EMP Pop Conference 2011

i've never been to california. that's kinda why i wanted to come. and the kids have never been either. should be fun.

It'll be great -- how long are you planning on staying out for? Just the conference itself or longer? (And are the kids asking for Disneyland and/or anything similar?)

SHHHH...they don't know what to expect. we will have to plan stuff for them and maria to do. they obviously can't stay at the EMP thing the whole time. we're gonna see if maria's mom and brother can come down from oregon and seattle too. make a weekend of it.

my time in seattle that time was so perfectly perfect in every way that i kinda never wanted to try and duplicate it. but this way i don't have to! its a completely different place and will have a completely different vibe. i'm sort of weird that way...

Cool. There's plenty to do that'll keep 'em busy! Will drop a separate line later.

For anyone flying in, LAX, while a rat's nest in many forms, is pretty much where to go rather than any regional airport if only because it's a fairly short freeway hop along the 405 from LAX to UCLA, especially if you need to get out on Sunday in good time to be back home/at work on Monday. If you're staying with anyone in the Valley, though, definitely consider Burbank/Bob Hope as an option. That said, I know there's a lot of road work planned on the 405 north of UCLA so that could be a bugbear...get bent/Elvis/omar/Jeff/admrl/everyone else to thread.

I'm in.

just try not to hit me if you see me around.

wtfever

Haven't been around these parts in a little while! I'm in. Looking forward to the research and the writing, but looking forward more to the seeing you all there.

"wtfever"

my fave chillwave band!

Schedule is up!

http://www.empsfm.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26&ccID=126

A slightly rejigged time format, starts midafternoon on Friday and runs through 6 pm Sunday.

This looks so, so good and I so, so can't go. For reasons having entirely to do with... money.

can't wait

Carl Wilson's looks predictably excellent.

This is the first one I'm missing since the second ever conference in 2004. I'm unemployed without benefits, also see Pete's reason.

Would love to see the pieces by Tim Quirk and Tom Kipp and Andy Zax alone, but this whole thing looks great.

i'm in this, which means i need to find some money somewhere. of course it's the first one not to be a $60 train ride from my city. still, v. excited.

So glad this is in my hometown now... looking forward to attending for the first time.

It will be such an amazing treat to have this locally. Also we need to persuade all the best food trucks to come to UCLA on that weekend or something.

Still think this whole thing should be webcast--it seriously would be my TV for a month. And I hear there are people with cameras in Los Angeles.

I'm already hoping to change the title, but here's the abstract of my paper:

http://www.empsfm.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26&ccID=127&xPopConfBioID=1466&year=2011

Oh so that's who you are! (I never wanted to flat out ask, y'see. Thought it would be rude.)

Hah, I wouldn't have minded, but then my username is pretty arcane/ridiculous...

Think this has more stuff than earlier schedule posted upthread (thee CLE contingent, for inst)
http://tinyurl.com/64r37ls

Will also selfishly say this is happening a couple of days before my fortieth birthday so I have half a mind to turn any Saturday night get-together into a pre-birthday bash.

okay, this is new. my biggest fan wasn't moderating before:

>> Hunting for Records
Venue: Royce Hall, UCLA
Moderated by: Greil Marcus
Featuring:
John Shaw, "Tune Thieving on the Popular Front"
David Grubbs, "'Remove the Records from Texas': Parsing Online Archives"
Scott Seward, "Ebay, Light Of My Life, Fire Of My Loins, My Sin, My Soul – The Confessions of a Record Dealer, The New Vinyl Renaissance, the Impossibility of Supplying the Demand for Old Led Zeppelin Records, and the Essential Human Need for Objects"

damn, better rite something good now.

A bigger fan than us?!

The preface to Marooned says it all!

http://books.google.com/books?id=FhGhMWOQk-MC&lpg=PP1&dq=marooned&pg=PR10#v=onepage&q&f=false

Page x

so rock critiky. the squirrel bait dude. the dylan dude. the whatever i am. rock on. squirrel bait made me appreciate phil ochs more.

and now--phil ochs IS squirrel bait!

