2012 EMP Pop Conference

Marlon Bailey is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University. He earned his PhD in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. Currently, he is working on a book manuscript that expands his performance ethnographic study of Ballroom Culture, a Black and Latina/o queer culture in North America. Butch Queens up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit, is under contract with the University of Michigan Press.   Abstract...
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Denise Dalphond is a doctoral candidate in Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. She conducted ethnographic research on electronic music culture in Detroit from 2008-2010. Her dissertation, titled “Detroit Players: Wax, Tracks, and Soul in Electronic Music,” documents the thriving techno, house, and electro scenes in southeast Michigan, including the African American history of electronic music in Detroit and the Midwest.   Abstract: | | "Eclecticism in Detroit: Diverse...
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Rebekah Farrugia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Oakland University. Her book Beyond the Dance Floor: Female DJs, Technology and Electronic Dance Music will be published by Intellect Books in spring 2012.   Abstract: | | "'The Foundation' in Detroit: Challenging Conventional Ideologies about Sex and Gender in Hip Hop" Informed by ethnographic methods we examine a specific weekly hip hop event called “The Foundation” that has...
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Carleton S. Gholz is a critical media scholar currently teaching in Communication Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. He is presently adapting his dissertation on Detroit’s post-Motown music culture into a book. His article, “Maintaining Synk in Detroit” was published by the journal Dancecult in 2011. |   | Abstract: | | "Remembering Rita: Sound, Sexuality, and Memory" | | On a cool night this spring at Detroit’s Rainbow Room on East 8 Mile, about 100 people...
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