IASPM Benelux invites student applicants to apply for the Bachelors and Masters Popular Music Thesis Prize. This prize honors outstanding research by students (previously enrolled in a university/university of applies science in the Benelux region) writing about popular music. The prize is awarded to the best-researched and best-written BA and MA thesis on some subject related to popular music.

We invite (BA and MA) students with a dedication to the study of popular music (incl. jazz, EDM,…) at a university, university college or hogeschool in the Netherlands, Flanders or Luxemburg to apply for our one-year board membership program.

We are happy to announce the upcoming POP TALK 15: We are celebrating the Open Access publication of Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe edited by Mario Dunkel and Melanie Schiller on November 11 (16-17 CET).

We are pleased to invite you to attend the ERASMUS+ (Music4Change) funded International School Sustainable Cities and Cultures of Music from November 5-8, 2024 at the University of Groningen.

IASPM Benelux is organizing a symposium at Radboud University: "From Hinterland to Europapa: Identity and Placemaking in Dutch Popular Music Culture on October 25th (in collaboration with The Research School for Media Studies and The Radboud Institute for Culture & History (RICH).  

It is with great please that we are able to announce this year’s program and keynote speaker for the upcoming 9th IASPM Benelux Student Conference, organized with our partners from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (HKU) in Utrecht!