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Pop Convergence 2021

The 2021 Pop Convergence: A Virtual Pop Conference, April 22-25th
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10:00am PDT

Hope in Darkness: Music That Reclaimed Our Joy (Room B: Oscillator) Room B: OscillatorChris Molanphy • Meagan Sylvester • Michelle Villegas Threadgould • Solvej Schou • Lynn Brown Revolutions or Spinning Wheels? JPMS at 33.3 (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchEric Weisbard • Jonathan Leal • Jonathan Sterne • Karen Tongson • Jennifer Messelink

11:15am PDT

Bonus Beats 1 Both Room A+BMichelle Habell-Pallán • Lysa Flores • Computerwife

11:30am PDT

Dance Dance (Music) Revolution (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchAnn Powers • Christina Zanfagna • Alex La Rotta • Carmela Muzio Dormani • Kwabena Prentiss Slaughter The Quarantine Boogie: Music in the Times of Pandemics (Room B: Oscillator) Room B: OscillatorCharles L. Hughes • Jabari Evans • Leigh H. Edwards • Jessica Cassyle Carr • Dan Margolies • J.A. Strub

12:45pm PDT

Bonus Beats 2 Both Room A+BCharles McGovern

1:00pm PDT

Prince: Disrupting Notions of Blackness (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchMichaelangelo Matos • De Angela L. Duff • Kamilah Cummings • C Liegh McInnis Staying Flux-ible: Artists Adapting to Change (Room B: Oscillator) Room B: OscillatorBrittany Spanos • Hilarie Ashton • Katherine Morayati • Charlotte Murtishaw • Paula Clare Harper

2:15pm PDT

Bonus Beats 3 Both Room A+BMichelle Habell-Pallán • Maya Jupiter

2:30pm PDT

Black Music at its Interstices: From “Coon Songs” to Hip Hop (Room B: Oscillator) Room B: OscillatorAlisha Lola Jones • Ambre Dromgoole • Beza Fekade • Zalika U. Ibaorimi • Matthew D. Morrison ruins, rebellion, & resurgence (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchHolly Kruse • Carleton S. Gholz • Alfred Soto • Tara Lopez • Lisa Pollock Mumme

3:45pm PDT

Bonus Beats 4 Both Room A+BMelissa A. Weber • Gina Kronstadt • Livia O

4:00pm PDT

Black Critics Matter (Room B: Oscillator) Room A: Sky ChurchKimberly Mack • Thulani Davis • Daphne A. Brooks • Greg Tate • Danyel Smith • Wesley Morris “South Gotta Change”: Southern Music in a Moment of Transformation (Room A: Sky Church) Room B: OscillatorCharles L. Hughes • David Cantwell • Amanda Martinez • Andrea Williams

5:15pm PDT

Flower Bomb Friday: Songs In the Key of Stevie Wonder (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchMorgan Rhodes • Hans Elder • Joy Trible

6:15pm PDT

The Power of Club Quarantine: A Special Conversation with D-Nice and Jason King about Uniting the World Through Music in Times of Flux (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchJason King • D-Nice

7:00pm PDT

The Flaming? Midnight Musical (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchAlisha Lola Jones • LaQuentin “Q” Jenkins • Tamara Jade • Charles Anthony Bryant • Larry Brownlee • Angela Marie Jones • Patrick Dailey • Harold Wheat • Philip Bingham