Mairead is on a panel with Greil Marcus at this weekend's Pop Con. Her talk is triply worthy of attendance right out of the box, first because it is on Karen Dalton and therefore sidesteps the Dylan/Springsteen/over-analyzed wank-rock vortex of music crit doom; second because it promises to recoup all of the interviews Mairead did for her Bust piece on Karen that didn't make the final version (Lenny Kaye, Joanna Newsom, et al.), as well as her thoughts on the curious dilemma that is trying to memorialize someone seemingly removed from yr own time and place and personal experience; and third, because it is Mairead. Not going with her to the conference this year is going to be weird--like the part of E.T. when Elliott goes to school while E.T. stays at home, and E.T. drinks beer and does crazy stuff, and Elliott feels it, too, because of their psychic connection, and kisses the girl and saves the frogs from being dissected in science class. Save the frogs, Mairead! Save the frogs!
Some other nifty writers will be at the Pop Con, too:
Simon Reynolds,“Just 4 U London: Place and Race in British Dance Culture from Rave to Grime”
Daphne Carr, Selling Sad: How Hot Topic Made the Mall (Safe for the) Miserable”
Douglas Wolk, "The Woman in the Back: Clydie King in the Shadow of Classic Rock”
Kara Jesella & Marisa Meltzer, "From Stupid Girls to Rebel Girls: Are Girl Power Anthems Saccharine-Flavored Sisterhood or a Political Force?”
Maura Johnston, “The Season Came To An End: Freestyle Brings Loneliness To A Crowded Dance Floor”
Michaelangelo Matos, "A Matter of Trustafarians: Behind the Bob Marley Poster on the Dorm Room Wall"
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2 comments:
O, I am totes saving frogs. I totes love you and yr trike and also I am saving Reese's Pieces, totes phoning home.
xx.
missed you this year - your jem paper was remembered fondly while we were drunkenly cabbing around on saturday night, sure indication that you must come back!!!
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