2012 EMP Pop Conference

Banning Eyre is an author, guitarist, radio producer, journalist, and Senior Editor at afropop.org. His work with the public radio series Afropop Worldwide has taken him to over a dozen African countries to research local music, especially guitar styles. He comments on world music... Read More →

Maysan Haydar has been on staff at culture and news magazines, and has essays in the anthologies Body Outlaws (Seal Press) and Damage Control (HarperCollins). She spent several semesters studying in Damascus, Syria. Abstract:"Wild in the (Arab) Streets: Songs for the Revolutions" Along... Read More →

Katherine Meizel is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University. She has published in Slate.com, Popular Music & Society, and other journals and collections. Her book Idolized: Music, Media, and Identity in American Idol (Indiana University Press) was... Read More →

Hypatia Vourloumis received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University. She is a lecturer at the International Centre of Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies and Drury University Centre in Greece and has recently edited an anthology on contemporary Indonesian performance... Read More →