Draft program

8:30 a.m.

Conference registration opens. 1st floor lobby.

Sale to benefit Freedom of the Press Foundation - 8th floor lobby.

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Vendor Hall opens. First floor, room 150

A1. Identity, Gender, and the Self

Josh Friedberg - “On Dancing While White, Gay, and Disabled–and the Perfect Remix for Me,”

Marine Lambolez - “Pop Concerts as Third Places for Feminine and Queer Joy”

Claire Nistler - “Free to Be Complicated: Free to Be…You and Me, Children’s Understanding of Gender Complexities, and Contradictions in Audience Reception”

Olivia Marr - “’Kiss Me Quick and Go!’ Romance, Courtship, and Kissing in 19th & 20th Century Popular Sheet Music”

Lando C. Tosaya - “From Silence to Spotlight: Queer Visibility from the HIV/AIDS Crisis to the Commodification of Queerness in Contemporary Pop Culture“

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

A2. Protest and Politics

Steve Clairmont - “Protest Music in the Time of Trump”

Bradley Morgan - “Frank Zappa’s America”

Rosa Eberly - “Sampling Harry Shearer”

Allison Broesder - “The Unheeded Warning: How Year Zero Predicted the Rise of American Authoritarianism “

10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

B1. Reading K-Pop

Abby Kirby - “K-Pop Demon Hunter and Fans as Commodity”

Lauren O'Connor - “California (Teenage) Dreamin’ with K-Pop's BoyNextDoor”

Lisa Rothman - “‘This Is What It Sounds Like’: The Power of Vulnerability in Fighting Our ‘Demons’ and Becoming Our ‘Golden’ Selves”

Carrie Stern - “Dying Twice: BTS's "Black Swan”

B2. Remix

Benjamin Penwell - “Pop Approaches to Metalcore Production”

Michael LaRocco - “The Bold and the Brutal-full: the “Extreme Pop" of Heavy Metal”

Owen Smith - “Perennially Pop: The Many Lives and Fortunes of the Carmina Burana”

Josh Ramon and Andrew Pope - “Echoes, Blankets, & Covers: Digital Reorchestration and Storytelling”

Michael Dando - “Remixing Hip Hop Comics: Cultural Intraction for Social Change”

B3. Audio Preservation

Joe Tessone - Mystery Street

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

C1. Keynote Speaker

Jim DeRogatis, professor, podcast host and author

Book sale/signing immediately following

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

D1. Music History and the Industry

Kevin Howley - “Music For End Times: Reflections on College Radio––From the Old School”

Audrey Cullen - “Art vs. Asset: Wu-Tang and the Contradictions of Musical Value”

Walter Podrazik - "You Can't Do That! (Sez Who?): Wrestling for Control of Creator Content on Modern Music Platforms"

Mark Reynolds - “A Dollar and A Dream: The Hidden History of Black Entrepreneurs in Music from Ragtime to Rap”

Dewitt King - “Play Reimagined: AI and the Disrupted Production of Black Creative Geographies”

D2. Reading Music in Fiction

Lori Rader-Day, Michelle Falkoff, and James DF Hannah

D3. Recording Studio: The Music Industry

Gravity Studio

2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

E1. Keynote Speaker

Francesca Royster, professor and author

Book sale/signing immediately following

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

F1. Music and Meaning

Susan Hatters Friedman - “The Cure and Mental Health: From Robert Smith’s ‘Just Like Heaven’ to ‘A Letter to Elise’”

Kristin Noone - “Classic Rock, Christmas Carols, and Community: Book Playlists as Social Paratexts”

Michael Denslow - “And We Know We Shall Win: Remembering Sinead O’Connor, Who Was Right About Everything”

Abdul-Malik Ryan - “Crossing the Divide: Islam, Conversion, and the Sacred/Secular in Pop Music”

F2. Music Fandom

Olivia Sadler - “TikTok and The Lived Experience of Concerts”

Danielle Momoh - “’she needed her own edit moment.’: Fan Labor, Intense Clutter and Other Sources of Contemporary Video Edits’ Disruptive Affects”

Macaila Britton - “Discussing Taylor Swift”

Carey Millsap-Spears - “Fan for Life: 50 Years of U2”

Rimon-Hadassah Walker - “What Do You Do With a Dead Space Pirate?: Post-Object Fandom of the Mechanisms”

F3. Genre Boundaries and Crossings

Rob Levy - “Pet Shop Boys and the Limitless Power of Pop”

Karma Waltonen & Denise Du Vernay - “Dare to be Stupid: The Keys to Weird Al’s Success”

Anton Dubois - “Nostalgia and Reinvention in blink-182’s California”

Morgan McFadden - “How Pink Pantheress Remixed the Pop Star Blueprint”

4:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.

G1. Music in Movies and Theatre

Rosa Eberly - “The Logic of “This Is Spinal Tap” is Real”

Lindsay Thobe - “The Films of John Carney and Making Music That Tells a Story”

Tom Ue - “The Tentativeness of Hue Park’s and Will Aronson’s Maybe Happy Ending”

Sasha Young* - “Divas, Dames, and the Damned: The Competitive Nature of Musical Theatre”

Kristofer Starzomski* - “To Light Our Darkest Hour: The Persistent and Emotional Power of 1980s Synth in The Transformers: The Movie (1986) Soundtrack”

William Bonfiglio* - “‘Draw Me Like One of Your French (Canadian) Girls’: Remixing Céline Dion into Contemporary Musical Theatre”

G2. Fan Vidding

Samantha Close & Anne Collins Smith, Maestras