Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Virtual Conferencing Reports Filed Online
EMP Pop Music Conference 2005
The 2005 Experience Music Project
Pop Music Conference
Seattle, WA
April 14 - 17, 2005
Music as Masquerade:
Poseurs, Playas, and Beyond
A. The Upcoming Conference. In the press, Matos interviews Christgau who says "I think it's the best thing that's ever happened to serious consideration of pop music, not just in this country but, as far as I know, in the world. I mean."
B. Reactions in the world of online journals in real-time as the conference springs into life.
1. April 13. tinyluckygenius aka the Unicorn's tear: MY ORVILLE REDENBACHER COSTUME WILL NOT BE COMPLETE!
2. April 14. Afrofuturist on Experiencing Seattle
3. April 14. Zoilus: Carl Wilson on Music: Pop Goes the Zoilus
4. April 15. Cat in a Raincoat on Discussions of Lil John, George Walker, and the Popularity of the Inauthentic
5. April 15. K5M Urbanhonking represented at pop conference
6. April 16. she real cool on Make Room for the B-Boy!
7. April 16. Yei Wei Blog aka Wild Taste (Jason Gross): EMP Blues
(Maybe more coming soon)
[Update 4/17/05, 2:49 pm]
8. March 1. The music issue, "Blanket at the Beach". Daphne Carr provides a link to her extract and requests any info about Central European Dance history be sent her way.
9. March 21. Quantum Noise ("Cabals, Cults, and Secret Societies: Underground Noise and the Hermetic Tradition"). Justin T. Farrar announces that he's invited to attend EMP and provides his extract online.
10. April 14. Pinocchio Theory, "Pop Music". Steven Shaviro (Prof of English at Wayne State) publicly regrets he couldn't attend this year's conference, but he didn't miss a year's gathering until now and thought they were great. Then casually segues into a remarkable monolog on "pop music".
[Update 4/18/05 8:58 am]
11. April 18. Poplicks, Oliver Wang on "EMP Wrap-Up". Oliver spent a week in Seattle. "For me, what I've gotten out of the conference, especially this year, is just a renewed vigor for ideas. That may sound odd, but when you make your living from intellectual work, ideas are your lifeblood...so when you hit spots where you feel uninspired and cynical, you're basically choking off your own career. EMP reinvigorates my passion for thinking and writing about music in all its myriad complexity and beauty."
12. April 18. Broken Language, "BTW, It's Sycophancy." Jon sums up his fourth year in attendance at EMP Pop Music Conference and lays out a dazzling array of links to sites maintained by other attendees.
[Update 4/18/05, 11:29 am]
13. April 16. Zoilus, "Pop ConFab: Day Two". What Carl Wilson calls "quick notes". The lunchtime discussion on music blogging deemed unrecappable, and the question "who reads blogs?" remained unanswered.
14. April 18. Zoilus, "Zoso, What's It To Ya?". A teaser, with Erik Davis' "Black Mass" presentation on Jimmy Page recapped. Zoilus promises to post a real wrap-up later in the day.
[Update 4/18/05 11:49 am]
15. April 18. tinyluckygenius aka the Unicorn's Tear, "SPYING TWILIGHT HIGHLIGHTS AND OF DISQUIETING GLIMPSES OF DOWNTOWN" or EMP is out for summer. Ned Sublette's 'presentation on New Orleans parade culture and jazz funerals and hip hop and the sex slave trade and growing up in a racist, small town in pre-civil rights Louisiana' receives a high 'hubba hubba score'. And Elijah Wald's ability to connect the dots in tejano music and sew up a cowboy shirt met with due astonishment. More than that on EMP from the tinyluckygenius, though.
16. April 17. lacunae, Douglas Wolk's digital simulacrum on "the EMP and the Ukraine King". Wolk met up with fellow 33 1/3 authors Franklin Bruno, Daphne Brooks, Erik Davis, Andrew Hultkrans, J. Niimi and Michaelangelo Matos at the conference. His paper was on early coca cola ads with pop stars recording original songs. I'm betting he also wants to teach the world to sing.
