EMP Pop Conference 2014

Maybe next time it will all be sweetness and light, with a holographic Jeff Bezos pointing out the walkways around his domain.

http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2014/04/28/emp-geography-of-music/

A presenter's blogpost about the conference

And another

http://hamptonroads.com/2014/04/rashod-goes-seattle

mine, now up at FT:
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2014/05/adam-ant-in-seattle-with-me/

(the last gif -- no.7 -- always takes an age to appear: this may be bcz they are somewhat colossal, and in aggregate overloading my website, where I'm hosting them... or it may be some other reason)

(i will look into solving this later]

in fact it seems to be crashing some ppl's computers, hmmm

(much smaller gifs now mostly in place)

http://www.popmatters.com/feature/181585-emps-pop-conference-goes-mobile-and-returns-home/

An overview

call for papers e-mail is out there, definitely trying to go this time around. is there a 2015 thread yet?

Theme

Get Ur Freak On: Music, Weirdness, and Transgressions

Exploding conventions has long put the bomp in pop: the uncontainable desire of those deemed sexually unnatural, racial impostors, gender outlaws, obsessed fans, willful bohemians, or just plain weird. “We feel perverse, using the word with no comprehension of the principle,” Edgar Allan Poe wrote in “The Imp of the Perverse.” Music often sanctions transgression, challenges or corrupts the status quo depending on your perspective, gives us Prince in one era (called Imp of the Perverse by a biographer), Miley Cyrus in another, an Iggy Pop then and an Iggy Azalea now.

For this year’s Pop Conference, we seek presentations that connect music of any style or period to notions of transgression, perversion, and the weird, such as:
histories of the strange from minstrelsy to cabaret, rock and roll to black metal, “Tutti Frutti” to “Super Freak”
twistings of form—of the song, the voice, the genre, language; versioning and remixes; sonic markers of the polymorphous
queer pop, gender subversion and the perverse diva
transgression, social movements, and culture wars; the role of the state; drugs
racialized notions of otherness, margins/difference as center, carnival
exploitation–marketing “Blurred Lines,” the limits of dissolute star/fan behavior
technology and the estrangement of the human in pop
comparative cultural ethnographies of outrageousness
fetishization of records, the past, the disease of collecting

Submissions

Deadline

November 17, 2014. Email Eric

http://www.empmuseum.org/programs-plus-education/programs/pop-conference/pop-conference.aspx?t=call-for-proposals#Tabs

xpost -- not yet, so time to make one!

EMP Pop Conference 2015