Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Elijah Wald

Franklin Bruno, "''Stone Cold Dead in de Market'': Exploiting the Voice in Post-War Calypso"

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, "Jamaica Farewell: Belafonte''s Caribbean and the (Political) Erotics of US Pop"

Rod Hernandez, "Love Songs in Other Tongues: Nat King Cole's Latin Music—from Hollywood to Hong Kong"

Holly George-Warren, "Frisky and Fringed: How Wanda Jackson's Oomph Kept Her Off the Opry Stage"

Venue: Level 3

Moderated by: Robert Christgau

J.D. Considine, "Standing on the Verge of Getting It On: Foreplay, Anticipation, and the Musicology of '70s Funk"

Christopher Doll, "(Dis)satisfaction as Song: Blues, Jazz, Rock, and the Dawn of the Sexual Chord Progression"

Tomas Palermo & Ron Nachmann, "Lovers Rock: Class and Romance Inna Di Dance"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Maureen Mahon

Sherrie Tucker, "''Together But Unequal'': Democratic Dancing at the Hollywood Canteen"

Anthony Macías, "''Looser Hips'': Dance, Democracy, and Chicanos in U.S. Pop Culture"

Michelle Habell-Pallán, "''Death to Racism and Punk Rock Revisionism'': Alice Bag''s Vexing Voice and The Unlikely Influence of Cancíon Ranchera on Hollywood Punk Gesture and Vocalizing"

Jim Mendiola, "Fold, Spindle, and Videotape: A Deconstruction and World Premier Presentation of a Dance-based, Raza-informed Music Video"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Alexandra Vazquez

Chelsea Adewunmi & Greg Londe, "‘This is for the thousand, thousand Black Back-Ups’: Searching for (Lisa) Fischer and the "Discovery" of Tina Turner"

Patty Jeehyun Ahn, "Hard-Hitting Moves: Fly Girls and Unforgotten Bodies "

Judith Casselberry, "Liz McComb and Pentecostal Performance Strategies"

Van Truong, "Lost and Found: Re-Covering Loss in Migrant Sad Songs"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Oliver Wang

Robert Fink, "Ain't That…Peculiar? Selling Masochism at Motown, 1962-1969"

Greil Marcus, "The Songs Left Out of "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency"

David Cantwell, "My Mother Wants a Man with a Slow Hand, or I Think Conway Twitty Might Be My Dad: A Not Entirely Disinterested History of Sweet, Sweet Country Lovin'"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Douglas Wolk

Josh Langhoff, "Hearing Babylon Two Ways (and Hearing Babylon Threeways)"

Leonard Pierce, "Women of Dark Desires:  The Female Presence in Black Metal"

Mike McGonigal, "Stained Panties & Hoarse Metaphors: Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers'' Performance of "Nearer My God to Thee" at the Great Shrine Auditorium Concert in Los Angeles, CA in 1955"

Venue: Learning Labs

In a pop scene with room for both transgendered divo Antony Hegarty and inexhaustible man-izer Britney Spears, nontraditional displays of sexuality are almost normative. If "deviance" or "symbolic rebellion" are devalued as political acts as they enter mainstream culture, what role should feminism play in reanimating conversation on the subject? How do you continue to make these subjects meaningful within the context of your teaching, writing, artistic production and performance, or other work? This discussion is open to all, but also serves as a way for feminist conference participants to meet and create connections.

Moderated by: Daphne Carr, Sarah Dougher, Ann Powers

Venue: Level 3

This panel brings together scholars and participants for performances and a roundtable discussion focused on the fate of the sexual body in electronic dance music (EDM) culture. The participants see performance as a mode of scholarly inquiry, and will exhibit through performance a critique of the relationship between technology and the body, focusing primarily on the role of the DJ in EDM culture. The performances are meant to provoke questions and controversies that will animate the ensuing discussion.