[update 4/18/05, 2:56 pm]
17. April 10. Raised by Bees, "My Paper". Only some of the agonies of writing a paper for EMP.
18. April 13. Raised by Bees, "Wish Me Luck". Writer goes missing; last seen boarding a flight for Seattle.
[update 4/18/05, 4:03 pm]
19. April 18. Waiting for Bubba, "Ya down wit' EMP? Yeah y'all know me... ". Kandia Crazy Horse posts her first on the EMP, sends us a purty postcard or two, and promises more. "...Yet the fact that some folks out there in the aether are thinking seriously about music and arriving at brilliant bits of insight is heartening at a time when this land seems at its most anti-intellectual (jes' axe my twin sister teaching art history at USC) and in thrall to the morass of low culture."
20. April 15/16. Jennifer C. Lena, "What's the rumpus?" "for a conference filled with people whose quotidian existance is suffused with synchophantry and/or a secret conviction that the world is crazy while they are sane, there is remarkably little unfair, back-bitey talk."
21. April 18. Michaelangelo Matos, "All Roads Lead to 'Apache'". Matos hands over the paper he presented on some of the strange socio-politcal convolutions of a twangy instrumental number. And he promises more notes on EMP to follow, maybe later this week.
[update 4/19/05, 6:00 am]
22. April 14. Bjorn Turoque will Rock You!. Bjorn will be lecturing about Air Guitar.
[update 4/19/05, 8:27 am]
23. April 15. "UCLA affiliates to present at pop music conference", Daily Bruin."At least five of the presenters are affiliated with UCLA: philosophy graduate student Franklin Bruno and musicology graduate student Caroline O'Meara, School of Public Health staff member and alumnus Max Hechter, musicology doctoral student Jacqueline Warwick and musicology chair and professor, Robert Fink." " 'The academics bring a certain level of detail and care, and sometimes rock critics are more interested in ideas about the big picture and what's happening right now,'" said Bruno.
24. April 14. Scott Prinzing, "Growling Old Men ...", The Billings Outpost. "The conference received a record number of proposals this year, so as a first-time submitter from Montana, my paper, 'Out of the Heavy Metal Closet,' didn’t make the cut, but I was invited to moderate one of the panels."
25. April. Richard Hugo House Writers-In-Residence Events. Writer-in-Residence Anna Maria Hong on the Po Lovers Panel at EMP, poets discussing why rock stars really want to be poets. Audiovisual aid (a cartoon slide rule) scripted by Hong and drawn by Mark Campos.
[update 4/19/05, 12:45 pm]
26. April 19. DJ El Toro, "I won't lie to you". Wryly mentions the nice British presenters and power-point presentations before veering into where his notion of what constitutes soul music came from.
27. April 17. Joel on Unscene, "Music Makes the (Middle Class White) People Come Together". Brian Goedde, Jessica Hopper, and Lavinia Greenlaw score high marks for their presentations.
28. April 19. Daphe, the music issue, "EMP Short Attention Span Theater". Daphne lists an impressive array of speakers, topics, and shares memorable moments. Swears to provide links later in the day.
29. April 18. Kandia continues her "EMP Round-up" while Waiting for Bubba. "Tuesday...and it's already too late to do justice to the highs of this year's EMP conference." Then proceeds to do just that, with tons of links attention-grabbing graphix.
[update 4/19/05, 4:55 pm]
30. April 18. Franklin Bruno, konvolut m the power to deduce/this guitar and its use. Franklin Bruno on the ups and downs of the EMP conference.
31. April 19. pf, Running the Voodoo Down, "I'm Back!". "... sitting quietly and absorbing the wisdom of other hacks (and some academics)".
32. April 19. Douglas Wolk, lacunae digital simulacrum, "empirical f.f.r.r.""Rockism" rolled and tumbled.
[update 4/19/05, 10:55 pm]
33. April 19. Zoilus, "That Was Pop". Carl Wilson rekindled, "there's really nothing like this conference, and I hope that should the EMP's fortunes falter (which does seem a possibility) the pop-hop-soul-a-roll-ademia writing massive will find a way to carry this event forward, no matta. It was energizing, inspiring, enlarging." Answered the question "who reads blogs?" (I meant, Wilson recommended Franklin Bruno's blog, but nonetheless two posts unrelated to this year's event removed from the shelf of the short attention span li-berry located here. Thanks, Carl!)
34. April 19. afm = afrofuturist's freshtastic monoblog, "Back From Seattle". Some highlights in the form of blind items.
