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Schedule, IASPM-US

Conference 1999 as of 9/15

Middle Tennessee State U.

Murfreesboro, TN 9/30-10/3



Thursday Evening 9/30


Garden Plaza Hotel


8 PM- Keynote Presentation--
Amy Rigby- Koch Recording Artist

9PM- Welcome Reception--
No-host bar, live music by:
Wash Jones Blues Project. IASPM
attendees invited to sit in.

Friday October 1- Bragg Mass Comm. Bldg. MTSU
9AM-10:45 Session 1.0 Welcomes/Plenary: A Thousand Flowers Blooming or a Tower of Babel: The Proliferation of Approaches and Methodologies in Popular Music Studies

Session 2, 11AM-12:30
2.1- GIRLING
 Chair: TBA
Melanie Lowe, Girl Power?: Ethnography & Teen Pop Culture
 Holly Alloway, Considering The Spice Girls
Kembrew MacLeod, 4 Stars: A Critique of Rock Criticism

2.2 NOSTALGIA/MEMORY
 Chair: Pete McCluskey
Eric Martin Usner, Nostalgia In Neo-Swing Culture
Theo Cateforis, Welcome To Poptopia: Power Pop and the Mining of Rocks Past
Steve Waksman, The Power of the Past: Vintage Guitars and the Politics of Nostalgia

2.3 FEELING EXCITED INSIDE: UTOPIAN HOPE AND JAZZ OF THE 1960s
 Chair: Peter McClusky
Eric Neel, Music That Does Things to People That They Need: The Unpopular Sound of John Coltranes Meditations and the Promising Labor of Listening
Gwen Robertson, Learning From Silence: Romare Beardon and the Commitment to the Seeing Potential of Jazz
Ricahrd Quinn, The Second Great Miles Davis Quintet: Decoding Musical Meaning In 1960s America
LUNCH 12:30 - 1:30
Session 3, 1:45 - 3:15
3.1 SOUTH ASIAN MATTERS
 Chair: Dirk von der Horst
Gregory Booth, Hits in the Hands of the Outcastes: Indian Wedding Musicians and the Ritual Consumption of Hindi Film Song
Paul Greene, Popular Music Consumption in a South Indian Village
Jeffrey Callen, The Message: Music and Popular Culture in the Hindu Nationalist Movement

3.2 VISUALIZATIONS
 Chair, Matthew OBrien
Ronald D. Cohen, Packaging Folk Music: The Iconography of the Revival, 1950s-1960s
Steve Jones & Martin Sorger, Covering Music: Album Covers, Art and Industry
Kyra D. Gaunt, TLCs Contradictory Freedom: Representing Roots, Rights, Reality and Justice in a Crazy-Sexy-Cool Black Music Video


FRIDAY 10/1 1:45-3:15 (cont.)
3.3 PANEL: DEFINING MOMENTS: MUSIC, POLITICS, AND THE CONSUMPTION OF IDENTITY
 Chair, TBA
Michael Elavsky, Ahoj, Jsem Radek: Radek Pastrnak, Buty, and the New Face of the Czech Republic
Elizabeth Perea, Lyrical Identities: The Contra-Positioning of Women in the Works of Ani DiFranco
Robert Sloan, Distinction In Popular Music: Audiences
Gregory Barz, Beyond Benga: Popular Gospel Music In North Kenya

SESSION 4 3:30 - 5PM
4.1 CONSTRUCTING BLACKNESS/ MALENESS/FEMALENESS
 Chair, TBA
Mike Daley, But Nobody Can Sing The Blues Like Blind Willie McTell: Representations of the Other in the Blues Canon
Maria Johnson, Old, New Borrowed and Blue: Uppity Womens Blues of the 1980s and 1990s
Yuko Sato Nakamura, What Is Signifyin?: Close Reading of Black Masculinity ina Betty Boop Cartoon

4.2 CROSSING LINES
 Chair, Kevin Clifton
Bill Barlow, Radio and Racial Ventrilogy: Criss Crossing the Color Line on the Airways
Mark Hayward, On Harry Belafonte
Fred Maus, Being Ambivalent: Dating The Pet Shop Boys

4.3 AUTHOR, AUTEUR
 Chair, Dirk von der Horst
Christopher Coulter, Idiot Wind: The Reception of Bob Dylan As Generation Spokesman
David Sumway, The Fiction of Confession: Joni Mitchell and the Singer-Songwriters
Trent Hill, Insurgency, Resurgency, States of Emergency, or the Dialectic of Authenticity and Legitimation in 1960s Rock

4.4 INTERLUDES
 Chair, TBA
Beth Aracena, The Instrumental Interlude as Unspoken Memory in Pop Songs
Todd Starkweather, About A Boy
Michael Harrington, Recent Copyright Infringement: the Fugees, Puff Daddy and Sting


FRIDAY EVENING, 8:00

GARDEN PLAZA HOTEL
Panel discussion on Music Censorship with invited guests.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 2

BRAGG MASS COMM. -MTSU


SESSION 5 9:15 - 10:45 AM
5.1 HISTORY & HISTORIOGRAPHY
 Chair, Jeff Melnick
David Sanjek, Stories We Could Tell: Popular Music Historiography and the Nature Of Narrative
Jason Oakes, Historicizing Popular Music: New Trends in Mass-Mediated Reception
Dale Cockrell, Putting Life and Mettle In The Heels of the Idle and Lewd: Brothels and the Birth of Popular Musics
Tony Grajeda, Gendered Machines of the Audible
SATURDAY 10/2 9:15-10:45 (cont.)
5.2 THINKING GENDER, MAKING MUSIC
 Chair, Kyle Edwards
John Sloop, Consuming kd lang: the Politics of Ambiguity
Mark Anthony Neal, Another Man Is Beating My Time: Gender and Sexuality in Black Popular Music
Melissa West and Charity Marsh, Gender and Technology as Read Through Madonna and Bjork

