The Norman Lear Center: Populat Music Project (USC)"The Popular Music Project (PMP) is a one-stop home for the interdisciplinary study and analysis of popular music. Bringing together faculty and students from across the University of Southern California (USC) campus with musicians, critics, and industry innovators, the PMP takes pop music seriously as an object of sustained critical inquiry through a mix of public events, research projects, listening lunches, course development, podcasts, publications, databases, blogs and Los Angeles campus residencies. The project’s goal is to treat the making of pop music as a key site for education and pedagogy and for re-thinking questions of society, culture, history, and communication."