Pop Conference 2016

Michaelangelo Matos is the author of The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America. He is at work on a history of the music business in the mid-’80s. He lives in the Twin Cities. “Prisoner of Your Love: How Tina Turner Came Back”“What can you say... Read More →

A rock critic since 1967, Robert Christgau runs his “Expert Witness” column weekly at Noisey.com. He is a visiting professor in NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music who has published five books based on his journalism as well as the Oprah-certified 2015 memoir Going Into... Read More →

Lara Langer Cohen is Assistant Professor of English at Swarthmore College. The author of The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture (2011) and co-editor of Early African American Print Culture (2012), she has also published essays on subjects... Read More →

Eric Weisbard is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama, author of Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music, and organizer of the EMP Pop Conference since its inception in 2002. “A Critical Guide to the Literature of American Popular... Read More →