Moderated by: Bernardo Alexander Attias

Venue: JBL Theater

Augusta Palmer will present an excerpt from The Hand of Fatima, her new film about her father, Robert Palmer, a musician who jammed with Ornette Coleman and the Rolling Stones, the author of Deep Blues, and the first pop editor at the New York Times. His pathbreaking work will be celebrated in a collection edited by Anthony DeCurtis and due out later this year. The Hand of Fatima views Palmer through the lens of his love affair with The Master Musicians of Jajouka.

Moderated by: Augusta Palmer

Augusta Palmer, "The Hand of Fatima: A Family Road Trip Through Rock History to the Square Root of the Blues "

Venue: JBL Theater

Reggaetón and especially perreo, the genre's doggystyle dance, has been accused of facilitating corruption. This discussion, keyed to a new book, links sympathetic and critical observers from the humanities and social sciences, visual artists and genre performers, and a perspective from Jamaica.

Moderated by: Alexandra Vazquez

Wayne Marshall, "¡Reggeatón! Perreo and Beyond"

Raquel Rivera, "¡Reggeatón! Perreo and Beyond"

Alexandra Vazquez, "¡Reggeatón! Perreo and Beyond"

Venue: Level 3

Moderated by: Diane Pecknold

Amanda Villepastour, "No Clause 28 and the Coming Out of Boy George"

David Scott, "Gay for Play: The Love that Dares not Speak its Name Certainly Does Sell Records"

Fred Maus, "We Were at the Beach"

Graham Raulerson, "The Jocker and the Hoosier Boy: The Politics of Bowdlerization in ''The Big Rock Candy Mountain''"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Nate Chinen

Charlie Bertsch, "Sesame Street Fever: Disco Off the Beaten Track"

Michaelangelo Matos, "''House Is a Feeling'': Chuck Roberts and Dance Music's National Anthem"

Douglas Wolk, "My Other Body Is a Temple"

John Rockwell, "Partnered Dance vs. Solo Self-Expression in the Rock & Roll Era"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Carlo Rotella

David Stowe & Jim Jabara, "No Sympathy for the Devil: God, Pop and the Rise of the Religious Right"

Tom Smucker, "Pentecost, Pop Music, and Political Power"

Ari Y Kelman, "What Happens When Worship Rocks?"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Holly George-Warren

Barry Mazor, "Jimmie Rodgers and Roots Pop Physicality Before Rock"

Ed Comentale, "Readymade Elvis"

Barbara Ching, "This Body You are Hauling: Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin, and the Body of Work"

Diane Pecknold, "Color Me Country:  Spectacles of Race and Gender in Post-Civil Rights Country Music"

Venue: Level 3

Moderated by: Robert Fink

Tamara Palmer, "Trick or Treat: Sexual Entitlement in the Dirty South"

Jon Caramanica & Sean Fennessey, "Crank That? Yahhh! Soulja Boy Wants You To Dance Forever"

Holly Bass, "Pay Purview"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Charles Kronengold

Elijah Wald, "Swing Hurts Dance Biz, Thrills Critics"

Martin Johnson, "Is Jazz Too Sane to leave the Brain?"

Garnette Cadogan, "Ska as the "Jamaican Twist""

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Michelle Habell-Pallán

Christine Bacareza Balance, ""The Age of the Crew: ABDC and its Dance Dance Revolution""

Ann Shaffer, "''You Know How I Like It, Baby—Straight Hood'': Street Cred, Sex, and the American Teen Dance Fight Movie"

Priscilla Peña Ovalle, "Flashdance: The Erotic Video-track of Dance and Racial Ambiguity"

Venue: Sky Church

The queen of the power ballad, Diane Warren has written more than 100 hit songs spanning the pop genres, from Laura Branigan's "Solitaire" in 1983 to Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," LeAnn Rimes's "How Do I Live," Toni Braxton's "Unbreak My Heart," and Jennifer Hudson's "You Pulled Me Through" at this year's Grammy Awards. A rare look back with one of music's most dominant presences.

Moderated by: Ann Powers