The Future of Pop: Big Questions Facing Popular Music Studies in the 21st Century

Wednesday, October 30, 2019—Thursday, October 31, 2019

Raytheon Amphitheater Egan Hall
120 Forsyth St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

The Future of Pop is a pre-conference symposium in advance of the American Musicological Society’s annual conference (Oct. 31 – Nov. 3), co-sponsored by the Popular Music Study Group, Amherst College, and Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media and Design. The symposium will take place Oct. 30–31, 2019, at Northeastern University’s campus in Boston, MA.

Excited to present 10/30, 2–4pm on Panel 2

Chair: Stephanie Shonekan

Shana Redmond, “Unsubscribe: The Stakes of Not Listening”

Christa Bentley, “Reassessing Women’s Voices in the Era of #MeToo”

Daphne Carr, “Can you feel the beat?: Resounding anti-black police brutality in black popular musics”