The 2007 Pop Conference at Experience Music ProjectApril 19-22, 2007Seattle , Washington
Music happens, then it ripples. What is the relationship between the circumstances that produce music and our swirling notions of pop's past, future, and zeitgeist? How do the times affect the notes? What factors literally and figuratively change the beat of a city? Some decry postmodern "pastiche," while others defend pop concoctions as multiculturalism in action or intoxicating aesthetics. But what are the power relationships at work when music stops time and lets us dance in place?
For this year's Pop Conference, we invite presentations on music, time, and place. This might include:*Reading time and place into musical innovation. The breakbeat as a refunking of sonic structure and origin myth; or the social history of changing time signatures.* The racial, class, and gender components that constitute a pop place or time's "we"; the mutating New Orleans of the hip-hop, funk, R&B, and jazz eras, for example.*Evolving notions of musical revivalism: retro culture, questions of periodization in music, and the validity of the concept of youth culture as a sign of the times.*Geographies of sound, or how place is incorporated sonically. Lise Waxer called Cali , Colombia , an unlikely bastion of salsa revivalism, a "city of musical memory."*The dematerialization of the album into the celestial jukebox and other new media. Does the Chicken Noodle Soup dance live on 119 and Lex or on Youtube?*How dichotomies of nearness/experience and farness/history affect music fanship, music writing, and music making.*The "place" of pop now, culturally, professionally, and certainly politically.
Proposals should be sent to Eric Weisbard at [email protected] by December 15, 2006. For individual presentations, please keep proposals to roughly 250 words and attach a brief (75 word) bio. Full panel proposals and more unusual approaches are also welcome. For further guidance, contact the organizer or program committee members: Jalylah Burrell (New York University), Jon Caramanica (Vibe), Daphne Carr (series editor, Da Capo Best Music Writing), Jeff Chang (author, Can't Stop Won't Stop), Michelle Habell-Pallán (University of Washington), Josh Kun (University of Southern California) Eric Lott (University of Virginia), Ann Powers (Los Angeles Times), Simon Reynolds (author, Rip it Up and Start Again), Bob Santelli (author, The Big Book of Blues), and Judy Tsou (University of Washington). We are excited to announce that presentations from this year's conference will be considered for a future issue of The Believer.
The Pop Conference connect academics, critics, musicians, and other writers passionate about talking music. Our second anthology, Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music, will be published by Duke in 2007. The conference is sponsored by the Seattle Partnership for American Popular Music (Experience Music Project, the University of Washington School of Music, and radio station KEXP 90.7 FM), through a grant from the Allen Foundation for Music. For more information, go to http://www.emplive.org/education/index.asp and click on "Pop Conference."
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)
― nate p. (natepatrin), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)
― nate p. (natepatrin), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)
These questions are so general that I have to wonder why they are being asked.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)
Presumably they're being asked so that people can give their interpretation of an answer. That might be crazy talk, though.
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)
What is the relationship between the circumstances that produce music and our swirling notions of pop's past, future, and zeitgeist?
Ten million different things.
How do the times affect the notes?
Ten million different ways.
What factors literally and figuratively change the beat of a city?
Tons of different factors.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)
― boo berry (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)
x-post: hey
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)
That's got nuttin' to do with nuttin'.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)
underlying topical interests that inspired theme: interest in big-tent ideas.
not really so hard actually
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)
x-post: matos you can't just say "interest in big-tent ideas" in general. obviously, these topics were chosen for reasons.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)
That sounds like an idea for the 2007 meta-conference, actually!
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)
― grady (grady), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)
x-post
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Shootin' Out The Walls Of Heartache (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)
― nate p. (natepatrin), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)
― meritocracy (spencerman), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)
― boo berry (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)
two words: "SLAM" "DUNK"
― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)
Cali Cali CaliCali Cali Cali
I did a double take at the name "Lise Waxer." I found her book salsa in Cali quite inhteresting. (Unfortunately she died rather young.)
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:57 (nineteen years ago)
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 03:44 (nineteen years ago)
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:02 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:33 (nineteen years ago)
note to self: now think of stuff to say
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:35 (nineteen years ago)
― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:41 (nineteen years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:42 (nineteen years ago)
Haha, good lord Ned, how do you even remember all this stuff? (your info is, however, out of date)
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:33 (nineteen years ago)
― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)
Bring all kinds of good Portuguese food and drink with you plz. (I'm actually serious!)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)
― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)
The response I got was "Well, you're going to update it, right?" This was because it had been written a few years earlier - but, I mean, I'm going to update it? No. It was an actual piece of musicology and it stood on its own terms. It didn't need an "update." This year, I proposed that whole thing I mentioned earlier about "the celestial jukebox" - I won't go into it again.
People can accuse me of being a whiner or whatever if they want to - I actually just kind of felt like fighting back about it a little bit. I understand that there were lots of proposals. But my basic feeling is still that if this is going to be the same clique-ish crowd with the typical content every year then, you know, fuck this conference.
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)
― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)
― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)
What is the feeling supposed to be when you've earned degrees in music, you've been involved with music writing for a decade and a half, you feel like you've presented genuinely substantial proposals that didn't get accepted, and then you read people on here saying, "I got accepted - now I gotta figure out what I'm going to say?"
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)
― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/BCP/BCP135/BCP035-39.jpg
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)
[raises hand]
― Make a Beck Song #1 (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:34 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:57 (nineteen years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:59 (nineteen years ago)
― Make a Beck Song #1 (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)
― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:24 (nineteen years ago)
― Make a Beck Song #1 (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:31 (nineteen years ago)
The reason for my response to the suggestion that my paper should be "updated" in the latter case was because the paper was not about following the trend. It was a specific piece of musicology dealing with specific recordings. But it was seemingly determined to be out of date because it was about recordings that were four years old (while, naturally, people were giving talks about music that was thirty years old, eighty years old, etc.). The paper hadn't been published, I hadn't given it anywhere, and I felt like as far as my own "hand," as it were, of what I would have been able to contribute to that year's conference went, it was like my big card (esp. given that it coincidentally happened to match the subject matter of the conference exactly!).
So I'm not sure why it was "a valid enough prejudice" in that case.
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:50 (nineteen years ago)
― Make a Beck Song #1 (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:00 (nineteen years ago)
i appreciate yr pissed off abt this -- esp.as i've been thru an annoying bunch of work rejection recently -- but i sort of don't appreciate being singled out as the posterboy for why this entire thing must be a hollow cliquey charade, which is how yr response to my actually-sincere question abt "typical content" reads
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:00 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:03 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:04 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:07 (nineteen years ago)
― Make a Beck Song #1 (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:07 (nineteen years ago)
― Make a Beck Song #1 (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:08 (nineteen years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:09 (nineteen years ago)
― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:31 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:48 (nineteen years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)