Friday, September 14

Session 1: 9:00-10:20 a.m.

1. Method and Theory in Popular Music Studies (Steve Waksman, chair)

• Bruce Horner, "Making an Academic Difference: Popular Music Study and Disciplinary Identity Politics"
• Theodore Gracyk, "All Shook Up: The Cultural Location of Musical Appropriation"
• David Brackett, "What a Difference a Name Makes: Two Instances of African American Popular Music"

2. Women Making Music (Mirerza Gonzalez-Velez, chair)

• Rebekah Farrugia, "Representation and the Construction of Collectivity: Women and the Electronic Dance Music Art World"
• Margaret Martin, "Ray of Light/Bundle of Joy: Representations of Motherhood in Rock and Pop Music"
• Susan Fast, "When Women Sing Back Up: Power, Gender and Race in Rock Vocals"

3. Bob Dylan: Ambiguous Icon (Paul Friedlander, chair)

• Scott Sandage, "The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win: Bob Dylan and the American Aesthetic of Failure"
  
• David Shumway, "Bob Dylanís Self-Fashioning"
  
• Martha Nell Smith, "Bob Dylan: Gender and Sexuality?"
  

Session 2: 10:30-11:50 a.m.

4. African Music in the World (T.M. Scruggs, chair)

• Simon Akindes, "Jah Tiken Fakoly: Re-configuring Ivorianness and Pedagogy through Reggae in the Ivory Coast"
• Nasser Al-Taee (untitled, Algerian music)
  
• Martin Scherzinger, "Globalization and the Production of Musical Pasts in Africa"

5. High/Low: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde (Kembrew McLeod, chair)

• Jason Hanley, "Stockhausen, Cage, and Pink Floyd: The Avant-Garde in Art Rock"
  
• Lisa Soccio, "Nothing's Shocking: On the Persistence of Avant-Gardism in Alternative Music"
  
• Jane Chi Hyun Park, "Cibo Mattoís Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Hop"

6. Analyzing Popular Songs (Paul Fischer, chair)

• Marie-Eve Bouchard and Lee Ann Fullington, "The Break-up Song and the Test of Time"
  
• Sara Nicholson, "Parody as Analysis, or, the Musical Critique of a 1980s Pop Icon"
  
• Alex Carpenter, "The Pop Song and Its Double: Bauhaus, Cover Songs, and the Deconstruction of Glam"

Session 3: 2:00-3:45 p.m.

7. The Significance of Local and Virtual Popular Music Scenes in Everyday Life (Richard Peterson, chair)

• Andy Bennett, "New Tales from Canterbury: The Construction of a Virtual Scene"
  
• Kenneth Spring, "What It Takes to Have a Vital Music Scene: The Rise and Fall of Rave in Toledo"
  
• David Grazian, "Uptown, Downtown: Entertainment Zones and the Space of the Chicago Blues"
  
• Melanie Lowe, "'Tween Scene: The Social Practice of Being Teen Pop's Target Audience"

8. Racial Significations (Reebee Garafalo, chair)

• Bernard Gendron, "Why Jazz Lost to Rock 'n' Roll"
  
• Elizabeth Wells, "East Side, West Side: Musical Traditions and Identities in West Side Story"
  
• Theodore Matula, "The Social Construction of White Identity and Culture: Toward a Critique of Alternative Rock"
  
• Melissa West, "If Race Does Not Exist, What Is an Academic to Do? An Analysis of Jennifer Lopez's Music Video, 'My Love Don't Cost a Thing'"

9. Constructing Gender in Popular Music (Dina Gavrilos, chair)

• Nancy Gobatto, "The Un-Silenced Voice of Tori Amos"
  
• Caroline O'Meara, "Satisfying No One: Expressions of Female Subjectivity in Covers of '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'"
  
• Fred Maus, "Queer Authenticities"

Session 4: 4:00-5:45 p.m.

10. Hip Hop and Rave Cultures (Kai Fikentscher, chair)

• Amy Frishkey, "Contestations of Gendered Subjectivities in Trip Hop Music"
  
• Charity Marsh, [untitled, rave culture and political community]
  
• Marc Rice, "Words of a Criminal: Eminem and the Challenge of Hate"
  
• Doug Norman, "The Identity Politics of Queer Hip Hop"

11. Screening Music: Film and Video (Tim Anderson, chair)

• Lori Rowlett, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show as a Ritual of Queer Self-Fashioning"
  
• David Sanjek, "Rising Creatures: Popular Music Scoring in Kenneth Anger's 'Scorpio Rising' and Jack Smith's 'Flaming Creatures'"
  
• Carol Vernallis, "Processes, Series, Catalogues and Tableaux: How and Why Music Videos Eschew Classical Narratives"

12. Musical Masculinities (Steve Waksman, chair)

• Jacqueline Vreatt, "How Can I Be White, When I Don't Even Exist?: Eminem and Self-Construction as Marginalized Other"
  
• Barbara Ching, "Where Has the 'Free Bird' Flown, or, The Afterlife of Southern Rock"
  
• Eric Wood, "Blurring the Boundaries: Boy George and David Bowie's Redefinition of Masculinity in Late 20th Century Popular Culture"
  
• Theo Cateforis, "Real Men Don't Play Synthesizers"

Saturday, September 15

Session 1: 9:00-10:20 a.m.

