Pop Conference 2016

Ginger Dellenbaugh is a cultural critic, musician, and professor at The New School, where she teaches about music, politics, and the voice. A trained opera singer, she performed for over a decade in Europe and the U.S. In 2015, she released the album Pastorale. Dellenbaugh lives in... Read More →

Masi Asare is a songwriter, voice coach, and PhD candidate in Performance Studies at New York University. Her voice students perform on Broadway, in touring productions, and at downtown rock/pop venues. Her songwriting has received honors from ASCAP, the Dramatists Guild, and the... Read More →

Cain Cressall has been an extreme vocalist for more than a decade with Australian thrash metal band Malignant Monster, based in Western Australia. Since 2009, Cain Cressall has also fronted international touring band The Amenta, an experimental metal group based in the Eastern States... Read More →

Laura Glitsos is completing a doctoral dissertation on the impacts of digital music on the emotional dimensions of music listening. She has lectured at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University in popular music studies and has previously lectured in communication studies, cultural... Read More →

Jake Johnson is a cultural historian of American musical experiences. His work has been published in This Land Press, TEMPO, Echo: A Music-Centered Journal, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and Journal of the Society for American Music. Jake is completing his PhD in musicology... Read More →