POPCON

PopConference (PopCon) is the leading music writing and popular music studies conference, bringing together the world’s leading scholars, journalists, writers and musicians for a quarter century.

Over two engaging days of panels, roundtables, keynotes, and performances, the 25th annual Pop Conference returns as the longest-running conference dedicated to scholarship and criticism in the field. This year’s program is chaired by noted scholar, educator and author Emily Lordi.

For the 25th annual Pop Conference, we invite proposals—from returning participants, first-timers, and all those in between—on the theme of Reflections: Looking Back, Listening Again, Still Writing. What does it mean to reflect on a catalog, a craft, a career? To write about music—in the past and the present? How do sounds, icons, histories, and legacies persist and shift? What is learned, and perhaps what is lost, by listening anew? We welcome a variety of approaches to such questions from writers, scholars, musicians, journalists, educators, promoters, historians, and culture makers across all disciplines.​

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