Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Charles Mudede

Cecil Brown, "Did She Do Us Wrong? Mae West as White Negress"

James Revell Carr, "Ethnomimesis and Authenticity on the American Popular Stage: Performing Hawaiians and Musical Exotica in the 19th Century"

W.T. Lhamon, Jr., "Bert Williams: The Cultural Work of Everybody's Parable Pump"

Marybeth Hamilton, "Dorothy Scarborough Gets Real "

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Philip Schuyler

Banning Eyre, "African Hip Hop: American Cultural Hegemony, or Local Revival?"

Katherine Meizel, "Superstars and Idols: National and Pan-Arab identity in the singing competition Superstar"

Nabeel Zuberi, "Brown Skin, Black Masks: UK Asians Process Black Atlantic Sounds"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Scott Prinzing

Phil Freeman, "It's Not Just a T-Shirt"

Amy Phillips, "Age Ain't Nothing But A Number "

Alexandra Richmond, "I Walked With a Juggalo: The music, the Message, the Makeup."

Joe Schloss, "It's Just Begun: Identity, History and B-boy Anthems"

Venue: JBL Theater

Robert Christgau, "That *Is* Rock & Roll, Isn''t It?: Searchin'' for the True Yakety Yak "

Gia Gordon, "Thighs with Tales to Tell: Carnality, Vulnerability and the Male Pop Persona of Scott Walker"

Guthrie Ramsey, Jr., ""Life''s A Bitch": Nas and Hip-Hop Authenticity Revisited"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Marybeth Hamilton

Kimberly Chun, "Passing, or Through a Glass Dorkily: Adventures in music writing as an Asian American woman from a small, tourist industry-driven island, transplanted in a San Francisco indie/undie-ground where girls will be boyish drag kings, boys will be girls and sport tighty-whiteys as outerwear, and art-noise comes with side of organic ginger-apple pancakes"

Evelyn McDonnell, "Hustlers' Paradise"

Ned Sublette, "Between Piety and Desire: Driving Through History in New Orleans"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Wayne Heisler

Jennifer Otter, "Robert Smith''s Gender Bending Kiss"

Steve Savage, "Mouth Noises, Lipsmacks, and Heavy Breathing"

Tamara Bock, "Not Just Another Mouth: Mick Jagger and the Big Red Lips."

Jon Bendich, "The Eroticization of the Primitive: Chano Pozo''s Big Lips & Bare Chest"

Venue: Level Three

Moderated by: Eric Fredericksen

Dario Robleto, "Masks as Transformation: A Conversation about Music and Art with Dario Robleto"

Colleen Sheehy, "Masks as Transformation: A Conversation about Music and Art with Dario Robleto"

Anna Maria Hong, "Po Lovers"

Lyall Bush, "Po Lovers"

Amy Schrader, "Po Lovers"

Jeannette Allée, "Po Lovers"

Mark Campos, "Po Lovers"

Rich Jensen, "Po Lovers"

James Nugent, "Po Lovers"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Mark Anthony Neal

Cynthia Fuchs, "Higher Anarchy: Performance, Identity, and Anti-war Hip-hop"

Hua Hsu, "''Going Oriental'': Duke Ellington Visits the East"

Jason King, "Don't Hate on Us, We're Fabulous: Notes on the History and Culture of Black Glam"

Kembrew McLeod, "Playas or Poseurs? Scholars or Journalist?"

Oliver Wang, "Playas or Poseurs? Scholars or Journalist?"

Venue: Level Three

Moderated by: Ki Gottberg

Holly Bass, "Diary of a Baby Diva: A One-Woman Show"

M.R. Daniel, "Meditations on This Black Girl''s Song"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Sasha Frere-Jones

Jon Caramanica, "Can Country and Hip-Hop Get Along?"

Robert Fink, "Pimp My Bach: The Strange Case of Classical Samples in Hip-Hop"

Robert Morast, "Smokin'' the Peace Pipe with Kurtis Blow"

Elijah Wald, "Shaved Heads and Cowboy Hats: Rappers with Accordions Hit South Central LA"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Paul de Barros

Joel Dinerstein, "Creating the Cool Mask: From Expression to Construction to Simulacra"

T.R. Johnson, "Albert Ayler In Vietnam – and Out"

Cotten Seiler, "The Carceral Country: Merle Haggard and the Mask of the Prisoner"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Matt McCarty

Carol Vernallis, "Music Video Directors, Songs and the Transformation of Cinema"

Morgan Neville, "Do Look Now: Music Documentaries and the Record of Rock"

Raymond Knapp, "Performing Divahood in The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show and Hedwig and the Angry Inch"

Venue: Level Three

Moderated by: Tim Quirk

Joe Gore, "Hit or Myth: Clubbo Records and Music Fiction"

Elise Malmberg, "Hit or Myth: Clubbo Records and Music Fiction"

David Grubbs, "Workshop Defended Against Its Admirers"

Carl Wilson, "Who Was That Masked Singer-Songwriter?"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Ann Powers

Evan Eisenberg, "Dust Mop Calypso"

Brian Goedde, "Fake Fan"

Lavinia Greenlaw, "Dressing Against: On Punk Rock and Not Being a Girl"

Jessica Hopper, "Louder Than Love: My Teen Grunge Make Believe"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Stephen Rumph

Nate Chinen, "Do Ya Think I''m Savvy? Rockers, Crooners, and the Hijacking of the Great American Songbook"

Holly George-Warren, "Singing Cowboy Charade"

Shana Goldin-Perschbacher, "''The Mouth's Cradle'': Intimacy with Alternative Feminine Identities in Björk's Medulla"

Lenny Kaye, "Prisoner of Love: The Croon as Sexual Transposition"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Judy Tsou

Apryl Berney, "Rock and Roll Finishing School: Sixties Girl Groups and Working Class Black Female Youth Culture in Post-War America"

Csaba Toth, "LolliPop Utopias: Girl Cultures, Clubbing, and Urban Space in Tokyo"

Hon-Lun Yang, "Performing Chineseness Girl-Group Style: Colonialism, Orientalism and the ''12 Girls Band''"

Michael Saffle, "Performing Chineseness Girl-Group Style: Colonialism, Orientalism and the ''12 Girls Band''"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Maureen Mahon

Daphne Brooks, "Guided By Voices: Some Thoughts About Raging Against Rockism"

Kandia Crazy Horse, "Unhappy Trails of the Redneck Negress"

Laina Dawes, "What Are YOU Doing Here? The Trials and Tribulations of a Black Female Metalhead"

Sonnet Retman, "Everywhere and Nowhere: Narrating Nona Hendryx's Elusive Career"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Lisa Wood

Paul Anderson, "Steely Dan and the Pleasures of Simulation"

Andrew Hultkrans, "The Boy with the Tongue in His Cheek"

Sean Nelson, "Sister, I''m A ____: Morrissey''s Artful Evasions"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Matt Ashare

Scott Barretta, "So Many Roads: Subcultures of Blues Revivalism"

Will Hermes, "Judas In Reverse: Unplugging As Transformation, Masquerade, Boomer Marketing Ploy"

Chris Nickson, "Black Music for a White World: The Bleaching of Reggae in Britain in the Early 1970s"

Keith Harris, "Popular Frontin': How Roots-Rock Cornballs Make the Rest of Us Lefties Look Clueless By Impersonating Outdated Stereotypes of Imaginary Poor Country Folk"