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All the white people will be clapping their hands on the four when they get a load of the theme for next year's Experience Music Project Pop Conference, where music writers from academia, journalism, blogs, and other places get together to collectively obsess over pop music. "Dance, Music, Sex, Romance: Pop and the Body Politic" is about as far to the other side as you can get from last year's explicitly political focus, and ought to inject a little blood into things after this past April's rewarding but fairly dry sessions. Below the jump, conference organizer Eric Weisbard fleshes things out a bit: More »

The Experience Music Project has sounded the trumpets to annnounce its call for papers for its seventh annual spring Pop Conference, a weekend in lovely Seattle where a bunch of people who spend more time thinking about music than geopolitics or their loved ones, from across the academic-to-blogger range of interests and experience, come together to shoot the shit for what might possibly be the most fun it's possible to have sitting around listening to people read. Past years have included presentations^* from both of your current Idolators, your former Idolator Mr. Raftery, and third Idolator (in the "fifth Beatle" sense) Mr. Matos. Even if you're not so much into the public speaking thing, I highly recommend it as a music geek's getaway. The full proposal is after the jump: More »