2012 EMP Pop Conference

Columbia University Andrew Bienen is the co-writer of the Academy Award winning movie, Boys Don’t Cry. He is an Associate Professor of Screenwriting at Columbia University’s Graduate Film Division and has also taught at La Femis (Paris), New York University, and the New School. He has an MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia, and an M.A. in English from the University of Virginia. He has written screenplays for Dreamworks and New Line Cinema... Read More →

Kevin Fellezs is assistant professor of Music with an appointment in the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He earned his PhD in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz in 2004. He is the author of Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk and the Creation of Fusion Music (Duke, 2011) and of several articles on black-Asian musical exchanges.   Abstract: | | "Another Song: Contemplating Karen Carpenter's... Read More →

Kevin Gaines is the Robert Hayden Collegiate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, at the University of Michigan. He is author of Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture During the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 1996), and American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (UNC Press, 2006).   Abstract... Read More →

Barry Shank teaches in the department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is author of Dissonant Identities: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Scene in Austin, Texas and A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture. Currently serving as President of the U.S. branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular music, he is completing a book for Duke University Press entitled “Silence... Read More →

Jessica Wood received a PhD in Musicology from Duke University, defending a dissertation on the post-World War II significance of the harpsichord, which is now being revised for book publication. She teaches classes on popular music at Duke, where she also works as a reference archivist at the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.   Abstract: | | "Noise and the Canon: The Meaning of Classical Music in Late-1960s Rock" During the... Read More →