2010 Pop Conference Audio - Presentations
by EMP Museum
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Description
"The Pop Machine: Music + Technology" April 15-18, 2010 Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA The 2010 Pop Conference examined how pop’s contraptions have reflected, inflected and mediated musical history, exploring the conference theme of The Pop Machine: Music and Technology. The Pop Conference, launched in 2002, joins academics, critics, performers and dedicated fans in a rare common discussion. The conference was sponsored by the American Music Partnership of Seattle (EMP Museum, the University of Washington and the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and KEXP 90.3 FM), through a grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.
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ABCs and C-D-E-Fs: High School Music Programs and the Cultivation of Jazz in Jim Crow Houston | Instruments of Change in Jazz | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Analog Acoustics: Echoes of the Subject from Rin on the Rox to Glee | Analog-Digital Divides | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Analog Circuits, Digital Community: Boutique Effects Pedals as Convergence Culture | Analog-Digital Divides | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Analogue Sound of Digital Production: Dr. Dre's G-Funk in Post-Rebellion L.A. | Analog-Digital Divides | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Art and Social After(life): Jimi Hendrix and Hélio Oiticica | Avant Gardes | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Arthur Alexander, FAME Recording Studio, and a Blow Against Racism in Early-'60s Alabama | Studio Viewing | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Auto-Tune, No Homo: Music Technology and the Construction of Sexuality in Hip-hop | Vocalese | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bandung Holograms: Paul Robeson on Tape | Past.Text.Race.Sounds: The Black Voice Remix | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Beat Says It All: Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis and the Technological Development of a Sexual Identity in Janet Jackson's Control | Engineering | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beyond the Celestial Jukebox: The Future of Listening to Music | TMI | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Wave Rider: Cassette Tapes, Inverted Nostalgia, and the Creation of glo-fi | Retro Uses | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Black and White and Red Lipstick: The Problem With A Cappella - EXCERPT | Alterations | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Black Sonic Revivals: Cassidy and the Strange Samplin' of Nina Simone | Past.Text.Race.Sounds: The Black Voice Remix | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Blackberry Incident | Hip-Hop Layerings | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Curtis Jackson and the Jeweled Skull: Money, Murder and Upwards Mobility in 50 Cent's Penny Arcade | Hip-Hop Layerings | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'Dark Spaces and Empty Places': Ambient Reverb and the Meanings of British Post-Punk | Rock Meldings | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Devil's Trombones: How the Hunger for Louder, Bigger and Heavier Tone Influenced Instrument Design and Function, from Berli | Mad Scientists | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Diggin' in Mama and Baba's Crates: Records and the Diasporic Archive | Mastering the Past | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Before Digital: The Player-Piano and Its Analog Legacies | Early Days | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Digital Glossolalia of Todd Edwards and DJ Koze | Interrogating the Digital | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dime Piece | All Ears: Techniques for Critical Surrender | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'Don't Ever Buy Nothin' You Don't Dig': The Warner/Reprise Radio Spots, 1968-1972 | Retro Uses | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Duplicating the Singular: An Aura For the Digital Age | Vibrations | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Embrace the Martian': Hip Hop, Outer Space, and Post-Gangster Subjectivity | Hip-Hop Layerings | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Following Harry's Footsteps: Contemporary Strategies of Reissue and Reassessment of American | Mastering the Past | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Glass: Technology as Embodied Discourse in Hip Hop Engineering | Engineering | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Golly, Why Mali? Solving the Mystery of the Dominance of Malian Popular Music | New Africas | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hearing (Thinking) Digital People | Interrogating the Digital | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hipster Values: High Art Discourses and White Masculine Mastery in the Music of the Dirty Projectors | Engendering Technology | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Girls' Rock Camps use Music as a Tool for Empowerment, and why it Sometimes Doesn't Work | Engendering Technology | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I Know It’s Not All Y’all: Technology, Transmission, and Ron Artest's Rap Career | Hip-Hop Layerings | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Pikasso: Pat Metheny's Quest for the Perfect Machine | Mad Scientists | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jazz and the Politics of Recording | Documentation and Surveillance | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Jive Technologies of Jazz-Fusion: