Missy Elliott and her greatness are the subjects of a panel Fri April 17 at 11:15 am.
The Pop Conference is the best thing that ever happened at the EMP. Influential music writers (and former EMP curators) Ann Powers and Eric Weisbard started and still organize this annual gathering, which attracts world-class critics, academics, industry types, collectors, musicians, and producers who come together for the sole purpose of talking about pop music.
That “talking” takes the primary form of 15- to 20-minute presentations based on papers, which the authors deliver (with varying degrees of performer panache) to rooms full of attentive and often argumentative fellow travelers. The conference never fails to be as messy and diverse as its subject, an art that covers a wide area of human culture…