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Pop Convergence 2021

The 2021 Pop Convergence: A Virtual Pop Conference, April 22-25th
Artwork by Alex Nero; Design by The Art Dictator

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10:00am PDT

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

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

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

10:00am PDT

What is the Creative? Rethinking the Social Value of Creativity in the Absence of Live Space (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchTavia Nyong'o • Freda Knowles (she/her) • Christian Scott • Shabaka Hutchings • Sarah Elizabeth Charles • Samora Pinderhughes • Talib Nelson

11:15am PDT

Bonus Beats 5 Both Room A+BMichelle Habell-Pallán • Quetzal • Océane

11:30am PDT

Pop Musicking and Survivance in Native North Pacific Communities (Room B: Oscillator) Room B: OscillatorJessica Bissett Perea (Dena’ina) • John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache, Irish, Chicano, German) • SimHayKin Swawilla Jack (San Poil/Nez Perce/Moses-Columbia/ Nespelem/Lakota) • Tory Johnston (Quinault) • Jack Flesher

12:45pm PDT

Bonus Beats 6 Both Room A+BSongs For Tony • Zhon Doe

1:00pm PDT

Shifting Cultural Memory: Explorations in Black Voice (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchMelissa A. Weber • Steven Shaviro • Skye Landgraf • Kyle DeCoste • Kimberly Mack Re / vision / ist History (Room B: Oscillator) Room B: OscillatorPaula Mejía • Andrea Warner • Erin MacLeod • Isis Semaj-Hall

2:15pm PDT

Bonus Beats 7 Both Room A+BMichelle Habell-Pallán • Alice Bag • Sabrina Song

2:30pm PDT

Pod Out the Jams: Podcasting and the Changing Mediums for Music Writing (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchOliver Wang • Sidney Madden • Jon Caramanica • Chris Molanphy • Puja Patel

3:45pm PDT

Bonus Beats 8 Both Room A+BDJ Natasha Diggs

4:00pm PDT

“Going, Going, Gone: The Future After Marvin’s Masterpiece” (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchRJ Smith • Natalie Hopkinson • Lynnée Denise • Mark Anthony Neal • Guthrie P. Ramsey • Shana L. Redmond