Charles Mingus's Use of Technology | Instruments of Change in Jazz | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Know Your Dancehall Grammar: From Deejaying to Dance | Localizing Tech | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Karaoke and Authenticity | Alterations | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Listener as Electronic Librarian | TMI | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Living In a Sonic Alterity: Exploring Black Identity with Auto-tune While Subverting Racialized Vocal Timbre | Vocalese | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Log Cabin Songs in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | Rural Electrification | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Looking at Down from Up: Blues from Blackface to Whiteface (or: All the Blues You Could Play By Now if Stanley Crouch was Your | Mastering the Past | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mapping the Translocal Taqwacore Social Networks via Digital Humanities | Identity Projects | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'The Microphone Has No Footlights': Al Jolson's Radio Days | Early Days | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Microwave DJs: Digital Technology and Contemporary Disc Jockey Practice | Analog-Digital Divides | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mix Tape: The Culture of Compilation | Mastering the Past | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Música Brasileira 2.0: Independent Brazilian Music Thriving Through New Social Technologies | Localizing Tech | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New Parlor Piano: Home Recording and the Return of the Amateur | Documentation and Surveillance | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New Scarcity | TMI | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nirvana and the Rise of the Northwest Underground | Lunch Demonstration | 2/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Not Your Daddy's Rumba Anymore: African Pop Melds into the American Musical Landscape | New Africas | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Open Tuning: Blind Tom, Human Phonography & Black (Metaphysical) Noise in the Age of Slavery | Early Days | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pandora.com, pop genres, and the question of "musical DNA" | Identity Projects | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Performing Vinyl | Retro Uses | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Phoning It In: A Digitized Lecture-Performance On the History of Music and the Telephone, by The Killer Apps | Cell Phones | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Phonographic Memories: Technologies of Listening in Filipino America | All Ears: Techniques for Critical Surrender | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Producing the Gender Gap: Male-Dominance in the Recording Studio | Engendering Technology | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Quiet Revolution: From the Walkman to the iPod, How Portability and Infinite Storage Have Changed the Way We Listen, and Wh | TMI | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Radio and the 'Mexican Regional' Audience | Localizing Tech | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Radio As Instrument: Shortwave Sound at the Roots of Sampling | Avant Gardes | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sarah Vaughan, Crossover and the Technology of Race | Vocalese | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Song May Be the Same But the Audience Isn't: The Impact of Mobile Communication Devices on Audiences at Live Music Performa | Cell Phones | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Selections from History's Jukebox: Rebuilding and Remixing the Berlin Wall | Past.Text.Race.Sounds: The Black Voice Remix | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Soul Vibrations | Vibrations | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Tale of Two Countries: The Impact of Smartphones and Online Radio on Listener Behavior and Corporate Strategies in the United | Cell Phones | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Techniques and Technology of Postwar Pop: Black Gospel Music on Main Street, U.S.A. in Sam Cooke's 'That's Heaven to Me' | Alterations | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There's No Other Superstar: On Lady Gaga, Disability, and the Technology of Stardom | Bent | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'To Be Black is To Be Funny': White Female 'Coon Shouters,' Comedic Song, and the Technological Production of the New Woman | Early Days | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Total Sonic Annihilation: The Loudest Sounds in New York and the Technoaesthetics of DIY | Rock Meldings | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Transformation of Kraftwerk: From 'Autobahn' to 'The Man-Machine' | Rock Meldings | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Trappin' in the "Best Place to Live": Rap and Resistance in the Gilded College Town | Identity Projects | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Try It Once More, With Feeling This Time': Cinematic Depictions of the Recording Studio | Studio Viewing | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Turn Your Radio On: How the Rural Electrification Act Changed Popular Music | Rural Electrification | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Violence of Publicity in the Age of Surveillance | Documentation and Surveillance | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Warhol as Recording Artist | Bent | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 73 Episodes |










