Pop Conference 2018

Lyn Ellen Burkett is Assistant Professor of Music at Western Carolina University. She holds a Ph.D. in music theory from Indiana University and has taught courses including analysis of rock music and women and popular music in the U.S. An accomplished pianist, she specializes in performing... Read More →

Kyle DeCoste is a PhD student in ethnomusicology at Columbia University. He holds an MA from Tulane University where he worked with the Original Pinettes Brass Band to apply an intersectional, black feminist lens to brass band performance in New Orleans. His articles appear in Ethnomusicology... Read More →

Tom Ewing is a researcher, writer and critic based near London, whose day job is in market research. He has presented at PopCon about the British charts and about how Eurovision caused Brexit. In 1986 he won a scholarship to Winchester College, founded in 1382 and called “uniquely... Read More →

Jacqueline Warwick is the author of Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s (Routledge 2007) and co-editor, with Alison Adrian, of Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music (Routledge 2016). She is professor of musicology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia... Read More →