[update 4/20/05 10:30 am]
35. April 19. Kandia Crazy-Horse, "Josh Kun for Prez-O-Dent", Waiting for Bubba. Still thinking about the conference, and provides "links to two papers I very much enjoyed, as Blogged elsewhere better than I could do justice to." Ends with a plea for a job, almost anywhere, but somewhere, soon.
[update 4/20/05, 2:01 pm]
36. April 20. Zoilus, "Last EMP-anada". Carl Wilson swears to stop going on and on about the conference. Provides link to photos (below).
37. April 19. dokuchan, "EMPopCon report: saturday". Photos and commentary just doesn't say it.
[update 4/20/05, 4:44 pm]
38. April 19. soul-sides, "All Roads Lead to 'Apache'". No near end to the fun anywhere in sight. Oliver Wang MP-3 enhances Michaelangelo Matos presentation paper.
39. April 20. jsmooth, hiphopmusic.com, "EMP Pop Conference". "So the feast of ideas that EMP laid out was hella inspiring, sparked a hunger to get out there into that world and bring home new colors for the palette." Reports on the self-limiting strictures inherent in blogs from the music-blog forum.
[update 4/21/05, 1:19 pm]
40. April 20. Sasha Frere-Jones, "Grey Grass". "EMP? Only a few things to say, but I'll start with the free stuff ... ". Mea culpa.
41. April 21. Laina Dawes promises to post her "academic" (i.e., no profanity) presentation on her site soon. "What Are YOU Doing Here? The Trials and Tribulations of a Black Female Metalhead" (from "How to Rock like a Black Feminist Critic" panel).
42. April 20. Phil Freeman, Running the Voodoo Down, "What I Said". The text of his presentation, "It's Not Just a T-Shirt". What Metal t-shirts really mean to metal heads.
43. April 21. Josh, North, "Music As Masquerade". A few pix and quick run-down of "Cool Icons" and "Music Blogs" panels.
44. April 21. Scott Prinzing, Billings Outpost, "Writing from Seattle". Outlines his first EMP-experience.
[update 4/21/05, 4:14 pm]
45. April 21. Robert Christgau, Village Voice, "Rock & Roll and Show Me the Money." The Dean heads back and lays it on the line for his readers. "So let's just say I'm representing."
46. April 21. Prof. Drew LeDrew, chemistry class, "Make the Music Go Pap". "There's not a conference in the world that I'd attend willingly, and reading a variety of unmediated responses, reactions, and recollections to this one, via blogdom, is far and away the best way to go for the socially phobic."
[update 4/24/05, 8:50 am]
47. April 23. Zoilus. Carl Wilson, "Famous and Dandy Like Amos & Andy". Ideas brought up at EMP fall on fertile ground.
48. April 24. Evelyn McDonnell, Miami Herald, "Behind the music: It's more than fun, sex, noise". "At the fourth-annual Pop Conference in Seattle, music scholars went way beyond rock-crit jargon to find meaning."
49. April 14 to ???. The always active and ever expanding I Love Music discussion group threads on the 2005 conference.
Pop Conference 2005 EMP, Seattle, April 14th to April 17th.. (feat. Tom Ewing)
Afterthoughts of the EMP Pop Conference 2005, Go!
How To Rock Like A Black Feminist Critic
[Update 4/25/2005 6:17 PM]
50. April 23. Zoilus, Carl Wilson, Benny XVI and the Jets.
51. April 21-24. Alexandra revisits the EMP and shares her recollections.
April 21. Seattle, part the first
April 23. Seattle, part the second
April 24. Seattle: Saturday, April 16.
[Update 4/27/2005 7:00 AM]
52. April 26. Amy Phillips, More in the Monitor, "Pop Conference 2005 / Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA / April 14-17, 2005". Recognizing her recent life has been consumed by the conference and its aftermath, Amy begins with a warning: "ATTENTION PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT ROCK CRITICS, ROCK CRITIC FANBOYS/GIRLS, POP MUSIC SCHOLARS OR MY FRIENDS: Move along, nothing to see here. Go play outside. I hear sunlight is good for you."
[update 4/29/05 9:57 am]
53. April 29. Tom Ewing, NYLPM, "EMP FALLOUT #1: More tubas Akwid - 'No Hay Manera'".
54. April 29. Tom Ewing, NYLPM, "EMP FALLOUT #2: I Can't Believe It's Not The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones - 'Wake Up In The Morning (Rice Krispies)'"
55. April 29. Sasha Frere-Jones, SJF, "In Blog Years, This Post Is Four Months Old." "Everyone in America should have heard and seen Ned Sublette's paper at EMP. I mean heard, and I mean seen. You need to hear him sing "Congoooo....congo nation."
