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Pop Conference 2026

March 12, 2026 / Los Angeles, CA

We are excited to celebrate authors, editors, and friends of the Press virtually for the PopCon 2026 annual conference!

Below, browse our new and forthcoming titles in popular music. Or, browse our complete list of books and journals in the field. If you are looking to connect with any of our editors about your book project, see our editors’ specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our submissions guidelines and submission portal.

Use coupon code POPCON26 to save 40% on books and journal issues when you order on our website through April 23, 2026. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Mare Nostrum Group.

Customers in Canada can order through the University of Toronto Press.

Cover of Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign features David Bowie on the left and Prince on the right. Between the two artists the title is written in a bold sans serif font in a gradient fading from orange to pink to purple.
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign

The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince

Daphne A. Brooks, editor

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The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it
P FKN R

How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance

Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

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Cover of Fernando is a square shape and features an abstract pattern of black and blue kaleidescopic flowers.
Fernando

A Song by ABBA

Kay Dickinson

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Cover of Under Pressure is a square shape and features an abstract pattern of black and yellow stripes that spiral and distort from an off-page radius.
Under Pressure

A Song by David Bowie and Queen

Max Brzezinski

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Cover of Ne me quitte pas is a square shape and features an abstract pattern of black and turquoise shapes that somewhat resemble music notes.
Ne me quitte pas

A Song by Jacques Brel and Interpreted by Nina Simone and Others

Maya Angela Smith

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Made in NuYoRico cover image
Made in NuYoRico

Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings

Marisol Negrón

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Alive in the Sound

Black Music as Counterhistory

Ronald Radano

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Cover of The Disturbing Profane features an abstract pattern of black circles against a white background. Roughly half of the circles have a solid fill, leaving little of the white background visible. The other circles have a brushstroke-like texture
The Disturbing Profane

Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred

Joseph R. Winters

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The Aesthetic Character of Blackness cover image
The Aesthetic Character of Blackness

Sounds Like Us

Jemma DeCristo

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Fantasies of Nina Simone

Jordan Alexander Stein

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Cover of Bangkok after Dark features a blue-filtered photograph of Maurice Rocco in performance at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok.
Bangkok after Dark

Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies

Benjamin Tausig

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Bangtan Remixed

A Critical BTS Reader

Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen, and Yutian Wong, editors

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Out of Sync

Ventriloquism in Popular Media from Vinyl to TikTok

Sarah Rebecca Kessler

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Wild Tongue

A Borderlands Mixtape

Jonathan Leal

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Cover of Dreams in Double Time is a black and white photo of the face and trumpets of two trumpet players. The leftmost wears glasses and the other player stands closely next to him, with his eyes in shadow.
Dreams in Double Time

On Race, Freedom, and Bebop

Jonathan Leal

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Making Value

Music, Capital, and the Social

Timothy D. Taylor

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At the Vanguard of Vinyl

A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz

Darren Mueller

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