5.3 IN COUNTRY COUNTRY
 Charles Wolfe, Roy Acuff, The Great Speckled Bird and the Church of God
Beverly Keel, Shania and Country Music: Ever The Twain Shall Meet
Gary Hodgin, Country Music and the Economy
Tom Hutchison, Fan Fair fans: The Annual Pilgrimage to Country Musics Mecca

SESSION 6 11AM -12:30 PM
6.1 GENRE BENDING IN PROD- UCTION AND CONSUMPTION
 Chair, Michelle Wallace
Luke Howard, Gorecki In Pop/ Gorecki Is Pop: A Classical Composers Influence on Recent Commercial Music
Kirsten Yri, Industrial Resistance or Sacred Desire or How Ambient World Meets Industrial
Jason Middleton, Eclectic Listening and Youth Cultural Identity in the Late 1990s

6.2 PANEL- BEING AND CONSUMING
 Kathleen Iudicello, Women Take the Stage: 90s White Mainstream Punk
Gayle Wald, Popular Music, the Girling of the Market and the Marketing of Girlhood
Rich Hancuff, Revolution Through Hype: Propaganda Consumption and the Nation of Ulysses/Make Up
Cynthia Fuchs, Hit me baby one more time: consuming pop-sex

 6.3 PANEL- LOCAL SCENE/ GLOBAL CULTURE: PLACE AND POPULAR MUSIC
 Chair, TBA
 Cotton Seiler, Something In The Water: Louisville and the Indie Consumption Ethic
Craig Robertson, The Myth of the Dunedin Sound
Robert Vodicka, This Fucking City is Run By Pigs: Black Flags Police Story

LUNCH 12:30 - 2PM
SESSION 7 2PM - 3:30
7.1 REVIVAL OF OBSOLESCENCE
 Chair, Leslie Gay
 John D. Seibert-Davis, Not Quite Dead: Vinyl Records and the Consumption Of Obsolete Media
Stan Link, The Work of Reproduction in the Mechanical Aging of an Art: Noise and the New Nostalgia
Joseph H. Auner, Making Old Machines Speak: Images of Technology in Recent Music

7.2 ALTERNATIVITY/SELLING OUT
 Chair, Rich Dowell
Marianne Tatom, Guided By . . . Profit?
Josh Heuman, This Is Not A Fugazi Shirt
Lisa Soccio, Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables: Jello Biafra As Organic Intellectual

7.3 JAPANESE MATTERS
 Chad David Jones, Traditions in Transition: Models of Tradition in Contemporary Japanese Karaoke Singing
Jason J. Hanley, NEO GEO: Ryuichi Sakamoto and the Globalization of Music
Randall Clark, Lets Knife: The Influences of American Culture on Contemporary Japanese Rock Music

7.4 IDENTITIES, COMMUNITIES AND CULTURAL TOURISM
 Chair, TBA
Fay Akindes, Sounds Hawaiian: Music, Identity and Tourism
Johnathan Grasse, DJ Orpheu: Brazilian Rap
Blase Scarnati, Bordertown Punk: Blackfire and its Listeners at the Edge of the Navajo
Helena Simonett, Prohibited/ Corridos
SESSION 8 3:45 - 5:15
8.1 TRAFFICKING BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW
 Chair, TBA
Kevin Holm-Hudson, So You Want To Be an Avant-Garde Star: The Rock Marketing of Philip Glass
David Brackett, Postmodern Theory and the Contemporary Musical Field
Bernard Gendron, Art Versus Entertainment In Music: Is there a Difference That Makes a Difference?

8.2 MUSIC VIDEOS, CONSTRUCTED & MARKETED
 Chair, TBA
Cheryl L. Keyes, Visualizing Beats and Rhymes: An Interpretive Model For Rap Music Videos
Susan C. Cook, Talking Machines, Moving Bodies: Consuming Dance Music Before World War I
Carol Vernallis, The Kindest Cut: Functions and Meanings of Music Video Editing

8.3 CULTURAL MEMORY, CLASSICAL EARS, AND RESISTING RESISTANCE
 Chair, TBA
Bruce Horner, Resisting Student Resistance to the Study of Popular Music
Roger Johnson, Music and Memory
Michael Jarrett, Derailing the Classical Ear

8.4 PANEL WOMEN IN ROCK ON WOMEN IN ROCK
 Norma Coates, Cynthia Fuchs, Amy Rigby

9.0 PLENARY: IASPM-US CHAPTER BUSINESS MEETING AND AWARDS

Sunday 10/3 Garden Plaza Hotel-- Look For The Book Auction !!


SESSION 10- 9 - 10:15 AM-SALON

10.0 IS MUSIC, IS NOT MUSIC
 Chair, TBA
Martin Roberts, Tribal Warfare: Sound Systems and Party Politics in 1990s Britain
Andrew Herman, On Ubiquitous Musics
Barry Salman, Ubiquitous Music, World Musical Culture and the Negative Gesamtkunstwerk
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SUNDAY 9 - 10:15 (cont.)
Anahid Kassabian, The Music No One Listens To

SESSION 11- 10:30-11:45
 11.0 PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION IDENTITY ACROSS BORDERS
 Chair, TBA
Nancy Kowalczyk, Finally Music I Can Relate To: The Role of Female Musicians In The Lesbian Community
Geoff Stahl, From Vieux Montreal to Mile End: Anglophone Music-Making in Montreal
Peter Urquhart, Puck Rock: Maple Leaf Branding and Pop Music in Canada
Paul Greene, Popular Music Consumption in a South Indian Village

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