[update 4/29/05 6:37 pm]
56. April 29. Matt Ashare, Portland Phoenix, "The real thing? From blackface to the Bad Seeds."
"But thanks to two of EMP’s curators, Ann Powers (who collaborated with Tori Amos on the book Piece by Piece) and her husband, Eric Weisbard, the building has become home to perhaps the only annual music conference of note not hosted by a college or university."
57. April 19. J. Niimi, Cryptic Semaphore, "Ringway to Seatrac." "Had a blast this weekend at Rockcritpalooza ... " Lots of photos.
58. April 20. Jay Farrar, Quantum Noise, EMP Pop Conference 2005".
59. April 14-20. Kimberly Chun, "Sonic Reducer: Brain Fu", San Francisco Bay Guardian".
" ... this cerebral demolition derby for academics, music critics, artists, et al."
60. April 23. Laina Dawes, "Back From Seattle and my EMP Paper". A woman true to her word, Laina posts her presentation paper on her blog along with some impressions she carried away from the conference.
61. May 4-10. Douglas Wolk, "Thinking About Rockism", Seattle Weekly. One of the topics that's lingered from the EMP conference for him.
62. June. J. Niimi, "Love and Theft Revisited: EMP 2005", Perfect Sound Forever (June, 2005 issue). "The fiery discussion, like the conference in general, didn't come close to solving any problems once and for all, but it was a true rock moment – disorienting, pulse-raising, scary – where questions fraught with gravity displaced the comfort of pat answers. Like a great pop tune (or a Buddy Holocaust song), its aftereffects still tug at me."
63. June. Carl Wilson, "WHO WAS THAT MASKED SINGER-SONGWRITER? BANDONYMS, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FALLACY AND THE MASCULINE ABJECT IN THE LO-FI FIN DE SIECLE ", Experience Music Project. Elsewhere in the quick shifting cyberworld, the paper Zoilus presented at the conference is at last available for a complete and total read at the EMP site (in downloadable PDF).
Music
Music Journalism
EMP Pop Music Conference ¶ 4/27/2005 06:58:00 AM
EMP Pop Music Conference 2005
The 2005 Experience Music Project
Pop Music Conference
Seattle, WA
April 14 - 17, 2005
Music as Masquerade:
Poseurs, Playas, and Beyond
A. The Upcoming Conference. In the press, Matos interviews Christgau who says "I think it's the best thing that's ever happened to serious consideration of pop music, not just in this country but, as far as I know, in the world. I mean."
B. Reactions in the world of online journals in real-time as the conference springs into life.
1. April 13. tinyluckygenius aka the Unicorn's tear: MY ORVILLE REDENBACHER COSTUME WILL NOT BE COMPLETE!
2. April 14. Afrofuturist on Experiencing Seattle
3. April 14. Zoilus: Carl Wilson on Music: Pop Goes the Zoilus
4. April 15. Cat in a Raincoat on Discussions of Lil John, George Walker, and the Popularity of the Inauthentic
5. April 15. K5M Urbanhonking represented at pop conference
6. April 16. she real cool on Make Room for the B-Boy!
7. April 16. Yei Wei Blog aka Wild Taste (Jason Gross): EMP Blues
(Maybe more coming soon)
[Update 4/17/05, 2:49 pm]
8. March 1. The music issue, "Blanket at the Beach". Daphne Carr provides a link to her extract and requests any info about Central European Dance history be sent her way.
9. March 21. Quantum Noise ("Cabals, Cults, and Secret Societies: Underground Noise and the Hermetic Tradition"). Justin T. Farrar announces that he's invited to attend EMP and provides his extract online.
10. April 14. Pinocchio Theory, "Pop Music". Steven Shaviro (Prof of English at Wayne State) publicly regrets he couldn't attend this year's conference, but he didn't miss a year's gathering until now and thought they were great. Then casually segues into a remarkable monolog on "pop music".
[Update 4/18/05 8:58 am]
11. April 18. Poplicks, Oliver Wang on "EMP Wrap-Up". Oliver spent a week in Seattle. "For me, what I've gotten out of the conference, especially this year, is just a renewed vigor for ideas. That may sound odd, but when you make your living from intellectual work, ideas are your lifeblood...so when you hit spots where you feel uninspired and cynical, you're basically choking off your own career. EMP reinvigorates my passion for thinking and writing about music in all its myriad complexity and beauty."
