Artist Relations and the Power of the Interview w/ Jason King and Liz Pelly (Room A: Sky Church)With support from
Critical Minded, the Pop Convergence is expanding our mentorship offerings with seven hour-long sessions designed to assist up-and-coming music writers from underrepresented and marginalized communities.
All sessions are now filled for direct participants but this is a public session that audience members are allowed into.Session Description: Anyone who aspires to write music journalism needs to sharpen their skills at conducting artist interviews; the artist interview is also a core feature of music curation for podcasts, music documentaries, and live events. Writers are often tasked with artist relations, which can include finding, pitching and recruiting musicians for features, and for a wide range of curated projects and events—that wrangling is a skill on its own. In this workshop, writers and scholars
Jason King and
Liz Pelly discuss how writers can conduct effective interviews through by becoming skilled at asking savvy questions and by becoming effective listeners; and they’ll address best practices in artist relations that every music writer should master.
