Pop Conference 2017

TwitterTyina Steptoe is a historian who writes and teaches about race, gender, and culture in the twentieth-century United States. Her book, Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City, was published by the University of California Press in 2015. She is currently working on a book... Read More →

David Gilbert is an assistant professor of U.S. history at Mars Hill University, in Asheville, North Carolina. His manuscript, The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and The Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace, was published by UNC Press in 2015 and has received the American... Read More →

Daniel Goldmark is Professor of Music and directs the Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University. He is series editor of the Oxford Music/Media Series, and is the author and/or editor of several books on animation, film, and music. Goldmark also worked as... Read More →

TwitterAmalia Mallard is the founder of The Laughing Archive, a repository and critical analysis of laughter in recorded music. With degrees in Political Science and Africana Studies, Ms. Mallard has sought meaningful ways to synthesize her interests in public policy and the arts. Her Maste... Read More →