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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

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

11:30am 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

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

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

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

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

11:30am PDT

Listening Queerly: Sounds of the Asian/American Diaspora in Flux (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchJuliana Chang • Runchao Liu • Douglas Ishii • Jewel Pereyra • Thea Quiray Tagle

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

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

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

11:00am PDT

Artist Relations and the Power of the Interview w/ Jason King and Liz Pelly (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchJason King • Liz Pelly

12:00pm PDT

Public Writing For Academics w/ Hua Hsu and Oliver Wang (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchOliver Wang • Hua Hsu

1:00pm PDT

How To Write a Hot Take…That Lasts w/ Ann Powers (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchAnn Powers

2:00pm PDT

Finding Your Voice: A Writing Workshop with Joan Morgan and NYU Students of The Collective Blive Recorded Music Chapter (Room A: Sky Church) Room A: Sky ChurchJoan Morgan