12. April 18. Broken Language, "BTW, It's Sycophancy." Jon sums up his fourth year in attendance at EMP Pop Music Conference and lays out a dazzling array of links to sites maintained by other attendees.
[Update 4/18/05, 11:29 am]
13. April 16. Zoilus, "Pop ConFab: Day Two". What Carl Wilson calls "quick notes". The lunchtime discussion on music blogging deemed unrecappable, and the question "who reads blogs?" remained unanswered.
14. April 18. Zoilus, "Zoso, What's It To Ya?". A teaser, with Erik Davis' "Black Mass" presentation on Jimmy Page recapped. Zoilus promises to post a real wrap-up later in the day.
[Update 4/18/05 11:49 am]
15. April 18. tinyluckygenius aka the Unicorn's Tear, "SPYING TWILIGHT HIGHLIGHTS AND OF DISQUIETING GLIMPSES OF DOWNTOWN" or EMP is out for summer. Ned Sublette's 'presentation on New Orleans parade culture and jazz funerals and hip hop and the sex slave trade and growing up in a racist, small town in pre-civil rights Louisiana' receives a high 'hubba hubba score'. And Elijah Wald's ability to connect the dots in tejano music and sew up a cowboy shirt met with due astonishment. More than that on EMP from the tinyluckygenius, though.
16. April 17. lacunae, Douglas Wolk's digital simulacrum on "the EMP and the Ukraine King". Wolk met up with fellow 33 1/3 authors Franklin Bruno, Daphne Brooks, Erik Davis, Andrew Hultkrans, J. Niimi and Michaelangelo Matos at the conference. His paper was on early coca cola ads with pop stars recording original songs. I'm betting he also wants to teach the world to sing.
[update 4/18/05, 2:56 pm]
17. April 10. Raised by Bees, "My Paper". Only some of the agonies of writing a paper for EMP.
18. April 13. Raised by Bees, "Wish Me Luck". Writer goes missing; last seen boarding a flight for Seattle.
[update 4/18/05, 4:03 pm]
19. April 18. Waiting for Bubba, "Ya down wit' EMP? Yeah y'all know me... ". Kandia Crazy Horse posts her first on the EMP, sends us a purty postcard or two, and promises more. "...Yet the fact that some folks out there in the aether are thinking seriously about music and arriving at brilliant bits of insight is heartening at a time when this land seems at its most anti-intellectual (jes' axe my twin sister teaching art history at USC) and in thrall to the morass of low culture."
20. April 15/16. Jennifer C. Lena, "What's the rumpus?" "for a conference filled with people whose quotidian existance is suffused with synchophantry and/or a secret conviction that the world is crazy while they are sane, there is remarkably little unfair, back-bitey talk."
21. April 18. Michaelangelo Matos, "All Roads Lead to 'Apache'". Matos hands over the paper he presented on some of the strange socio-politcal convolutions of a twangy instrumental number. And he promises more notes on EMP to follow, maybe later this week.
[update 4/19/05, 6:00 am]
22. April 14. Bjorn Turoque will Rock You!. Bjorn will be lecturing about Air Guitar.
[update 4/19/05, 8:27 am]
23. April 15. "UCLA affiliates to present at pop music conference", Daily Bruin."At least five of the presenters are affiliated with UCLA: philosophy graduate student Franklin Bruno and musicology graduate student Caroline O'Meara, School of Public Health staff member and alumnus Max Hechter, musicology doctoral student Jacqueline Warwick and musicology chair and professor, Robert Fink." " 'The academics bring a certain level of detail and care, and sometimes rock critics are more interested in ideas about the big picture and what's happening right now,'" said Bruno.
24. April 14. Scott Prinzing, "Growling Old Men ...", The Billings Outpost. "The conference received a record number of proposals this year, so as a first-time submitter from Montana, my paper, 'Out of the Heavy Metal Closet,' didn’t make the cut, but I was invited to moderate one of the panels."
25. April. Richard Hugo House Writers-In-Residence Events. Writer-in-Residence Anna Maria Hong on the Po Lovers Panel at EMP, poets discussing why rock stars really want to be poets. Audiovisual aid (a cartoon slide rule) scripted by Hong and drawn by Mark Campos.
