31 MARCH 2026 Popular music has been historically positioned and utilized to both reify as well as defy authority. Gen-Z popular culture dominated recent protest movements globally and across Southeast Asia both on and offline. In places such as Indonesia, Timor Leste, Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, and…
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