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The 2021 Pop Convergence: A Virtual Pop Conference, April 22-25th
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Friday, April 23 • 1:00pm - 2:15pm
Prince: Disrupting Notions of Blackness (Room A: Sky Church)

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Room A: Sky Church

Prince: Disrupting Notions of Blackness

Prince’s legacy as a Pop music icon is undisputed. His influence on popular culture is endless. In addition to being one of the greatest entertainers of all time, he was a groundbreaking songwriter, musician, arranger, composer, producer, and entrepreneur. Prince was also the ultimate disruptor. In a career that spanned five decades, Prince challenged systems, spaces, and sounds. In the process, he disrupted widely held notions about what it meant to be a black artist, activist, and, ultimately, a black person in a society that remains at odds with its own concepts of blackness, freedom, and equality. Through analysis of his music, lyrics, and individual acts of protest, this panel seeks to expand the discussion of Prince’s legacy by examining his role as a disruptor.

The paper order will be: Duff, Cummings, McInnis
Moderators
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Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos is the author of Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year (Hachette, 2020) and The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America (Dey Street, 2015) and contributes to The New Yorker. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Speakers
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De Angela L. Duff

Associate Vice Provost & Industry Professor, NYU
De Angela L. Duff is an Associate Vice Provost at New York University and Industry Professor in Integrated Design & Media (IDM) at NYU Tandon. She also curates music symposia as polished solid, including 2021's Prince #SexyMF30 Virtual Symposium (sexymf.polishedsolid.com) and the... Read More →
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Kamilah Cummings

Editor. Writer. Educator.
Purple, Lace, & Race: Prince and the Art of Protest In many ways, Prince’s entire career was a disruption. Although his contributions to racial discourse in the public sphere are often overlooked, from his music and films to his ever-evolving performance of identity, Prince artfully... Read More →
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C Liegh McInnis

Poet and Short Story Writer, Psychedelic Literature
The Art of Double Disruption: How Prince Worked in the Tradition of Jean Toomer and Richard Wright to Rebel Simultaneously against White Supremacy and Black Self-LimitationIn 1944, Harper and Brothers accepted Richard Wright's autobiography, American Hunger, for publication that fall... Read More →

Friday April 23, 2021 1:00pm - 2:15pm PDT
Room A: Sky Church
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