EMP Pop Conference 2012 -- NYC

what's a scenius?

Although I'm not listed, I believe I'm participating in this:

Friday, March 23 2:15 - 3:45
>> Roundtable: The Church of What's Happening Now: Improv 2012 and the Cosmopolitan Truth
Venue: Room 4
This gathering will examine the economics, aesthetics and ethnicities of improvisational music culture in present-day NYC. It will include special emphasis on how older definitions of jazz, neo-classical, dance, rock, folk, global, breakbeat and fusion have been provoked, transformed and morphed by contemporary urban artists and audiences. The role of digital technologies and social media will be in the mix too. The panelists will also look at how race, class and gender issues have been addressed by present-day practitioners, and how gentrification has affected the communities and venues available to the city's contemporary improvising community.
Moderated by: Greg Tate
Featuring: Butch Morris, Vijay Iyer, Marika Hughes, Mazz Swift

And then on Sunday morning at 9, I'll be delivering my regular paper:

>> Jazz Alleys
Venue: Room 3
Featuring:
David R. Adler, "Ghost Train: Pre-Swing Big Bands and Urban Experience"
Nate Chinen, "Nice Work: Jazz Agency and the New York City Cabaret Card, 1943-1967"
Phil Freeman, "FROM THE CORNER TO CARNEGIE HALL AND BEYOND: THE URBANIZATION OF MILES DAVIS, 1972-1991"
Alex W. Rodriguez, "Deconstructing the Hang: Urban Spaces As Cross-Cultural Contexts for Jazz Improvisation"

[No, I don't know why my paper's title is in all caps while everyone else's is upper-lower. Looking forward to the panel, though, as I don't think I've ever met any of the other writers face to face.]

what's a scenius?

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, January 24, 2012

As I recall this refers to critic Simon Reynold's discussion of Eno's scenius versus genius thing...Does great music come from musicians who are part of a "scene" versus musicians off on their own

Oh my god this thing looks amazing. Just registered.

300 papers! or presenters or whatever! here's mine: http://www.empmuseum.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26&ccID=127&xPopConfBioID=1724&year=2012

So former V. Voice critic RJ Smith's gonna do something related to his James Brown bio due out in March. Bet this will be good

The One: The Life and Music of James Brown

Simon Reynold's discussion of Eno's scenius versus genius thing...Does great music come from musicians who are part of a "scene" versus musicians off on their own

ok, I know when I'm licked -- see u guyz at the bar.

scott we're going to rock the house

programming is brilliant, our thing is like nyc from 1970 thru 1990

stiff competition though

as nycentric as i can be the LA panel looks awesome esp this

Ken Tucker, " L.A. Eccentricity in the 1970s: Thomas Jefferson Kaye, Hirth Martinez, and Moon Martin

Morbz, you're checking it out?!

or are you going to be one of those guys with posters screaming about socialism

I want to come up from DC for this but may not be able to (work and family responsibilities). :(

Does registration fill up early? I really want to score a spot for this but I'm not 100% sure I can go. Can you cancel later?

I registered because it was free but there usually isn't a problem.

I didn't realize registration was required - how do we go about doing it?

I don't have a bus ticket yet, etc. but would like to make sure I can go.

Go to the website (linked yesterday by Scott) -- there's a link there.

Morbz, you're checking it out?!

Are you nuts? I mean I will be here if you guys ever lead the premises.

leaVE

full table of contents for emp book coming out this year. looks cool! hope some new yawk people can make it to the book gathering/party on friday of the conference this year. would love to see anyone and everyone:

Introduction / Eric Weisbard 1Collapsing Distance: The Love-Song of the Wanna-Be, or The Fannish Auteur / Jonathan Lethem 7Black Rockers vs. Blackies Who Rock, or The Difference between Race and Music / Greg Tate 15Toward an Ethics of Knowing Nothing / Alexandra T. Vazquez 27Divided Byline: How a Student of Leslie Fiedler and a Colleague of Charles Keil Became the Ghostwriter for Everybody from Ray Charles to Cornell West / David Ritx 40Boring and Horrifying Whiteness: The Rise and Fall of Reaganism as Prefigured by the Career Arcs of Carpenters, Lawrence Welk, and the Beach Boys in 1973–74 / Tom Smucker 47Perfect is Dead: Theodor Adorno, Karen Carpenter, and the Radio, or If Hooks Could Kill / Eric Lott 62Agents of Orange: Studio K and Cloud 9 / Karen Tongson 82Belliphonic Sounds and Indoctrinated Ears: The Dynamics of Military Listening in Wartime Iraq / J. Martin Daughtry 111Since the Flood: Scenes for the Fight for New Orleans Jazz Culture / Larry Blumenfeld 145(Over the) Rainbow Warrior: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole and Another Kind of Somewhere / Nate Chinen 176Travel with Me: Country Music, Race, and Remembrance / Diane Pecknold 185The Comfort Zone: Shaping the Retro-Soul Audience / Oliver Wang 201Within Limits: On the Greatness of Magic Slim / Carlo Rotella 230Urban Music in the Teenage Heartland / Brian Goedde, Austin Bunn, and Elena Passarello 240"Death to Racism and Punk Revisionism": Alice Bag's Vexing Voice and the Unspeakable Influence of Canción Ranchera on Hollywood Punk / Michelle Habell-Pallán 247Of Wolves and Vibrancy: A Brief Explanation of the Marriage Made in Hell between Folk Music, Dead Cultures, Myth, and Highly Technical Modern Extreme Metal / Scott Seward 271The New Market Affair: Media Pranks, the Music Industry's Last Big Gold Rush, and the Hunt for Hits in the Shenandoah Valley / Kembrew McLeod 282All That Is Solid Melts into Schmaltz: Poptimism vs. the Guilty Displeasure / Carl Wilson 299Contributors 313Index 317

okay that came out totally wrong. sorry.

