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KEXP is proud to present the following selection of presentations from the Pop Conference:
I'm Not a Rapper: Pride, Professionalism, and Hip-Hop
A Sorry Career in the Punk Rock Trenches
Why Orphaned Fanworlds Survive
The Centrality Of Cuban Music
I Was Going To Name This Paper After A Famous Song, But The Label Demanded Five Grand And The Publisher Wanted Half Of Any Money It Ever Earned: Why Every Artist Should Be Horrified By Sampling Laws
You're a Big Girl Now: Thoughts on Rock Adulthood
Taxonomizing Sludge
In Search of The Blues
The April 2002 event, "Crafting Sounds, Creating Meaning: Making Popular Music in the US," included presentations on topics such as Bjork, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jimi Hendrix and black culture, early hip-hop in the Bronx, and the history of the blues and Led Zeppelin.
Experience Music Project's second Pop Conference, "Skip a Beat: Rewriting the Story of Popular Music" was held in Seattle in April 2003. Over 100 presentations were given on topics from Bob Dylan, sampling, to African music, jazz fusion and rock's avant-garde.
Preeminent conference participants have included Greil Marcus, Robert Christgau, Simon Frith, Jon Langford, Carrie Brownstein, Robert Walser, Ann Powers, Shannon Dudley, Luc Sante, Jon Pareles, Gary Giddins, Kelefa Sanneh, and the Ego Trip Collective.
As Eric Weisbard, the event organizer and Senior Program Manager in EMP's Education Department, explains: "There are no rules about what you can write about. There are no rules about how you can say what you have to say. And so you'll find here jovial essays, learned inquisitions, lifelong obsessions and punk rock rants. The subjects range all over the map – like music itself."
For more information on the conference,
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