13. Music and Technology: Recording and Reproduction (Jim Tracy, chair)

• Kyle Barnett, "The Domesticated Phonograph: Tastemaking, Advertising, and Recorded Sound in the Home, 1900-1930"
  
• Tony Grajeda, "The 'Sweet Spot': The Technology of Stereo and a Listening Subject"
  
• Jacob Smith, "Sound Screen: An Analysis of Audio Technicians Discourse on Digital Recording Technology"

14. Identities Under Construction (Kyra Gaunt, chair)

• Maria Johnson, "Big Ovaries Baby: Sexuality and Identity in Womenís Blues Today"
  
• Judith Casselberry, "Questioning Christian Imagery and Biblical Interpretation: The Funk of Me'Shell Ndegeocello"
  
• Nathan Hill, "Making a Difference: Performing Bodies in Popular Music"

15. National and Global Perspectives (René T.A Lysloff, chair)

• Frederick Crane, "The Trump: Isolation to Global Convergence in 14 Years"
  
• Adriana Martinez, "Hecho en Mexico: Nationalism and the Rise of Mexican Rock"
  
• Hee-Eun Lee, "Between Assimilation and Translation: Diasporic Musicians in Korean Popular Music"

Session 2: 10:30-11:50 a.m.

16. Music and Technology: Computerized Circuits (Wole Ife, chair)

• George Light, "Moby Disses Walter: Play in the Age of Digital (Re)production"
  
• Rob Sloane, "Listenership of One: New Music Technologies and the Marketing of Individualism"
  
• Arnold Wolfe, [untitled, Microsoft and the Internet]

17. Shifting Identities: Musical Articulations of the Other (Anahid Kassabian, chair)
Anahid Kassabian

• Claire Levy
  
• Barry Salmon
  

18. Gender, Sexuality and Popular Song in the Early Twentieth Century (Susan Cook, chair)

• Christina Baade, "Romance in the Desert: The Propaganda Trail of ëLili Marleneí"
  
• Christina Gier, "The Great War and the Fighting Soldier: Popular Song, Gender and American Sentiment"
  
• Alan Lareau, "Lila Lieder: Undermining Gender in Weimar Cabaret"

Session 3: 2:00-3:45 p.m.

19. Pressing Pop: Rock Criticism, Rock Writing (Deena Weinstein, chair/moderator)

• Jim DeRogatis, "Theyíre Talking a Lot, but Theyíre Not Saying Anything: Critical Hegemony in the Rock Media"
  
• Cynthia Fuchs, "Humble as a Mumble in the Jungle: Hip-Hop Journalism and Politics"
  
• Kembrew McLeod, "The Rock Critic Industrial Complex: The Political Economy of Popular Music Criticism"
  
• Thomas Swiss, "That's Me in the Spotlight: Rock Autobiography, Rock Criticism"

20. Popular Music in Europe (Matt Killmeier, chair)

• Kai Fikentscher, "Local vs. Global Issues in German DJ Culture"
  
• Bjorn Ingvoldstad, "Identity and Difference in Lithuanian Pop: Three Case Studies"
  
• Kristin Solli, "Twangin' the Vernacular: Country Music and National Identity in Norway"

21. Representing Blackness in American Popular Music

• Larissa Faulkner, "Selling ëResistanceí to the Other: Harry Belafonte and the Performance of Difference"
  
• Michael Stephens, "Love: Seven and Seven Is"
  
• Jeff Sprague, "Visions of Race, Sounds of Soul: Concert Films in a Time of Black Power"
  
• Mark Anthony Neal, "Thug Niggas Need Love Too: The Revisionist Soul(s) of R. Kelly and Dave Hollister"

Session 4: 4:00-6:00 p.m. (Plenary session)

22. Girls Can't Do What the Boys Can Do: A Roundtable Discussion on Gender, Authenticity, and Popular Music (Norma Coates, chair)

• Jacqueline Warwick
  
• Susan Cook
  
• Steve Waksman
  
• Louis Niebur
  
• Kyra Gaunt