EMP Pop Conference 2013

Okay, a formal announcement was just made so I can say that I will be on the organizing committee for the LA conference. :-)

agree w/ rev while also excited for this -- NYC this year was my first time, and towards the end of the weekend i'd heard murmurs that it was just going to be back in Seattle next year, which i probably wouldn't be able to manage, but at least this way i'd have a good chance of being able to go to NYC or maybe Cleveland.

Okay! The LA crew has just issued its CFP and general details:

https://www.facebook.com/events/300916070012820/

And if you just want or need the PDF

http://soul-sides.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/EMPLA-CFP-2013-1.pdf

right on, already thinking of proposal ideas.

I've skipped that step and I'm jumping right to bracing myself for rejection.

Are there going to be more papers this time around? I really want to present at one of these sometime. Hoping that being a PhD student at UCLA rather than a Master's student in Canada might help too. Though I'm sure actually having an interesting topic wouldn't hurt either, right?

http://myspiltmilk.com/pop-comes-new-orleans

Here's info on the 2013 New Orleans one

More Seattle info

http://www.anotherrainysaturday.com/2012/12/more-details-about-the-2013-emp-pop-conference-released/

i've been invited to take part in the "critical karaoke" segment of EMP LA! i get to play a song that's relevant to my topic and present over it, very quickly. :-)

i'll be talking about "baby boomers and the urban problem" -- with the mamas and the papas' "twelve-thirty (young girls are coming to the canyon)" as the centerpiece.

this seems like as opportune a time to ask as any: does anyone have any idea what is going on with new york?

some people are gonna talk about stuff? at nyu. i think. but no call for papers.

and also that sounds cool, jbr! watch out for ned's hard-hitting questions. he's relentless.

http://www.empmuseum.org/media/106470/popcon_2013_callforproposals.pdf

Seattle's call for papers

ah, awesome! i missed the deadline for LA, so i think i'll submit something to seattle -

Indeed, go for it!

As I know what the full lineup for the conference in LA -- given I helped choose it and all -- it's a firecracker. Wish you could all be here! I will be the social media face of the conference via Tumblr and Twitter -- more on that soon!

New Orleans paper submission issue is in the link posted November 27, 2012. It says in part:

Please send abstracts of individual papers, with 50-word bios, to Joel Dinerstein (jdinerst AT tulane.edu) or Karen Celestan (kcelestan AT tulane.edu) or GulfSouth AT Tulane.edu. Deadline for proposals is February 13, 2013. Panel proposals (90 minutes) or special types of panels (roundtable, performance) should include overview, individual papers or presentations, and bios. We welcome unorthodox proposals aimed explicitly at a general interest audience. Registration is free for presenters and the public.

So nothing from NYU re the NYC one?

My understanding is there was no CFP for New York, but presentations will be made.

hmmmmmm

Wait. So the NYC one isn't a normal pop con? Is it more restrained than the others? Is it better to go to one of the other ones?

You should of course come to LA why because special.

I decided to email Eric Weisbard of the EMP Pop Conference about NYC 2013 and here's what he said, in part:

This is New York’s theme: “After the Deluge,” The New York City installment of the 2013 EMP Pop Conference will be held at New York University April 18th-19th, 2013, sponsored by the Department of Performance Studies and the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. The two-day event will feature a set of discussions and events curated by a distinguished program committee of scholars and journalists. Our postdiluvian title is meant to be open-ended. It will invite reflection on music and the city and region before, during, and after Superstorm Sandy. It will draw focus to the much smaller scale of this year’s event, after the IASPM/EMP

extravaganza of 2012. And lastly, it will invite consideration of how we handle — as critics and consumers — the excesses and scarcities of music in our present moment. There will be no open call for papers but please get in touch with the conference organizer Tavia Nyong’o at

tavia.nyongo AT nyu.edu if you are interested in participating or attending.

Kind of a more limiting theme although they note they want it open-ended

Any details on the Cleveland one that Lauren Onkey of Case Western U and the R'n'Roll Hall of Fame is organizing?

Is this free to attend? The NYC one in particular? I would love to make it up there regardless...

Okay folks, the LA schedule is up!

http://empla2013.posterous.com/pages/schedule-full

Cleveland presentations (like NY) were by invitation only

http://rockhall.com/education/inside-the-classroom/university-program/emp-cle-2013/

broad themes posted:

As the world generates new modes of listening and sharing music, how do we map traditional and/or forge new organizational structures on consumption and appreciation?

· We will consider the value of list-making, curating and canon-making within a musical space that can be molded by each individual listener and evaluate the role of tastemakers in these new dynamics.

