Venue: EMP|SFM Lobby

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Michaelangelo Matos

Garnette Cadogan, "Bob Marley and the Struggle Against Slavery"

Jason Toynbee, "Bob Marley and the Struggle for a Postcolonial World"

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, "Bob Marley and the African Freedom Struggle"

Venue: Level 3

Moderated by: Tim Quirk

Saul Austerlitz, "Anger is a Gift: Political Hip-Hop and Punk Rock's Mixed Legacy, and the W. Challenge"

Richard Gehr, "Anarchy in the AARP? Adult Contemporary Protest Music''s Silent Scream"

Dan Booth, "Phil Ochs as Elvis Presley: Gunfight at Carnegie Hall"

Anna Nekola & Bill Kirkpatrick, "Sammy Davis, Jr. vs. Juvenile Delinquency: Rock, Race, and the Record Industry"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Josh Kun

Roberto Avant-Mier, "Mariachi's Rock: Articulating Mariachis and Latino/a music to the history of U.S. popular music "

Jeffrey Govan, "'Latin Goes Ska: More Than a Two-Tone Look"

Gabriel Abaud, "Music and Exile: The Displaced Chilean Musician of the Post-Pinochet Generation"

Jorge Leal, "Yo vivo así, It's My Reality: How rock en español Started a Conversation Between U.S. Latino Youth and Their Latin American Counterparts"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Wendy Fonarow

David Novak, "Experiments with World Music, Vol. 2: The Sublime Frequencies of Cultural Difference"

Roshanak Kheshti, "Affect Industry: Systematizing Pleasure in Listening at a World Beat Record Company"

John Vallier, "Ethnomusicology''s Missionary Position: Refiguring Pop Music into Proselytizing Music"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Douglas Wolk

Franklin Bruno, "Nobody Who Was Anybody: How to Listen to ''Ballad For Americans.''"

Robert Christgau, "Waiting on the World to Change"

Rachel Devitt, "Green Card Blues: Popular Music, Passing, and Marriages of Convenience, or How to Pick the Perfect Song for Your Undocumented Girlfriend''s Wedding to Your Gay Best Friend"

Katherine Meizel, "God and Country: Civil Religion and Popular Music in America"

Venue: Level 3

Moderated by: Oliver Wang

Jalylah Burrell, "''No Time For Segregatin'': African-American Colorism in Pop Music"

Wilfredo Gomez, "Mas Negro Que Los Negros: Bordering Blackness and the Politics of the Imagination"

Lauren Onkey, "''No Carnival in Britain'': Black Immigration and the Rise of Rock & Blues in 1950s England"

Peter Scholtes, "Hi Yo Silver, Purple Rain: The Color of Minneapolis Rock and Roll, From Integrated Bands to Segregated Clubs"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Louie Perez

Carolina González, "Neo-jíbaros and Back-to-the-Futurists: Rooting for a Third Way"

Jim Mendiola, "Girl in a Coma: Straight Outta Tejas. And England. And All Points In Between"

Abraham Gómez-Delgado, "What Kind of Puerto Rican Are You? Confessions of a Mutant"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Christopher Dunn

Raymond Zhong, "I Don't Speak Swedish, But I Speak Global"

Joe Mabel, "Politics and Music in Romania: Three Bands Navigate the ''Transition''"

George De Stefano, "21st Century ''WOPs'': Roy Paci, Raiz, and the Cultural Politics of Migration"

Ruth Ellen Gruber, "Sturm, Twang, and Sauerkraut Cowboys: Country Music and Wild West Spaces in Europe"

Venue: JBL Theater

Organizations that blend activism with youth culture are popping up everywhere as the new model for youth engagement, civic participation, and community development. This roundtable will offer a snapshot from along the West Coast. With Kevin Erickson, Department of Safety, Anacortes, WA; Chris Wiltsee, Youth Movement Records, Oakland, CA; Ana Maria Gallegos y Reinhardt; and Joshua Powell.

Moderated by: Shannon Stewart

Venue: Learning Labs

This roundtable discussion features women working in various fields sharing their experiences of trying to integrate feminist politics into their work. All conference participants are welcome, but outreach to women attendees will, we hope, create a "safe space" for discussing these issues within the Pop Conference.

