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Subject: EMP Pop Conference CFP reminder

 Hi all,

 

Just a quick reminder that there are two weeks left to submit a proposal for this year's Pop Conference at Experience Music Project. I am also happy to note that participant registration and public attendance is free in 2007, with added money to help with some partial travel assistance, thanks to added sponsorship from Rhapsody. So please, send in those ideas. I would suggest copying my Earthlink account as well as the EMP one, since there have been some issues with emails to the EMP site. (Definitely email me at Earthlink if you sent something in and never received a confirmation email from me.) Below is this year's call for papers. You can also go here http://www.emplive.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26   for more info on the conference, past and present. 

 

Best,

Eric Weisbard

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Waking Up From History: Music, Time, and Place

The 2007 Pop Conference at Experience Music Project 

April 19 - 22, 2007 

Seattle, 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 [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  by December 15, 2006. For individual presentations, please keep proposals to about 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 connects 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 Rhapsody <http://www.rhapsody.com>  and the Seattle Partnership for American Popular Music <http://www.kexp.org/learn/spapm.asp>  (Experience Music Project, the University of Washington School of Music, and radio station KEXP 90.3 FM), through a grant from the Allen Foundation for Music.