All events are scheduled for Mondays at 5pm ET.
Email Froyster@depaul.edu to be added to the series email list and get Zoom links.
Co-organizers: Kimberly Mack, Antonia Randolph, Francesca Royster, Gustavus Stadler, Eric Weisbard and Carl Wilson for
Journal of Popular Music Studies, IASPM-US, and the Pop Conference progress
January
1/8: Lynnée Denise with Imani Wilson, Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters (U of Texas Press)
1/16 Off
1/22: Nate Patrin with Michaelangelo Matos, The Needle and the Lens (University of Minnesota Press)
1/29: Off
February
2/5 Corey J. Miles, Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South (University Press of Mississippi) and Kemi Adeyemi, Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago (Duke University Press)
2/12: 33 ⅓ Day: Ben Apatoff, Body Count; Ma’Chell Duma, Cardi B’ ‘Invasion of Privacy’ (Bloomsbury 33 ⅓)
2/19: Chris Terry, Black Punk Now (Soft Skull) in conversation with James Spooner and Ed Marshall
2/26: Matthew Morrison, Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United
States (University of California Press) in conversation with Francesca Royster
March
3/4: Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta for Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor (Duke University Press)
3/11: Off
3/18: Marc Masters, High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape (University of North Carolina Press); Jerry Kranitz, Cassette Culture: Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet Age (Vinyl-on-Demand); Rob Drew, Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable (Duke University Press).
3/25: Darren Mueller, At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz (Duke University Press)
April
4/1: New Dimensions in Bluegrass Scholarship, ed. Lee Bidgood and Greg Reish, in progress-
4/8: Off
4/15: Elijah Wald, "Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories,” in progress.
4/22: Off
4/29: Off
May
5/6: Editors Christa Anne Bentley, Kate Galloway, and Paula Clare Harper, Taylor Swift: The Songs, The Stars, The Fans, in progress
5/13: John Shaw, “As We Cats Say”: Louis Armstrong, “St. Louis Blues,” and African American Modernism: Solidarity, Resistance, Pluralism, Signifying, in progress; in conversation with Francesca Royster -
5/20: Robert Dayton, Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam by Robert Dayton (Feral House). In conversation with Carl Wilson.
5/27: Off (Memorial Day, US)
June
6/3: Ann Powers, Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell (Dey Street Books)
Co-organizers
Kimberly Mack, krmack@illinois.edu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Antonia Randolph, antonia.randolph@unc.edu, University of North Carolina
Francesca Royster, froyster@depaul.edu, DePaul University
Gus Stadler, gstadler@haverford.edu, Haverford College
Eric Weisbard, eric.weisbard@gmail.com, University of Alabama
Carl Wilson, carlzoilus@gmail.com, Slate, Bookforum, and other venues