This panel considers a range of topics related to popular music defined and considered broadly. Though not limited to such inquiries, papers might address questions such as

· How do we see cultural forces at work in the inspiration of popular musical songs, albums, tours, artists, texts, and memes?

· How has popular music influenced, supported, challenged, and otherwise complicated cultural practices, beliefs, and norms?

· Where and how do we see the gravity of popular music extended to the domain of other arts and media?

· How does popular music manifest the intertextual and intersectional realities of (post)modern life?

Panelists might wish to focus more specifically on the efforts and effects of the aim of music to both translate human experience into aurality and employ music to generate and enrich human experience.