Institute of Popular Music (IPM)

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The Institute of Popular Music (IPM) was established in 1988 as the first specialist centre for the study of popular music in the world. Its research is interdisciplinary and examines popular music from various perspectives, exploring the contexts and processes involved in its production and consumption. The IPM is closely connected with Liverpool and the wider Merseyside region and has contributed to the city's successful bid to become a UNESCO City of Music. It collaborates with various Liverpool-based organizations, such as National Museums Liverpool, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, and Liverpool Sound City, as well as universities in the UK and beyond.

The IPM is located within the Department of Music at the University of Liverpool, and its staff is involved in popular music studies to varying degrees. The University's Popular Music Archive, which was gifted to the IPM over the years, provides a significant and wide-ranging research resource. The IPM is also the official office and archive of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), an organization established to promote scholarship in the area of popular music. The IPM researchers have regularly served on IASPM executive and branch committees.

The IPM has collaborated with National Museums Liverpool on a range of projects since its founding. Additionally, it is a partner for Ageing, Communication, Technology (ACT), a major interdisciplinary and multi-methodological research project that brings together researchers and institutional and community partners to address the transformation of the experiences of ageing with the proliferation of new forms of mediated communications in networked societies.

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Founding year

1988

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University of Liverpool
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