Moderated by: Ann Powers, Daphne Carr

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Joshua Clover

Kyra D. Gaunt, "Downloading P2P Networks & Uploading Underground Hip-Hop (How Spain, Russia, J Dilla and Garage Band Inspired a Brooklyn Brother to Produce)"

Jesse Fuchs, "The Record That Eats Itself: Form, Content, and Subversive Recursion"

Debra Rae Cohen & Michael Coyle, "'The Only Band that Matters'?: Citation as Struggle in the Punk Cover Song"

Venue: Level 3

Moderated by: Banning Eyre

Susan Shepler, "''Now di Pa de Pak en Go'' : Young Sierra Leoneans' Musical Interventions in Post-War Politics"

Jeffrey Callen, "Avenging Angels: Creating a Space for Alternative Music in Morocco"

Meghan Drury Askins, "Who's the Terrorist? - Identity, Rage, and the Making of Israeli/Palestinian Hip Hop"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Holly George-Warren

Georgia Christgau, "Just Like a Woman: The Rock Criticism of Ellen Willis"

Elizabeth Keenan, "Third Wave Feminism, the War in Iraq, and the Musical Politics of the American Middle Class"

Maria V. Johnson, "''Who's Gonna Be the Vessel?'' Blues Women Performing Alternative Community"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Nate Chinen

Barry Long, "''We Insist!'' Popular Music, the Civil Rights Movement, and King's ''Urgency of Now''"

Mike McGonigal, "Freedom Highway"

Howard Mandel, "Jazz Beyond Jazz: Breakthroughs and Coalitions"

Ross Lipman, "Mingus, Cassavetes, and the Politics of Improv"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Kandia Crazy Horse

Tavia Nyong''o, "Musical Miscegenation?"

Camara Holloway, "Wait a Minute, Wait a Minute. Where All the Black Folk At?"

Greg Tate, "Black Rockers vs. Blackies Who Rock, or The Difference between Race and Music"

Daphne A. Brooks, "Walk Hard: The Ballad of Amy Winehouse"

Venue: Level 3

Moderated by: Franklin Bruno

Edwin Hill, "Les/sons Racailles: Framing French Hip Hop and the 2005/2007 Ghetto Revolts"

Charles Mudede, "Bass Event: The Poet of the Brixton Riots"

Joshua Clover, "Terrorflu, or Where in the World is M.I.A.?"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: David Sanjek

Regina Arnold, "Rock Crowds and Power: The Early Years."

John Street, "Performing Politics: from Rock Against Racism to Live8"

Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman, "''Lollapalooza Every Day, Every Year'': Music, Multiculturalism, and Whiteness in the 1990s"

Laurel Westrup, "When Subcultures Collide: The New Travellers at Glastonbury 1978-2005"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Garnette Cadogan

Kevin Howes, "Jamaica To Toronto: From Yard To Yonge"

Stacy J. Lettman, "Cosmic Irony and Freedom for ''I and I'': Reggae Music and the Impact of American Neo-Colonization"

Erin MacLeod, "Ring the Alarm: Is it Game Over for the Soundclash?"

Charlie Bertsch & Joel Schalit, "Exhuming the Future: Burial and the Politics of Dub"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Joe Schloss

Jonathan Pieslak, "For Duty, Honor, and Country: The Recruiting Music of the US Military and the Islamic State in Iraq"

Lisa Gilman, "American Soldiers' Ipods: Layers of Identity and Situated Listening in Iraq"

J. Martin Daughtry, "A Symphony of Bullets': Toward a Sonic Ethnography of Contemporary Baghdad"

Venue: Level 3

Moderated by: Shannon Dudley

Peter Garcia, "La Voz de la Cantante: Latina Musical Performance as Chicana Political Interventions"

Brenda M. Romero, "Expanding the Borders of Protest: Victor Heredia''s ''Sobreviviendo'' and YouTube."

Arturo J. Aldama, "No Somos mojados/ Somos Ameríca: Voicing Immigrants in Latina/o Musics"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Elijah Wald

Domenic Priore, "Riot on the Sunset Strip: Activism, Dropping Out, and the Marginalization of Social Consciousness"

David Sanjek, "Faux Real: The Soft Cultural Revolution in 1960s Los Angeles"

Peter La Chapelle, "Big City Ways: The Battle Over Country Music Politics in Los Angeles"