· Topics will include pedagogy; club booking and live series; institutional canon-making, such as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and EMP; and list-making.

specific schedule will be out soon
contact person:
kmetz AT rockhall.org

New Orleans deadline for proposals, as noted upthread, is Feb. 13th

New Orleans deadline is here

Maura Johnston (who is on the committee for the NYC EMP Conference), hopes to have events in each location I see

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/343410

http://www.empmuseum.org/calendar/events/pop-conference-2013.aspx

Details on registering for the free April 20th EMP Seattle event plus brief description of the format

I'm nervous now. New Orleans EMP accepted my proposal.

http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2013/03/15/emp-comes-to-nyu-april-18-19.html

http://www.empmuseum.org/programs-plus-education/programs/pop-conference/2013/emp-pop-conference-2013-new-orleans.aspx

If LA wasn't happening I was seriously going to use EMP New Orleans as an excuse to finally visit said city. Looks really lovely, that lineup.

I'm excited. Fellow DCers with a New Orleans dj on go-go; New Orleans bounce music; Sothern experimental music. I gotta get moving on my presentation.

good luck with it and yes the new orleans lineup is juicy. yesterday i realized it's been a year since the last emp, the entire conference was such fun and educational (no other word)

Is this free to attend? The NYC one in particular? I would love to make it up there regardless...

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, February 2, 2013

NYC EMP link now says registration is free for public and presenters

http://soundstudiesblog.com/call-for-emp-pop-correspondents/

We got LA poster!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/01b2198aa5b84fe07e5b78fb3a5874c7/tumblr_mjz5gmbctq1qar3r2o1_500.jpg

registration for new york is open:
http://emppopnyc2013.eventbrite.com/

facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/285692454894354/?fref=ts

http://emppopnyc2013.com/

NY schedule is here (includes Joe Boyd, Amanda Palmer(!), and Robert Christgau)

palpable disappointment that the other participant in the "keystone conversation with amanda palmer" is not maura

Maybe they meant Keystone beer.

goddamnit I hate that I have to do this but does anywhere know where I can get a ticket to the NYC conference, it is apparently sold out

Just lure the AP fans, lemminglike, away with claims of being able to buy her beer later.

Wow, waiting list only on that link for NYC. They should be streaming all the EMP conferences online or at least recording all of these every year (it always seems to be discussed but does not seem to happen). Not sure what the costs or tech issues would be.

kind of feel like there could have been a warning, you know, "BY THE WAY THIS IS LIKELY TO ACTUALLY SELL OUT"

xpost -- We are streaming them! At least LA is, I believe the rest are too.

Good.

http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/NOCGS//emp-pop-conference.cfm

New Orleans one now says space is limited, register early

yeah i think this is an unforeseen side effect of having just one panel at a time

Not a side effect of having AP speak? New Orleans is doing one panel at a time on Friday, but having 2 at a time on Saturday, unlike NY.

I think Seattle is just doing one day--Saturday.

I didn't even realize there was limited availability. The Seattle ones I've just been able to walk in an hour or two before the opening and register.

nyc one is only two days, thursday and friday, one panel at a time. AP tickets are a separate thing.

fuck it. buying one pass, katherinestasaph at gmail.

(unfortunately I can't afford to pay much for it because you know the entire reason I need a pass is I'm a music writer, but apparently this is my only option at this point)

Good luck.

Ned, New Orleans is not streaming the EMP from there online. I was told :

they are just taping (for archival purposes) a few of the panels.

A pity!

registration now closed for New Orleans!

Author Ned Sublette re the New Orleans EMP: I'm especially looking forward to seeing Matt Miller's bounce movie (his fine book, Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans, is required reading for New Orleans hiphop.)

And the week is here. Overall link for the whole shebang again

http://empmuseum.org/programs-plus-education/programs/pop-conference.aspx

And us!

http://empla2013.posterous.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/319086304869831/

https://twitter.com/EMP_LA

Adding to that, actually, please do register for LA if you can!

http://empla2013.posterous.com/pages/conference-registration-free

Also, here's some streaming info for LA!

For tomorrow night's opening event, it'll be streamed here:

http://weho.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=91

And for Friday and Saturday:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/empla

I see Cleveland's gonna have an interview with:

Brill Building songwriter, Beverly Ross, famous for penning The Chordettes’ “Lollipop,” Elvis Presley’s “The Girl of My Best Friend” and “Dim, Dim the Lights” for Bill Haley and His Comets released her tell all book titled I Was the First Woman Phil Spector Killed to rave reviews.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1170585#ixzz2QePS5s81

Might end up working all day Saturday.

Flying to New Orleans. This is gonna be pricey but fun.

dude is your panel seriously at 10am? that's brutal

Yep, the Memphis one Saturday morning from 10:15 to 11:45 (at the same time as the one on New Orleans bounce, bass and second line)

Just a reminder the opening LA session will be firing up here shortly!