[update 4/19/05, 12:45 pm]
26. April 19. DJ El Toro, "I won't lie to you". Wryly mentions the nice British presenters and power-point presentations before veering into where his notion of what constitutes soul music came from.
27. April 17. Joel on Unscene, "Music Makes the (Middle Class White) People Come Together". Brian Goedde, Jessica Hopper, and Lavinia Greenlaw score high marks for their presentations.
28. April 19. Daphe, the music issue, "EMP Short Attention Span Theater". Daphne lists an impressive array of speakers, topics, and shares memorable moments. Swears to provide links later in the day.
29. April 18. Kandia continues her "EMP Round-up" while Waiting for Bubba. "Tuesday...and it's already too late to do justice to the highs of this year's EMP conference." Then proceeds to do just that, with tons of links attention-grabbing graphix.
[update 4/19/05, 4:55 pm]
30. April 18. Franklin Bruno, konvolut m the power to deduce/this guitar and its use. Franklin Bruno on the ups and downs of the EMP conference.
31. April 19. pf, Running the Voodoo Down, "I'm Back!". "... sitting quietly and absorbing the wisdom of other hacks (and some academics)".
32. April 19. Douglas Wolk, lacunae digital simulacrum, "empirical f.f.r.r.""Rockism" rolled and tumbled.
[update 4/19/05, 10:55 pm]
33. April 19. Zoilus, "That Was Pop". Carl Wilson rekindled, "there's really nothing like this conference, and I hope that should the EMP's fortunes falter (which does seem a possibility) the pop-hop-soul-a-roll-ademia writing massive will find a way to carry this event forward, no matta. It was energizing, inspiring, enlarging." Answered the question "who reads blogs?" (I meant, Wilson recommended Franklin Bruno's blog, but nonetheless two posts unrelated to this year's event removed from the shelf of the short attention span li-berry located here. Thanks, Carl!)
34. April 19. afm = afrofuturist's freshtastic monoblog, "Back From Seattle". Some highlights in the form of blind items.
[update 4/20/05 10:30 am]
35. April 19. Kandia Crazy-Horse, "Josh Kun for Prez-O-Dent", Waiting for Bubba. Still thinking about the conference, and provides "links to two papers I very much enjoyed, as Blogged elsewhere better than I could do justice to." Ends with a plea for a job, almost anywhere, but somewhere, soon.
[update 4/20/05, 2:01 pm]
36. April 20. Zoilus, "Last EMP-anada". Carl Wilson swears to stop going on and on about the conference. Provides link to photos (below).
37. April 19. dokuchan, "EMPopCon report: saturday". Photos and commentary just doesn't say it.
[update 4/20/05, 4:44 pm]
38. April 19. soul-sides, "All Roads Lead to 'Apache'". No near end to the fun anywhere in sight. Oliver Wang MP-3 enhances Michaelangelo Matos presentation paper.
39. April 20. jsmooth, hiphopmusic.com, "EMP Pop Conference". "So the feast of ideas that EMP laid out was hella inspiring, sparked a hunger to get out there into that world and bring home new colors for the palette." Reports on the self-limiting strictures inherent in blogs from the music-blog forum.
[update 4/21/05, 1:19 pm]
40. April 20. Sasha Frere-Jones, "Grey Grass". "EMP? Only a few things to say, but I'll start with the free stuff ... ". Mea culpa.
41. April 21. Laina Dawes promises to post her "academic" (i.e., no profanity) presentation on her site soon. "What Are YOU Doing Here? The Trials and Tribulations of a Black Female Metalhead" (from "How to Rock like a Black Feminist Critic" panel).
42. April 20. Phil Freeman, Running the Voodoo Down, "What I Said". The text of his presentation, "It's Not Just a T-Shirt". What Metal t-shirts really mean to metal heads.
43. April 21. Josh, North, "Music As Masquerade". A few pix and quick run-down of "Cool Icons" and "Music Blogs" panels.
44. April 21. Scott Prinzing, Billings Outpost, "Writing from Seattle". Outlines his first EMP-experience.
[update 4/21/05, 4:14 pm]
45. April 21. Robert Christgau, Village Voice, "Rock & Roll and Show Me the Money." The Dean heads back and lays it on the line for his readers. "So let's just say I'm representing."
