EMP Pop Conference 2015

Hey if any of you are still going to be in town on Monday 4/20 and want to hang out, I'm meeting up with some of the Seattle ILXors at Nine Lb Hammer at 7 p.m. I'm in town for work from Friday through Tuesday, but can't make any of the EMP stuff unfortunately.

I'm over some part of Montana right now. Maura is over whatever part of Montana is 14 rows further west of my part.

after many false starts I am on a plane hopefully arriving in Seattle sometime before the apocalypse

Booked a room at Seattle's Best Karaoke for tomorrow night. 9 to ??
$5.50 per person, per hour.
BYOB

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Great running into NA briefly! Sorry we couldn't chat more!

I'm gonna eventually make my way to Kremwerk across the street from Seattle's best karaoke for the queer hiphop night there, so that's a thing going on tonight too.

Huh I have a work dinner not too far from the karaoke place, maybe I'll swing by if I'm not too exhausted.

I knew I would somehow run into Ned and it happened.

that is the definition of ned in the dictionary

True. Even before the parts about pi and the purple tie.

Sounds about right.

see just like that

that karaoke was the absolute best

Gahhhh, so much fun!!

That Memphis rap and more panel description on twitter sounds like it was fun

@TyinaSteptoe with "'Big Mama’s Shuffle’: Willie Mae Thornton and Female Masculinity”

the lavender scare of the 50s. "Homophobia literally changes blues music in the 50s" #EMPPopCon

maura, cmolanphy & useful_noise discuss Beatles-related weirdness

"[Alberta Hunter] was a liar. A beautiful liar. And this makes tracking down her story all the more fun

talk on Dirty South hip-hop's preoccupation with violence visited upon black bodies & grotesque aftermath

discussing Kendrick/D'Angelo records w/r/t how gender plays into their polyvocality

So Will Hermes is writing a book on Lou Reed

Lester Bangs panel. Of course

I bet DJ Soul Sister from N'awlins talking about Teena Marie was great

David Byrne, Divine, Suicide,

So Will Hermes is writing a book on Lou Reed
― curmudgeon, Sunday, April 19, 2015 3:28 PM (25 minutes ago)

Meant to say: this is news to you?

Yep. Though does not surprise me

This sounded interesting too

Gayle Wald comparing the white license of The Who destroying instruments versus the politics of Kirk & Hendrix burning

I had a great time!

That was a long too-short intense non-stop blast of awesomeness. Massive thanks to everybody who made it possible, organized it, spoke, listened, lurked or whatever.

Enjoyed being a fly on the wall of this thread about as much as on the London ILB FAP thread.

Wait so was karaoke last night? I thought it was tonight.

Seems like I missed it. Oh well.

Here's the talk-script from my Sunday morning talk-plus-clip-blasting about searching for a philosophical agenda in nominally Satanic heavy metal:

http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=437

I bet DJ Soul Sister from N'awlins talking about Teena Marie was great

Can confirm.

will hermes is a really good dude and a great writer (loved "buildings on fire," loved his lou panel, really looking fwd to the lou book). i was initially nervous about stepping on his toes by pitching a paper about lou, but it turned out he invited me to be on his panel and was very encouraging.

That K-pop influenced by Missy Elliot presentation sounded impressive based on tweets, and the various Aretha ones including from author David Ritz did too

My twitter feed about this made me extremely envious of anyone in attendence. Next year, I'll have to make it out. It's been years since I left academia and attended conferences but this seemed really cool.

my paper, if you'd like:

http://jodybethrosen.com/2015/04/14/and-then-the-colored-girls-they-walk-over-lou-reed-works-blue-on-live-take-no-prisoners/

for anyone who was there: i am so so so sorry and mortified by the tech problems i had. i had gotten this strong sense beforehand that i was going to experience some glitches but i didn't anticipate how glitchy it would actually be. i was just trying to run powerpoint from a bog-standard hp pavilion laptop and a couple of sound clips from an iphone 6. no reason why that shouldn't have worked. next year if i'm accepted again i'll just read the paper with no accompaniments.

it was almost funny: the audio cable kept popping out of my phone's headphone jack while i was trying to play music on it! the projector screen kept going blank. lou must have been watching, trying to will this thing into nonexistence.

I wanna talk to the shade of Lou Reed, man, he through a cup at his Jody.

I guess someone should start a 2016 thread

http://www.empmuseum.org/programs-plus-education/programs/pop-conference.aspx?from=pe

EMP POP CONFERENCE 2016
APRIL 14-17, 2016 AT EMP MUSEUM

From a Whisper to a Scream: The Voice in Music

The EMP Pop Conference returns with its biggest roster of presentations yet, looking at the ways music lets us hear voices: singers, to be sure, whether virtuosos or idiosyncratic originals, but also other types of vocalizing. How do instrumentalists insert their selves into their music? When the dominant voices in our songs change, what changes with that, from personal identity to collective messages? A switch in voice—from croon to rasp to rap to Auto-Tune—alters everything it reaches.

In dozens of panels, all free to the public (though we strongly recommend advance registration), we’ll explore musical voices across genre and time period: soul singers and rock singers, singers of exotica and Mexi-Cajun blues. Panels on goth-punk wailer Siouxsie Sioux, warbling rapper Future, and pop-rock duo Hall & Oates. Synthetic “vocaloids” and challenges to female decorum. Singing across lines of color. Good bad singing and bad good singing. Vocal coaching. Southern accents.

Follow the links on this page for more information about each session, including the biographies of presenters, summaries of talks and roundtables, and details on how to pre-register and have an entrance badge waiting for you when you arrive. We look forward to seeing you at the Pop Conference!

Eric Weisbard
Pop Conference organizer
University of Alabama

see y'all there. Come say hi and buy me a drink after my presentation.

Hall and Oates...nice

I already have trips planned for the beginning and end of May, otherwise I would try to go to this.

New thread? Done and done.

EMP Pop Conference 2016