EMP Pop Conference 2011

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!

Oh cool re: the iTunes U thing, but they didn't ask your permission to record the talks first? Hmm. I wonder if they'll do it this year, since the change in venue is bound to cause some chaos.

And, hi Ned! And ILM. I'm usually lurching, sorry. It's BMW season so I shouldn't be doing anything else but work work work.

they didn't ask your permission to record the talks first?

Oh they did, and specifically referred to that in the note to me; I remember signing the release. So if someone didn't sign theirs presumably it won't go up.

Btw, I will be in attendance for this.

:-D

glad this is on a weekend, i will make some of it at least

Just a quick note that a slew of the 2010 presentations are now live on iTunesU.

http://bit.ly/eCug4u

And of course looking forward to seeing everyone next week! I'm planning on being at UCLA pretty much early Friday afternoon.

Can only go on Sunday, but going nonetheless. Thank goodness I live near UCLA so it would be easy for me to get there. Looking forward to it.

would love to go but i have a friend in town this weekend :(

I know what it means to party like a rockstar, but what does it mean to party like a music critic?

The drink level is about the same from what I can tell.

Presumably there are less groupies.

But critics have Twitter!

I assume it's a lot like this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/15/18909607_ee51edc31d.jpg?v=0

Speaking from experience:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/2007_Pop_Conf_afterparty_03.jpg/800px-2007_Pop_Conf_afterparty_03.jpg

Rock critics live blog their encounters with groupies.

so gonna happen

oh yeah, and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6bARIaMhCM

just look over your shoulder

Hey, that's my beret between Ned and the Dean!

Guess that makes you Lucky... ah never mind.

My most vivid memory from last year's final-night party was the weird yet adorable painting of a chubby Hispanic boy hanging over the bar. The guy there said it has its own Facebook group.

i am sitting just behind alfred's beret in that picture, i think.

^ Thanks Ned for the Itunes link! Cool pic with the Dean.

Holy crap, there's a ton of these talks! Any highlights?

writing my thing! it's fun! now if i can just remember how long these things are supposed to be... how many words do humans speak in a minute?

you don't want to go over 17 minutes/20 minutes at the absolute outer edge. So practice reading your writing aloud SLOWLY and see how many pages-per-minute you're at. It varies. One conference "pro tip" (jk): it can help to write a conference talk with a 'detachable tail', i.e. a possible ending that is three pages before your "real"/ideal ending- if things are running late, you can have this option as a way to get your primary point in but not go rudely past your time. Etiquette about overspill at conferences is crucial.

What the tune just said. Lord knows I rehearsed and refined mine quite a few times to make sure I got within the limit.

when i did the emp thing in 2007 i had to skip a section toward the end cuzza time but it worked out pretty good! it was totally skippable.

the thing i'm writing now, man, i could go forever. so i'll have to be good and prune stuff.

drew, have you done one of these? the emp conference thing? too bad you are on the other side of the country now. would be cool if you could come.

The best piece of advice I received last year (my first one) was "FINISH YOUR PAPER BEFORE YOU GET THERE." A couple of people I hung out with had been frantically completing theirs in a hotel room at first and feeling frazzled/miserable until they did so.

xpost to scott, yeah I've done it many times, it's totally fun

1st time: talked about Germs burns and Darby Crash
2nd time: talked about Lynyrd Skynyrd and slavery
3rd time: talked about queer minstrelsy (The Meatmen, The Frogs, etc.)

plus I was on some panels (including the infamous one with Stephin Merritt about which you can websearch if you wanna know more)

it's such a great conference, people are sweet and you get good questions during Q+A

the only sucky part is that there are too many good things at the same time so it's kinda torture to choose what you do

wish that I was going, would love to hang

but now that I'm a renaissance lit professor I can't do too many music conferences per year and I already spoke at the black metal theory symposium so that was my music talk for 2011

This weekend's weather looks terrible. At least I won't feel guilty for spending so much time indoors.

i was really worried that i wouldn't have enough material for 20 minutes, and then i finally wrote it up over the weekend and read it out loud and lol it was 35. so i'm frantically hacking away.

Not sure what the food situation will be like around Royce Hall for the weekend, or at least for lunch. Guess we'll all find out together.

the andy zax thing on itunes U is amazing -- bizarre reprise/warners radio ad spots.

Utterly stellar, one of last year's highlights, even more amazing live.

would love to get the CDR he mentions at the end! hint hint.

You never know. (Are you attending?)

nah, i seriously considered it, but couldn't make it work. someday!

YA BETTER.

It is really great fun. I am going to be exhausted as all hell by Sunday evening though.

well, the move to LA is a step in the right direction in re: to me actually coming to an EMP. is that a permanent-type thing?