Pop Conference 2017

TwitterTim Quirk spent more than 10 years as the singer and lyricist for the punk-pop band Too Much Joy. He’s also been a regular contributor to Raygun and The San Francisco Chronicle and overseen the music programming teams for Rhapsody and Google Play. His critical essays have been published... Read More →

TwitterDamon Krukowski is a musician (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi) and writer. His first nonfiction book, The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World will be published on Record Store Day 2017 by The New Press (New York). He is the recipient of a 2015 Creative Capital... Read More →

Katherine Meizel is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University. She earned her doctorates in ethnomusicology and vocal performance at UCSB. Her book Idolized: Music, Media, and Identity in American Idol was published in 2011; she also wrote about Idol... Read More →

TwitterElena Razlogova is an Associate Professor of History at Concordia University. She is the author of The Listener's Voice: Early Radio and the American Public (2011) and co-editor of “Radical Histories in Digital Culture” issue of the Radical History Review (2013). Her chapter on freefo... Read More →