Center for Popular Music
The String Band Summit
February 27–March 1, 2025
Proposals now being accepted! Click here: String Band Summit 2025
The Center for Popular Music is pleased to announce the new cycle of the Macon-Doubler Travel Grant Program, with generous funding from the Macon-Doubler Fellowship. The grant program will provide $1,000 to support travel by an eligible researcher to visit the Center for Popular Music on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to conduct original research using the Center’s Uncle Dave Macon Collection, Uncle Dave Macon Days Collection, and any related materials in the Center’s archival holdings.
Application deadline: February 1, 2025
More information, including application guidelines, at this link: Macon-Doubler Travel Grant
Ann Powers: Traveling on the Path of Joni Mitchell
The Center for Popular Music welcomed award-winning NPR Music critic Ann Powers to discuss her new book on Joni Mitchell with CPM Director (and longtime Mitchell fan) Dr. Greg Reish.
In the decade she has worked with NPR, Powers has written extensively on music and culture, appeared regularly on the All Songs Considered podcast, and news shows including All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Her previous books include a memoir, Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America (2000), Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music (2017), and Piece by Piece (2005) with Tori Amos.
Lydia Lunch
2022 Recipient of the CPM Fellows Award
The most recent recipient of the CPM Fellows Award is the legendary and iconic performing artist Lydia Lunch. The CPM Fellows Award is our most distinguished and prestigious honor. For more information, click below for the MTSU News story about these exciting events.
Center for Popular Music Fellow Lunch “forged her own path”
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