EMP Conference Makes It Okay to Think About Pop

The Stranger;  April 19, 2007 ;     578 words ......Time, and Place The 2007 Pop Conference at Experience Music Project...course hipsters hate the EMP Pop Conference. A balding middle-aged dork...better. Thank heavens for the Pop Conference's over-the-top academic pop...

Shame of the Game

The Stranger;  May 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Casual vs. Serious at the EMP Pop Conference by Matt Corwine AT THE OPENING plenary...the Experience Music Project's 2006 Pop Conference, I watched 100 people sit quietly and...guardians and gatekeepers of culture. The Pop Conference attracts a few very serious music people-t...

SCHOOL OF ROCK THE SEVENTH ANNUAL EMP POP CONFERENCE GRABS THE HEARTS AND...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 10, 2008 ;     654 words ......ROSS SIMONINI Special to the P-I The annual Pop Conference at the Experience Music Project is a global...editor of The Believer magazine. The annual Pop Conference at the Experience Music Project is a global...interior decoration consists of CD towers, the Pop Conference is one of ...

Pop's the topic of free, 4-day gathering at Seattle's EMP.(Experience...

Seattle Times (Seattle, WA);  April 15, 2007 ;     484 words ......popular music for four days at the 2007 Pop Conference at Experience Music Project, Thursday...Web site explains. This year's EMP Pop Conference is all about those reverberations...seattletimes.com Conference preview 2007 Pop Conference: Waking up from History: Music, Time...

THIS YEAR'S POP CONFERENCE WILL EXPLORE MUSIC'S ARTIFICIAL ASPECTS.(What's...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 15, 2005 ;     646 words ...Byline: GENE STOUT P-I pop music critic Pop Conference organizer Eric Weisbard admits the public is often puzzled...Weisbard quipped. This is a 100-percent-guaranteed fake pop conference. A panel titled My Other Life includes four individuals...

FUCKING IN THE STREETS

The Stranger;  April 26, 2007 ;     551 words ...NEAR MYTHS OF KLAXONS I'm still drunk. I'm also still kind of hungover, intellectually, from the EMP Pop Conference. So my take on Klaxons' Seattle debut earlier tonight-April 23-at the Crocodile might not be entirely accurate, as I'm probably...

One blindfold, two earplugs, nine years

Evening Standard - London;  November 29, 2001 ;     700+ words ......masterpiece everyone is talking about. Alex Bilmes meets novelist Jonathan Franzen, below I AM writing this on my computer in a small...difficult to type but this - according to the American novelist Jonathan Franzen, author of the current publishing sensation The...

SHOW ME THE MONEY

The Village Voice;  April 27, 2005 ;     700+ words ......by inclusive intentions alone There's full disclosure, and then there's tooting your own horn. I keynoted the first EMP Pop Conference in 2002, served on its program committee in 2002 and 2003, and have spoken there four years running. The conference organizers...

Arts Planner

Portland Press Herald (Maine);  September 25, 2005 ;     224 words ......FINAL Section: Audience Column: Arts Planner THIS WEEK Novelist Jonathan Lethem, son of Maine painter Richard Brown Lethem and recipient...Beethoven and Strauss. Illustrations/Photos: Caption: Novelist Jonathan Lethem will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday at Space Gallery in...

One blindfold, two earplugs, nine years.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  November 29, 2001 ;     700+ words ......masterpiece everyone is talking about. Alex Bilmes meets novelist Jonathan Franzen, below I AM writing this on my computer in a small...difficult to type but this - according to the American novelist Jonathan Franzen, author of the current publishing sensation The...

SLIPKNOT'S MAKING THE MOST OF ITS GHOULISH FIGURE.(What's Happening)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 15, 2005 ;     244 words ...Slipknot is a perfect example of the role of artifice and theatrics in popular music, the key theme of the Pop Conference at the Experience Music Projectthis weekend. With their Halloween-party face masks and demonic passion for aggressive music...

THIS IS POP: IN SEARCH OF THE ELUSIVE AT EXPERIENCE MUSIC PROJECT

The Village Voice;  May 26, 2004 ;     351 words ......if implicit claim made by this batch of papers (many from Voice writers) given at the Experience Music Project's annual Pop Conference, and you can bet I'm as skeptical as the next Top 40 fan allergic to academia: My abstract got rejected. (Whatever, guys-whi...

The Re-Entroducer

The Village Voice;  May 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Professor, blogger, DJ, curator, and music zealot Oliver Wang reveals even more Soul Sides It's the last day of this year's EMP Pop Conference in Seattle, the annual convening of music critics and academic scholars helmed by the Experience Music Project museum. For...

Novelist's biography honour.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  June 15, 2005 ;     73 words ...THE novelist Jonathan Coe last night won a [pounds sterling]30,000 prize for his biography of another writer. Like a Fiery Elephant, the life story of...

Novelist Bids for Eagles' Guitar

AP Online;  June 11, 2002 ;     125 words ...00-00-0000 DALLAS (AP) _ Best-selling novelist Jonathan Kellerman placed the winning online auction bid for a guitar signed by Don Henley and his fellow Eagles bandmates. Henley is donating...