Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: David Grubbs

David Hesmondhalgh, "Sex, Music, Pleasure and Politics"

Barry Shank, "The Naïve Pop Body Politic: The Scandal of Innocence, the Power of Scandal"

David Thomas, "Out of The Closet Shock! David Thomas Reveals That He Is Keane !"

Venue: Level 3

Moderated by: Greil Marcus

Josh Kun, "If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends: Bawdy Jewish Broads of the 1960s and the Space of the Risque"

Karen Tongson, "Behind the Orange Curtain: Amusement and Queer Fantasy at "The K" and "The 9""

Inna Arzumanova, "Club Swirl: Dancing and Romancing in a Vision of Post-Racial America"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Jody Rosen

Lori Brooks, "Sex and Syncopation in the City: Race and the Bodily Economy of Ragtime"

Susan C. Cook, "Dance Mad: Tangos, Ragtime and the Descent into WWI"

Larry Hamberlin, "Scheming Young Ladies: Images of Female Musicians in Ragtime-Era Novelty Songs"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: John Rockwell

Stacy Allison, "Naked Voices and Musical Money Shots: Exploring the Encoded Sounds of Sexual Pleasure "

Alex Stimmel, "Dashed Against the Rock: Moaning, Music, Allure and Danger"

Trent Leipert, "Désir, Chanson, ''et bien d'autres choses encore'': Eroticism and Everyday Things in the Songs of Serge Gainsbourg, 1958-68."

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Margie Maynard

Maureen Mahon, "Be My Baby: The Spectacular Ronnie Spector"

Tina Majkowski, "Variations on Cher: Sonic Indigineities and the Hail of the Half-Breed Diva"

Lauren Onkey, ""Get it While You Can": Excess Janis Joplin"

Lucy O''Brien, "Damaged Divas (from Billie Holiday to Amy Winehouse...) "

Venue: Level 3

A sneak preview of Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport, followed by a discussion on this subject with the film's creator, Kembrew McLeod, and featured participants M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel of the pop-experimental electronic group Matmos.

Moderated by: Kembrew McLeod

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Charles Cross

Sarah Dougher, "Filling Up and Spilling Over: Where''s the Sex in Women''s Music?"

Eric Weisbard, "Is This Women''s Music? The Strange Case of the Format Adult Contemporary (née Middle of the Road)"

Tim Quirk, "Endlessly Horny for Wonder and Magic: How Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell Perfectly Captured the Pre-Pubescent American Id (and Nearly Ruined Me for Life)"

Tim Grierson, "How George Michael's "Father Figure" Made Me a Man"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Ari Y Kelman

Kevin Dettmar, "The Discrete Charms of the Bad Voice"

Ali Colleen Neff, ""Get Stupid, Go Dumb!": The "Bad Voice" of the Hyphy Movement"

Katherine Meizel, "Vox Populi, Vox Divo: Voicing Genre Politics in Popera"

Venue: JBL Theater

Trained in opera and Indian classical music, vocalist Asha Puthli's unlikely journey led her to a collaboration with Ornette Coleman on the album Science Fiction and ten cult solo albums, a groove cornucopia including the much sampled "Space Talk."

Moderated by: Jason King

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Tim Quirk

Sean Nelson, "Let's (Not) Get it On-- Or, "Fucking to Songs About Fucking and Other Uncomfortable Developments  in the Awkward Relationship Between What We're Going to Have to Just Agree to Call Indie Rock and Sexuality in the 1990s.""

Ann Powers, "On Gushing: Relocating Desire in Pop Criticism"

Seth L. Sanders, "Fanatical Doubt"

Venue: Level 3

Moderated by: Tavia Nyong''o

Patricia Vergara, "Funkeiras: Transgressing the Place of the Poor, Black, and Female in Rio de Janeiro"

Gwendolyn Arbaugh, "Arab-esque: Sex, Politics, and Coffee in the Nutcracker"

Daphne Brooks, "Black Electric Body Rock: Retrofitting the Black (Female) Dancing Body—from Tina Turner to Janelle Monae "

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Steven Shaviro

Richard Poplak, "SMS and the Video Vixen: How the Pop Body on Arabic Video-Clip Stations has Become a Vector for an Electronic Sexual Space"

Carol Vernallis, "Audiovisual Change: ''Yes We Can,'' Music Video and Viral Media in the Obama Campaign"

Kurt B. Reighley, "Papaya: Strange Fruit"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: David Sanjek

Amelia Abreu & Nathaniel Friedman, "You can't put your arms around a memory: Object fetish and the digital realm of fandom"

David Grubbs, "I Am a Recording. I Don't Age"

Holly Kruse, "The Disembodiment of Local Music? The Internet, Presence, and Music Scenes"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Jon Caramanica

Charles Kronengold, "Articulated and Disarticulated Love"

Carl Wilson, "T-Pain & The Real Girl: The Autoerotics of Autotune, Falsetto & Other (Un)Manly Modes of Oral Self-Gratification"

Daphne Carr, "Computer Love(r)s"

Venue: Level 3

This roundtable will talk about the gender issues that surround groupies, the groupie transaction, groupie-ism as discourse, and how groupies function in new technology-driven social networks.

Moderated by: Mikki Halpin

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Sean Fennessey

Tyina Steptoe, "Sex, Love & Money: The Economics of Hip Hop Desire"

Charles Hughes, "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"

Banning Eyre, "''If the Beat is Hot, Does it Really Matter Where I'm From?'' African Insurgency on the Hip Hop Narrative"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Josh Kun

Licia Fiol-Matta, "The Diva Ends/The Diva's Ends: Lucecita Benítez and the Late Colonial Politics of Voice in Puerto Rico"

Karin Ng, "Cantopop Takeover: Leslie Cheung and Hong Kong's Ambiguous Identity"

Karen Shimakawa, "Enka''s Black Ship"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Garnette Cadogan

Carlo Rotella, "The Song and Dance Before the Fight: The Art of the Ring Walk"

Georgia Christgau, "Dance with Me"

Dan Booth, ""The Last Dance": A Taxonomy"

Venue: Level 3

Moderated by: Karen Tongson

Jayna Brown, "Go Straight to Hell, Boys'': Bin Liner Frocks and Angry Virgins"

Drew Daniel, "Why Be Something You''re Not?: The Afterlives of Queer Minstrelsy"

Tavia Nyong''o, "Brown Punk Masochism: Kalup Linzy''s Musical Anticipations"

Venue: The Sunset, 5433 Ballard Avenue, Seattle

Presenter Reception 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Featuring delicious food and a chance to meet with fellow presenters in one of Seattle's premier concert venues. KEXP's Quilty 3000 will DJ.
Attendance is limited to Pop Conference presenters and their guests.

Pop Conference Concert 10:00 pm - Midnight
Featuring performances by some of this year's Pop Conference presenters. Performers include: Franklin Bruno, Sarah Dougher, David Grubbs, Matmos, Sean Nelson and David Thomas. KEXP DJ Quilty 3000 will end the night spinning dance sets on the Conference Theme "Dance Music Sex Romance."
Attendance is open to the public - $7 admission (free for Pop Conference presenters).