EMP Pop Conference 2013

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.

― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 2:31 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.