46. April 21. Prof. Drew LeDrew, chemistry class, "Make the Music Go Pap". "There's not a conference in the world that I'd attend willingly, and reading a variety of unmediated responses, reactions, and recollections to this one, via blogdom, is far and away the best way to go for the socially phobic."
[update 4/24/05, 8:50 am]
47. April 23. Zoilus. Carl Wilson, "Famous and Dandy Like Amos & Andy". Ideas brought up at EMP fall on fertile ground.
48. April 24. Evelyn McDonnell, Miami Herald, "Behind the music: It's more than fun, sex, noise". "At the fourth-annual Pop Conference in Seattle, music scholars went way beyond rock-crit jargon to find meaning."
49. April 14 to ???. The always active and ever expanding I Love Music discussion group threads on the 2005 conference.
Pop Conference 2005 EMP, Seattle, April 14th to April 17th.. (feat. Tom Ewing)
Afterthoughts of the EMP Pop Conference 2005, Go!
How To Rock Like A Black Feminist Critic
[Update 4/25/2005 6:17 PM]
50. April 23. Zoilus, Carl Wilson, Benny XVI and the Jets.
51. April 21-24. Alexandra revisits the EMP and shares her recollections.
April 21. Seattle, part the first
April 23. Seattle, part the second
April 24. Seattle: Saturday, April 16.
[Update 4/27/2005 7:00 AM]
52. April 26. Amy Phillips, More in the Monitor, "Pop Conference 2005 / Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA / April 14-17, 2005". Recognizing her recent life has been consumed by the conference and its aftermath, Amy begins with a warning: "ATTENTION PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT ROCK CRITICS, ROCK CRITIC FANBOYS/GIRLS, POP MUSIC SCHOLARS OR MY FRIENDS: Move along, nothing to see here. Go play outside. I hear sunlight is good for you."
[update 4/29/05 9:57 am]
53. April 29. Tom Ewing, NYLPM, "EMP FALLOUT #1: More tubas Akwid - 'No Hay Manera'".
54. April 29. Tom Ewing, NYLPM, "EMP FALLOUT #2: I Can't Believe It's Not The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones - 'Wake Up In The Morning (Rice Krispies)'"
55. April 29. Sasha Frere-Jones, SJF, "In Blog Years, This Post Is Four Months Old." "Everyone in America should have heard and seen Ned Sublette's paper at EMP. I mean heard, and I mean seen. You need to hear him sing "Congoooo....congo nation."
[update 4/29/05 6:37 pm]
56. April 29. Matt Ashare, Portland Phoenix, "The real thing? From blackface to the Bad Seeds."
"But thanks to two of EMP’s curators, Ann Powers (who collaborated with Tori Amos on the book Piece by Piece) and her husband, Eric Weisbard, the building has become home to perhaps the only annual music conference of note not hosted by a college or university."
57. April 19. J. Niimi, Cryptic Semaphore, "Ringway to Seatrac." "Had a blast this weekend at Rockcritpalooza ... " Lots of photos.
58. April 20. Jay Farrar, Quantum Noise, EMP Pop Conference 2005".
59. April 14-20. Kimberly Chun, "Sonic Reducer: Brain Fu", San Francisco Bay Guardian".
" ... this cerebral demolition derby for academics, music critics, artists, et al."
60. April 23. Laina Dawes, "Back From Seattle and my EMP Paper". A woman true to her word, Laina posts her presentation paper on her blog along with some impressions she carried away from the conference.
61. May 4-10. Douglas Wolk, "Thinking About Rockism", Seattle Weekly. One of the topics that's lingered from the EMP conference for him.
62. June. J. Niimi, "Love and Theft Revisited: EMP 2005", Perfect Sound Forever (June, 2005 issue). "The fiery discussion, like the conference in general, didn't come close to solving any problems once and for all, but it was a true rock moment – disorienting, pulse-raising, scary – where questions fraught with gravity displaced the comfort of pat answers. Like a great pop tune (or a Buddy Holocaust song), its aftereffects still tug at me."
63. June. Carl Wilson, "WHO WAS THAT MASKED SINGER-SONGWRITER? BANDONYMS, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FALLACY AND THE MASCULINE ABJECT IN THE LO-FI FIN DE SIECLE ", Experience Music Project. Elsewhere in the quick shifting cyberworld, the paper Zoilus presented at the conference is at last available for a complete and total read at the EMP site (in downloadable PDF).
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