Pop Conference 2016

Kembrew McLeod is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He has published and produced several books and documentaries about music and popular culture, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, and Rolling Stone. Kembrew’s book Freedom of... Read More →

Greil Marcus is the author most recently of Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations, Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014, and The History of  rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs. A sixth revised edition of his first book, Mystery Train, was published in 2015. This... Read More →

Evie Nagy is the author of the 33 1/3 book on Devo’s Freedom of Choice, and a former staff writer and editor at Fast Company, Rolling Stone, and Billboard. Her work was published in Best Music Writing 2010 and she co-wrote the afterword to Out of the Vinyl Deeps, an anthology of... Read More →

Sean Nelson is a Seattle writer, musician, and actor. He has recorded and performed with Harvey Danger, Robyn Hitchcock, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Nada Surf, The Long Winters, and as a solo artist. He wrote the 33 1/3 book Joni Mitchell Court & Spark and has been published... Read More →