Okay so -- I gather on Twitter people are trying to work out accomodations so if there's a need for anyone, might as well post information here. (I'm already set, this is a public service revive.)

Hello--I'm in the middle of trying to organize accommodations so I can go and talk about Addis Ababa... (http://www.empmuseum.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26&ccID=127&xPopConfBioID=1700&year=2012)

at some point on the 25th i'm gonna have to sneak away to watch the mad men premiere. (yes, it is important.)

just heard about this last week when daphne carr sent an email out to all the peeps who supported the BMW kickstarter campaign. i don't know any of you in person, but here's hoping this will give me the opportunity. looking forward to this!

Who's going? I'm not sure I can swing all the days off of work but I definitely definitely want to come up one night and kiw a bunch of u

I'd suggest either Thursday (opening night/reception/etc.) or Saturday due to this:

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EMP Happy Hour, at Von, a short walk from NYU, Saturday 6:30-9:30. "Conference attendees 21 and older are invited to continue the conversation into the night at Von, http://www.vonbar.com/, located at 3 Bleecker Street between Lafayette and Bowery. Panelists will receive a wristband to enjoy cocktails at the bar -- venue capacity is limited, first-come first admitted."

We're hitting the big time -- Colbert actually made a couple of EMP Pop Conference jokes right out of the gate tonight, I gather!

Also, another formal event or two to note, these on the Friday night:

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Libation NYC: A Global Soul Dance Party featuring DJ Ian Friday
Venue: 218 Sullivan Street NY 10012
Acclaimed music historian Tim Lawrence, author of Loves Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, calls New York dance party Libation "one of the few parties in New York where the sonically and socially progressive lineage that began with the Loft and carried on at parties such as the Gallery, the Paradise Garage, the Underground Network and Body & Soul lives on." Ian Friday, Manchildblack, and Afro Mosaic Soul have teamed up with this conference to present a special evening of one of Gotham's hottest underground dance parties: Libation (The Global Soul Experience). Resident mixologist Ian Friday (Global Soul Music) will spin a seamless set of deep, underground, soul-drenched music.
21+ only, ID required; $15 all night; or $10 for EMP/IASPM-US participants w/ unique badge

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Poor Baby Bree presents Ragtime, Ragmen, and Ragamuffins: Historic Songs of the Lower East Side
Venue: Bleecker Street Theater (45 Bleecker)
"Like being transported into another era. What an amazing performer!"
- Laurie Anderson
Join singer/archivist Bree Benton (as Bowery waif "Poor Baby Bree”) and musical director/frequent EMP presenter Franklin Bruno for a revue of comic and pathetic songs dating from the 1870s-1910s, the golden age of New York vaudeville. Hear songs by Irving Berlin ("Yiddle, With Your Fiddle, Play Some Ragtime"), variety impresario Tony Pastor ("In the Bowery"), and Irish-American musical theater pioneers Harrigan & Hart ("The Market on Saturday Night"), and other rarely-performed numbers, reconstructed from original sheet music and songsters. With Franklin Bruno (piano), Karen Waltuch (viola), Jacob Garchik (tuba/trombone), and Nick Russo (banjo/mandolin).
$8 at the door for Pop Conference/IASPM-US attendees ($12 otherwise). Please visit www.poorbabybree.com for more information and advance ticketing.

That said the thing I'm really up for is a full 17-member band performance from Escort at Brooklyn Bowl that evening at midnight.

http://www.brooklynbowl.com/event/102635/

http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/tue-march-13-2012-andrew-bird

Hahah holy shit, I am POSITIVE that photo of a panel they use is one of mine! And that might be...Matos presenting?

Colbert's mock proposal sounds pretty good actually

He's got the academic title style down perfectly.

Okay, that's not Matos, that was Charlie Bertsch introducing the panel of Nate Chinen, Geeta Dayal and J. D. Considine. And yep, that's my photo:

http://nedraggett.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/emp-pop-conference-2010-friday-presentations/

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/03/emp_pop_conference_colbert_report.php

i posted that info on geeta's facebook wall. funny!

you need to ask for a royalty check, ned.

SUE 'EM OUT OF EXISTENCE oh wait

advise u to go thru underaero

That would be unethical!

Poor Baby Bree is fucking awesome btw; everyone should see that show

Last day to pre-register:

http://www.empmuseum.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26

Registered a while ago, still haven't gotten the update e-mail with details etc. Trying to plan when I should be busing down and so forth.

Does anyone know what time on Thursday the conference starts? Is it a "you should be there early Thursday morning" thing or does it not get properly started until the afternoon, etc.

(also, trying to rationalize/justify going by getting as much work done in the next 24 hours as possible)

and when can I say hi to you EMP gays?

I'm still waffling on ability to go. Couchsurfing with friends just got confirmed, so now it boils down to whether my summer job applications (due Friday) and other coursework that I promised myself would get done does get done.

Family obligations mean I can't make it up there. Thursday night opening looks like it could be interesting

7:00pm - 8:30pm
>> Conference Opening Keynote: The Artist in the City: with Angélique Kidjo, Esperanza Spalding, Santigold, and Himanshu Suri (aka Heems)

i have been procrastinating so much on everything as far as planning what i'm actually doing this weekend, beyond that i am definitely taking the bus up Thursday night and doing a panel (w/ Matos!) on Friday afternoon and staying til Sunday. maybe i can wing it? i need to get my shit together.

wandering down to the bus station now. new york!

this is an ungodly hour, iirc

I can't make it, alas: a work meeting tomorrow afternoon that's probably the most important of the year.