Might end up working all day Saturday.

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Yup. Man see u.

Last night in LA was great! Hope everyone had a chance to tune in; we had a really good turnout, the chambers were almost totally full.

just registered for saturday, hoping to catch at least two panels!

Great! There's also tomorrow afternoon's absolutely necessary panel moderated by some guy or something...

Some photos from last night gathered in one handy place

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedraggett/sets/72157633272688665/

And really nice piece from Raquel Gutierrez, one of last night's panelists

http://raquelgutierrez.net/blog/2013/4/18/against-nostalgia

Also LA streaming coverage will be available via http://empmuseum.org/popconference-la

Met EMP Pop Con founder Eric W*isbard and talked again to writer Ned Sublette in New Orleans last night. Go-go panel coming up shortly then a later a New Orleans bounce movie doc and more. Also met guy doing the Bob Dylan in New Orleans talk

Nice. Currently en route to USC for day one...

LA is live!

http://empmuseum.org/popconference-la

And we'll be live again in two and a half hours...

EXHAUSTED. But another great EMP weekend this time in miniature.

EMP New Orleans panels and such were great and it was cool meeting folks on panels. I was happy with my presentation. Will tell more when I get back home. Unfortunately there was some sort of mixup or something with registration, as they announced in advance that it was "sold out", but it ended up with lots of empty seats for morning and afternoon panels (few of the registrants came). In addition to EMP, gf & I joined in a 2nd line led by Hot 8, saw John Boutte at DBA, Kermit Ruffins at his restaurant and more.

Its a shame the New Orleans panels were not streamed and few of them were taped--there were some fascinating ones. Hudson Marquez talking about getting beat up by the New Orleans police circa 1969 when he was trying to find Professor Longhair who had disappeared from the music scene, and how Quint Davis, the founder of Jazzfest tried to take credit later for "discovering" 'Fess. Alison F#nsterstock's presentation The Sissy Strut: Gay, tran-g, and cross-dressing black male entertainers in New Orleans from Patsy Vidalia to Big Freedia had various wow moments. The Bounce movie that can't get distributed because of copyright issues provided great insight into that scene.

That does sound very great and what a shame so few were recorded -- the various posts on Twitter made those sessions sound wonderful.

Speaking for myself the panel I moderated featuring our own Jeff T was definitely a highlight, as were the one-two roundtable Saturday sessions on Kendrick Lamar and krump.

so bummed that i had so much other traveling and stuff happening this month that there was no way i could make it to any of these. next year!

Met or heard lots of interesting folks-- Memphis professor Charles Hughes who is writing a book about race relations in the 1960s to 80s soul scene; a jazz and blues author who did a great presentation on Italian and Sicilian music and its relationship to blues and jazz (Louis Armstrong listening to Caruso; that John Tutoro movie Passione) and Holly George-Warren on Muscle Shoals studio, the 60s soul of Fame Records, and soul singer Arthur Alexander(covered by the Beatles, Rolling Stones & Dylan; and John Lennon especially loved his vocals and listened to him a lot she said). Of course you can't hear everything at these events--I missed an avante-jazz one, and a New Orleans bounce, bass and Second-line panel was opposite mine.

I wonder if ilxor Katherine ever managed to get into the NYC emp?

LOVED that krump panel, so so much

Yes indeed!

i used to shop at that ralph's in north hollywood and never once saw those guys :(

also ned i tried to flag you down after karaoke but you musta bolted pretty fast? anyway, well done! already looking forward to the next one

I went down to the Redwood to anchor some tables as soon as I could. You should have joined us!

Oh hey, I was invoked.

Quite.

indeed.

(I managed, thanks.)

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/04/emp_2013_a_shad.php

Voice contributor hypothesizes about reasons for EMP regional status this year and its future, without mentioning EMP founder Weisbard's statements that EMP will be in Seattle next year, and the regional focus had to do with Weisbard's busy academic schedule this year. There's also some discussion of this year's NYC panels

http://www.cartwheelart.com/2012/12/28/ike-turner-killed-jfk-a-conversation-with-hudson-marquez/

One of the highlights of EMP New Orleans was listening to author Jason Berry interview Hudson Marquez about his finding Professor Longhair in New Orleans in 1969 or so. Marquez told awesome stories about going to the Dew Drop Inn when he was 13 and seeing r'n'b greats, ranted about Jazz & Heritage Fest founder Quint Davis stealing credit for finding 'Fess and about the NOPD, and much more. Just found this link about this guy who also created the cadillac ranch. His comments about Springsteen on the link are pretty funny too.