Barry Shank, “All Your Rock Critic Friends Think Brian Wilson
Must Have Died”
Kevin Fellezs, “Another Song: Contemplating Karen Carpenter’s
Suburban Soul Music and An Aesthetics of Mainstream Pop”
Kevin Gaines, “Beyond Soul: The Case of Stevie Wonder, Jazz-Pop, and Music that will Last Forever”
Jessica Wood, “Noise and the Canon: The Meaning of Classical Music
in Late-1960s Rock”
Moderator: Andrew Bienen
Mashadi Matabane, “‘All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave’: The Cultural Politics of Black Women Musicians with an ‘Axe’ to Grind”
Laina Dawes, “‘Black Metal is not for n@#$s, stupid b@#h!’: Black Female Metal Fans’ Inter/External Culture Clash”
Birgitta J. Johnson, “Women of the L.A. ‘Undergrind’: Female Artists Creating Alternatives to Mainstream Hip-hop’s Plastic Ceiling”
Moderator: Meagan Sylvester
The 2007 arrest of DJ Drama for copyright infringement signaled to that the era of rap mixtapes as both in the street and online had unalterably changed. We propose to examine what has been lost—or gained—from the disappearance of physical mixtape culture, both from its attendant spaces in the city and from the popular conversation. Where does
“authority” now lie in “making” and “breaking” such artists and how has this changed how they themselves make music and how it’s consumed?
With: Zach Baron, Tom Breihan, Ryan Dombal, Sean Fennessey,
Nick Sylvester, and Jamin Warren
Moderator: Sean Fennessey
Daphne Brooks, “‘One of These Mornings, You’re Gonna Rise up Singing’: The Secret Black Feminist History of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess”
Farah Jasmine Griffin, “Playing through the Changes: Mary Lou Williams’ Manhattan”
Salamishah Tillet, “Bethlehem, Boardwalks, and the City of Brotherly Love: Nina Simone’s Pre-Civil Rights Aesthetic”
Jayna Brown, “After the End of the World: Afro Diasporan Feminism
and Alternative Dimensions of Sound”
Moderator and Respondent: Imani Perry
Jake Austen, “Icons of Obstinacy: The Urban Enablement of Rock ‘n’ Roll Delusionals 1980s-1990s”
Katherine Meizel, “Size Matters: ‘Mini-Popstars’ and New Dimensions of Celebrity Impersonation”
Eric Hung, “Stayin’ Alive: Senior Citizen Choirs Rocking Out in Korea, China and the U.S.”
Moderator: Carl Wilson
Sonnet Retman, “Muddy the Waters: Other Stories of Love and Theft in the Making of the Delta Blues”
David Suisman, “The Urban Ear of Tony Schwartz”
Franklin Bruno, “Who Put the Arrow in ‘Cupid’? Hugo and Luigi’s Schlock ‘n’ Soul”
Moderator: Greil Marcus
How can editors balance the demands for revenue-generating pageviews and the idea of serving their local communities? Should musicians go the shock-tactic route and try to become memes in an effort to transcend their geographic standing? Is the Internet becoming its own “local scene”? The panelists heading up this roundtable are journalists from markets large and small who have had weary showdowns with Google Analytics, but we encourage all those interested in the current state of local scenes to enter the fray.
With: Reed Fischer, David Malitz, Andrea Swensson, Christopher Weingarten, and Ryan White
Moderator: Maura Johnston