Playing in heaven with Ned Raggett's All-Squirrel Band.

Could happen.

Word.Furry Fans sing along with me: "Cheep cheep, Unca Ned!"

Argh, my panel was moved to the same timeslot as the Big Payback one.

i want a Marooned sequel. Phil should rally the troops and have them put new shit up on the blog, if you ask me. money? bah! fuck money!

any Saturday night get-together into a pre-birthday bash

Double sad now I can't be there this year

http://media.cakecentral.com/gallery/754886/normal_1285684914.JPG

exact replica of the cake i am getting ned, by the way.

I suppose I should go to this, what with it being literally right up the road from me.

I approve of this cake. And damned right you should go, Jeff. I'm staying with a couple of friends nearby for the weekend.

Seems like there should be anthologies of EMP papers...

Annual series, dammit.

There actually have been two collections so far!

I only just realized yesterday how many panels and presentations I'll inevitably miss. Triple and quadruple booking is busy enough, but quintuple, dang. My notes this year will be even more of a brief impression of the whole than ever.

don, the thing i read in seattle at the conference is gonna be in the emp book coming out this year. duke university press. i don't know when its coming out though.

Just dropping in to make sure you all know that the Thursday before EMP, a bunch of the folks from the EMP proceedings will be doing the pop/gender/sexuality/professionalism conference Work It! at USC. Details here: http://workitconference.blogspot.com/

It's free, there's lunch, and it is going to help frame some of the discussions that go on all weekend. Hope some ILX folks come.

Best-DaphC.

Is there an archive of any of these papers available to read online? I wish these presentations were filmed and available to view afterwards.

They've tried to make archives before, but there's no one central deposit of them. So many people end up using the work for freelance or scholarly articles or even books, it would be hard, I imagine, to have such an archive.

The presentations from last year's conference are going up on iTunes U shortly -- I know this having received a note about it earlier this year. But mine was already long up on YouTube so hey.

And heya there Daphne! Won't be able to make Thursday, sadly, but anyone else who can go really should do so!

Hi there! Much thanks for the compliments, too kind. And yeah, Amoeba's lack of bathroom = argh. (But there's a couple of nearby spots either direction on Sunset.)

I am about to disgust all of you.

So, Flavorwire has their take on the conference up.

And it includes...THE ROD STEWART PHOTO.

Those of us at Tom Kipp's presentation know.

And now...you do:

http://flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/rod-stewart.jpg

http://www.scott-photo.com/Events/2011-EMP-Pop-Music-Conference/15994340_ZZY79#1204432508_Lpu8b-A-LB

i am in the middle background of this, holding a glass of wine, in the red shirt with the giant yellow "THERE'S PARAMORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM" letters (unreadable here). i don't know what i'm doing but it appears to be in the neighborhood of a harangue.

Looks like you're telling off Ian Mathers, you horrible man. (I could be wrong.)

"I said cheddar, not Stilton!"

And another review:

http://superbon.net/?p=1761

yeah, that's ian. alfred probably has the right of it.

Anyone know what the timeframe is before the panels show up on iTunes?

only ned would know the answer to that and i don't think he knows the answer to that.

And indeed, I don't.

Tim Quirk's presentation now posted.

Really liked his presentation, and the conversation with Ben Lee from the same panel.

forgot to come back to this thread to self-advertise! here's the written version of mine: http://nickyswhat.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/what-a-convenient-world-russian-music-in-the-era-of-big-money/

posted my paper on my blog. if you are curious(yellow):

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-2011-emp-pop-conference-paper.html

was in the audience for that. laughed hard.

Turns out a slew of the presentations have gone live on iTunes *much* more quickly than I was anticipating:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/2011-emp-pop-conference-at/id431416241

(No Kiss panel, though? So sad.)

Finally got around to posting a print version of my 2011 paper:

http://backtotheworld.net/2011/06/02/enjoined-joy-gross-national-happiness-and-pop-music-in-bhutan/

100.

Does Daddino post here anymore?

No.

the fact that you're counting down each of your new posts makes me worry that something like the premise of that Eddie Murphy movie A Thousand Words is happening here