2012 EMP Pop Conference

J.D. Considine is a critic, musician and recovering otaku. He is jazz critic at The Globe and Mail, and writes for Revolver, Bass Player and Downbeat.   Abstract:"Tokyo Style Wars: Death metal, Shibuya-kei and Social Status in Detroit Metal City" Kiminori Wakasugi’s manga Detroit... Read More →

Aliza Shvarts is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at NYU, where she writes on figuration and failure. Her artwork, which achieved brief infamy when she was an undergraduate at Yale, explored similar themes. Currently, she is a managing editor of the performance studies journal... Read More →

Jeremy Wallach is author of Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997-2001 (2008) and co-editor of Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World (2012). A cultural anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, he is an associate professor in the Department of... Read More →