The Florida A&M University Institute for Research in Music and Entertainment Industry Studies (IRMEIS) was created to assess the current and future state of popular music in America through the development of innovative student-centered programming and research. The institute’s research and academic arm focuses on popular music in its historical, cultural, and aesthetic domains and its linkages to other artistic forms of representation. While the institute promotes scholarly inquiry in all world musics, its core research centers on Black popular music of the Americas.
DCU Number: 30.0220