2012 EMP Pop Conference

Alexandra Apolloni is a doctoral candidate at UCLA, where she is writing a dissertation on British girl singers in the 1960s, and issues of race and femininity. She is also editor of Echo: a music-centered journal, and contributes to Blogging.LA, a group blog about Los Angeles.   Abstract:"Beat... Read More →

Leah Branstetter is a PhD student at Case Western Reserve University, where she focuses her research on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American popular music, theater music, and opera. She also serves as an editorial assistant for the Journal of the American Musicological Society... Read More →

Elizabeth Lindau is a Ph.D. candidate in Critical and Comparative Studies in Music at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation, “Art is Dead. Long Live Rock!” explores rock’s revitalization of avant-gardism. She has presented at meetings of the IASPM-U.S., the Society for... Read More →

Marilisa Merolla is Assistant Professor in Contemporary History, Mass Communication History and City and Landscape History at Department of Social Sciences of “Sapienza” University of Rome. She is the Principal Investigator of the Research Program The sounds of the city. The metamorphosis... Read More →